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- Preliminary Material
- Main Text
- Part One The History of the Wyoming Constitution
- Part Two The Wyoming Constitution and Commentary
- Preliminary Material
- Preamble
- Art.I Declaration of Rights
- s.1 Power inherent in the people.
- s.2 Equality of all.
- s.3 Equal political rights.
- s.4 Security against search and seizure.
- s.5 Imprisonment for debt.
- s.6 Due process of law.
- s.7 No absolute, arbitrary power.
- s.8 Courts open to all; suits against state.
- s.9 Trial by jury inviolate.
- s.10 Right of accused to defend.
- s.11 Self-incrimination; jeopardy.
- s.12 Detaining witnesses.
- s.13 Indictment.
- s.14 Bail; cruel and unusual punishment.
- s.15 Penal code to be humane.
- s.16 Conduct of jails.
- s.17 Habeas corpus.
- s.18 Religious liberty.
- s.19 Appropriations for sectarian or religious societies or institutions prohibited.
- s.20 Freedom of speech and press; libel; truth a defense.
- s.21 Right of petition and peaceable assembly.
- s.22 Protection of labor.
- s.23 Education.
- s.24 Right to bear arms.
- s.25 Military subordinate to civil power; quartering soldiers.
- s.26 Treason.
- s.27 Elections free and equal.
- s.28 Taxation—Consent of people; uniformity and equality.
- s.29 Rights of aliens.
- s.30 Monopolies and perpetuities prohibited.
- s.31 Control of water.
- s.32 Eminent domain.
- s.33 Compensation for property taken.
- s.34 Uniform operation of general law.
- s.35 Ex post facto laws; impairing obligation of contracts.
- s.36 Rights not enumerated reserved to people.
- s.37 Constitution of the United States supreme law of land.
- s.38 Right of health care access.
- s.39 Opportunity to hunt, fish and trap.
- Art.II Distribution of Powers
- Art.III Legislative Department
- s.1 Composition and name of legislature.
- s.2 Members’ terms and qualifications.
- s.3 Legislative apportionment.
- s.4 [Repealed.]
- s.5 When members elected and terms begin.
- s.6 Duration of sessions; compensation of members.
- s.7 Time and place of sessions.
- s.8 Members disqualified for other office.
- s.9 Compensation not to be increased during term.
- s.10 Presiding officers; other officers; each house to judge of election and qualification of its members.
- s.11 Quorum.
- s.12 Rules, punishment and protection.
- s.13 Journals.
- s.14 Sessions to be open.
- s.15 Adjournment.
- s.16 Privilege of members.
- s.17 Power of impeachment; proceedings.
- s.18 Who may be impeached.
- s.19 Removal of officers not subject to impeachment.
- s.20 Laws to be passed by bill; alteration or amendment of bills.
- s.21 Enacting clause of law.
- s.22 Limitation on time for introducing bill of appropriation.
- s.23 Bill must go to committee.
- s.24 Bill to contain only one subject, which shall be expressed in title.
- s.25 Vote required to pass bill.
- s.26 How laws revised, amended or extended.
- s.27 Special and local laws prohibited.
- s.28 Signing of bills.
- s.29 Legislative employees.
- s.30 Extra compensation to public officers, etc., prohibited.
- s.31 Supplies for legislature and departments.
- s.32 Changing terms and salaries of public officers.
- s.33 Origin of revenue bills.
- s.34 General appropriation bills; other appropriations.
- s.35 Money expended only on appropriation.
- s.36 Prohibited appropriations.
- s.37 Delegation of power to perform municipal functions prohibited.
- s.38 Investment of trust funds.
- s.39 Aid to railroads prohibited.
- s.40 Debts to state or municipal corporation cannot be released unless otherwise prescribed by legislature.
- s.41 Resolutions—Approval or veto.
- s.42 Bribery of legislators and solicitation of bribery defined; expulsion of legislator for bribery or solicitation.
- s.43 Offers to bribe.
- s.44 Witnesses in bribery charges.
- s.45 Legislature shall define corrupt solicitation.
- s.46 Interested member shall not vote.
- Apportionment
- Initiative and Referendum
- Art.IV Executive Department
- s.1 Executive power vested in governor; term of governor.
- s.2 Qualifications of governor.
- s.3 Election of governor.
- s.4 Power and duties of governor generally.
