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CONSTITUTION-IV - ARTICLE IV LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (Article IV § 1...§ 54)

• Article IV § 1 - Legislative power.
• Article IV § 2 - Senators, number, term.
• Article IV § 3 - Representatives, number, term; contiguity of districts.
• Article IV § 4 - Annexation or merger with a city.
• Article IV § 5 - Island areas, contiguity.
• Article IV § 6 - Commission on legislative apportionment.
• Article IV § 7 - Legislators; qualifications, removal from district.
• Article IV § 8 - Ineligibility of government officers and employees.
• Article IV § 9 - Civil appointments, ineligibility of legislators.
• Article IV § 10 - Legislators and state officers, government contracts, conflict of interest.
• Article IV § 11 - Legislators privileged from civil arrest and civil process; limitation; questioning for speech in either house prohibited.
• Article IV § 12 - State officers compensation commission.
• Article IV § 13 - Legislature; time of convening, sine die adjournment, measures carried over.
• Article IV § 14 - Quorum; powers of less than quorum.
• Article IV § 15 - Legislative council.
• Article IV § 16 - Legislature; officers, rules of procedure, expulsion of members.
• Article IV § 17 - Committees; record of votes, public inspection, notice of hearings.
• Article IV § 18 - Journal of proceedings; record of votes, dissents.
• Article IV § 19 - Record of votes on elections and advice and consent.
• Article IV § 20 - Open meetings.
• Article IV § 21 - Adjournments, limitations.
• Article IV § 22 - Bills.
• Article IV § 23 - Style of laws.
• Article IV § 24 - Laws; object, title, amendments changing purpose.
• Article IV § 25 - Revision and amendment of laws; title references, publication of entire sections.
• Article IV § 26 - Bills; printing, possession, reading, vote on passage.
• Article IV § 27 - Laws, effective date.
• Article IV § 28 - Bills, subjects at special session.
• Article IV § 29 - Local or special acts.
• Article IV § 30 - Appropriations; local or private purposes.
• Article IV § 31 - General appropriation bills; priority, statement of estimated revenue.
• Article IV § 32 - Laws imposing taxes.
• Article IV § 33 - Bills passed; approval by governor or veto, reconsideration by legislature.
• Article IV § 34 - Bills, referendum.
• Article IV § 35 - Publication and distribution of laws and judicial decisions.
• Article IV § 36 - General revision of laws; compilation of laws.
• Article IV § 37 - Administrative rules, suspension by legislative committee.
• Article IV § 38 - Vacancies in office.
• Article IV § 39 - Continuity of government in emergencies.
• Article IV § 40 - Alcoholic beverages; age requirement; liquor control commission; excise tax; local option.
• Article IV § 41 - Lotteries.
• Article IV § 42 - Ports and port districts; incorporation, internal.
• Article IV § 43 - Bank and trust company laws.
• Article IV § 44 - Trial by jury in civil cases.
• Article IV § 45 - Indeterminate sentences.
• Article IV § 46 - Death penalty.
• Article IV § 47 - Chaplains in state institutions.
• Article IV § 48 - Disputes concerning public employees.
• Article IV § 49 - Hours and conditions of employment.
• Article IV § 50 - Atomic and new forms of energy.
• Article IV § 51 - Public health and general welfare.
• Article IV § 52 - Natural resources; conservation, pollution, impairment, destruction.
• Article IV § 53 - Auditor general; appointment, qualifications, term, removal, post audits.
• Article IV § 54 - Limitations on terms of office of state legislators.