- s.5 Pardoning power of governor.
- s.6 Acting governor.
- s.7 When governor may fill vacancies in office.
- s.8 Approval or veto of legislation by governor; passage over veto.
- s.9 Veto of items of appropriations.
- s.10 Bribery or coercion of or by governor.
- s.11 State officers—Election; qualifications; terms.
- s.12 State officers; power and duties.
- s.13 Salaries of governor and other elective state officers.
- s.14 Examination of accounts.
- s.15 Great seal of state.
- Art.V Judicial Department
- s.1 How judicial power vested.
- s.2 Supreme court generally; appellate jurisdiction.
- s.3 Supreme court generally; original jurisdiction.
- s.4 Supreme court generally; number, election of chief justice; quorum; vacancies in supreme court or district court; judicial nominating commission; terms; standing for retention in office.
- s.5 Voluntary retirement and compensation of justices and judges.
- s.6 Commission on judicial conduct and ethics.
- s.7 Supreme court generally; terms of court.
- s.8 Supreme court generally; qualifications of justices.
- s.9 Supreme court generally; clerk.
- s.10 District courts generally; jurisdiction.
- s.11 District courts generally; judges to hold court for each other.
- s.12 District courts generally; qualifications of judges.
- s.13 District courts generally; clerks.
- s.14 District courts generally; commissioners.
- s.15 Style of process.
- s.16 Supreme court judges limited to judicial duties.
- s.17 Salaries of judges of supreme and district courts.
- s.18 Appeals from district courts to supreme court.
- s.19 State divided into districts; election and terms of district judges.
- s.20 Districts defined.
- s.21 Increase in number of districts and judges.
- s.22 Jurisdiction of justices of the peace. [Repealed.]
- s.23 Appeals from justices’ courts. [Repealed.]
- s.24 Terms of district courts; attaching unorganized territory to organized counties.
- s.25 Judges of supreme and district courts shall not practice.
- s.26 Power to fix terms of court.
- s.27 Judges of supreme and district courts shall not hold other office.
- s.28 Appeals from boards of arbitration.
- s.29 Juvenile delinquency and domestic relations courts.
- Art.VI Suffrage and Elections
- s.1 Male and female citizens to enjoy equal rights.
- s.2 Qualifications of electors.
- s.3 Electors privileged from arrest.
- s.4 Exemption of electors from military duty.
- s.5 Electors must be citizens of United States.
- s.6 What persons excluded from franchise.
- s.7 When residence not lost by reason of absence.
- s.8 Soldiers stationed in state not considered residents.
- s.9 Educational qualifications of electors.
- s.10 Alien suffrage.
- s.11 Manner of holding elections.
- s.12 Registration of voters required.
- s.13 Purity of elections to be provided for.
- s.14 Election contests.
- s.15 Qualifications for office.
- s.16 When officers to hold over; suspension of officers.
- s.17 Time of holding general and special elections; when elected officers to enter upon duties.
- s.18 Method of selecting officers whose election is not provided for.
- s.19 Dual office holding.
- s.20 Oath of office; form.
- s.21 Oath of Office; how administered.
- s.22 Absent voter ballots, voting and registration.
- Art.VII Education; State Institutions; Promotion of Health and Morals; Public Buildings
- s.1 Legislature to provide for public schools.
- s.2 School revenues.
- s.3 Other sources of school revenues.
- s.4 Restriction in use of revenues.
- s.5 Fines and penalties to belong to public school fund.
- s.6 State to keep school funds; investment.
- s.7 Application of school funds.
- s.8 Distribution of school funds.
- s.9 Taxation for schools.
- s.10 No discrimination between pupils.
- s.11 Textbooks.
- s.12 Sectarianism prohibited.
- s.13 Land commissioners. [Superseded.]
- s.14 Supervision of schools entrusted to state superintendent of public instruction.
- s.15 Establishment of university confirmed.
- s.16 Tuition fee.
- s.17 Government of university.
- s.18 Establishment; supervision by state board of charities and reform.
- s.19 Territorial institutions pass to state.
- s.20 Duty of legislature to protect and promote health and morality of people.
- s.21 Buildings and property of territory pass to state.
- s.22 Construction and supervision.
- s.23 Permanent location.
- Art.VIII Irrigation and Water Rights
- Art.IX Mines and Mining
- Art.X Corporations
- s.1 Creation.
- s.2 Control by state.
- s.3 Forfeited charters. [Executed.]
- s.4 Damages for personal injuries or death; worker’s compensation.
- s.5 Acceptance of constitution.
- s.6 Engaging in more than one line of business.
- s.7 What corporations are common carriers.
- s.8 Trusts prohibited.
- s.9 Eminent domain.
- s.10 Mutual and co-operative associations.
- s.11 Powers and rights of railroads.
- s.12 Discrimination by railroads and telegraph lines forbidden.
- s.13 Railroads to make annual reports to state auditor.
- s.14 Eminent domain.
- s.15 Aid to railroads and telegraph lines prohibited.
- s.16 Acceptance of constitution by existing railroad, transportation and telegraph companies.
- s.17 Rights of telegraph companies.
- s.18 Foreign railroad or telegraph company must have agent for service of process.
- s.19 Location of depots.
- Art.XI Boundaries
- Art.XII County Organization
- Art.XIII Municipal Corporations
- s.1 Incorporation; alteration of boundaries; merger; consolidation; dissolution; determination of local affairs; classification; referendum; and liberal construction.
- s.2 Consent of electors necessary.
- s.3 Restriction on powers to levy taxes and contract debts.
- s.4 Franchises.
- s.5 Acquisition of water rights.
- Art.XIV Public Officers
- Art.XV Taxation and Revenue
- s.1 Assessment of lands and improvements thereon.
- s.2 Assessment of coal lands.
- s.3 Taxation of mines and mining claims.
- s.4 State levy limited.
- s.5 County levies limited.
- s.6 City levies limited.
- s.7 Depositories for public moneys.
- s.8 Profit making from public funds prohibited.
- s.9 Legislature to provide for state board of equalization.
- s.10 Duties of state board of equalization.
- s.11 Uniformity of assessment required.
- s.12 Exemptions from taxation.
- s.13 Tax must be authorized by law; law to state object.
- s.14 Surrender of taxing power prohibited.
- s.15 State tax for support of public schools.
- s.16 Disposition of fees, excises and license taxes on vehicles and gasoline.
- s.17 County levy for support and maintenance of public schools.
- s.18 Full tax credit allowed against any liability arising from a tax on income.
- s.19 Mineral excise tax; distribution.
- s.20 Higher education trust funds; investments; earnings.
- Art.XVI Public Indebtedness
- s.1 Limitation on state debt.
- s.2 Creation of state debt in excess of taxes for current year.
- s.3 Limitation on county debt.
- s.4 Creation of county or municipal debt in excess of taxes for current year.
- s.5 Limitation on municipal, county or school district debt.
- s.6 Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement.
- s.7 Payments of public money.
- s.8 Endorsements required on bonds and other evidences of indebtedness.
- s.9 Construction and improvement of public roads and highways.
- s.10 Construction and improvement of works for conservation and utilization of water.
- s.11 Construction, maintenance and improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities.
- s.12 Economic development loan fund.
- s.13 Industrial and economic development; powers of counties and municipalities.
- Art.XVII State Militia
- Art.XVIII Public Lands and Donations
- Art.XIX Miscellaneous
- Art.XX Amendments
- Art.XXI Schedule
- s.1 Acquired rights continue.
- s.2 Territorial property vested in state.
- s.3 Territorial laws become state laws.
- s.4 Accrued fines go to state.
- s.5 State to sue on bonds and prosecute crimes.
- s.6 Territorial officers to hold over.
- s.7 Submission of constitution.
- s.8 When constitution takes effect.
- s.9 First state election—Time of holding; proclamation.
- s.10 First state election; duty of county commissioners; who may vote; conduct of election.
- s.11 First state election; board of canvassers.
- s.12 When officers shall qualify; oaths; bonds.
- s.13 First state legislature.
- s.14 Laws to be passed.
- s.15 Transfer of pending causes, records, and seal of courts.
- s.16 Court seals.
- s.17 Transfer of causes and records from probate courts to district courts.
- s.18 How legislature chosen.
- s.19 Duration of terms of territorial county and precinct officers.
- s.20 Terms of state officers first elected.
- s.21 Regular session of legislature following first session.
- s.22 Regular election following first session of legislature to be omitted.
- s.23 Why constitution framed.
- Ordinances
- Further Material
- [35.172.111.71]
- 35.172.111.71
