CONSTITUTION 
OF THE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA

[UNANNOTATED]

As amended through September 25, 2001



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Article 2, section 8
8.   A.  All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except that bail may be denied for:

   1.  capital offenses when the proof of guilt is evident, or the presumption thereof is great;
   2.  violent offenses;
   3.  offenses where the maximum sentence may be life imprisonment or life imprisonment without
parole;
   4.  felony offenses where the person charged with the offense has been convicted of two or more
felony offenses arising out of different transactions; and
   5.  controlled dangerous substances offenses where the maximum sentence may be at least ten (10)
years imprisonment.

   On all offenses specified in paragraphs 2 through 5 of this section, the proof of guilt must be evident,
or the presumption must be great, and it must be on the grounds that no condition of release would
assure the safety of the community or any person.

   B.  The provisions of this resolution shall become effective on July 1, 1989.

Amended November 8, 1988.

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Article 2, section 12-A
12-A.   Beginning January l, 1995 persons wanting to become a candidate for election to the United
States Congress from this State for a term beginning on or after January 1, 1995, shall be subject to the
following provisions:

   A.  Any person seeking to have his or her name placed on the ballot for election to the United States
House of Representatives shall be ineligible if , by the end of the then current term of office, that person
has served in that office for three (3) two-year terms.

   B.  Any person seeking to have his or her name placed on the ballot for election to the United States
Senate shall be ineligible if, by the end of the then current term of office, that person has served in that
office for two (2) six-year terms.

   C.  A person elected to serve as a member of the United States Congress shall be eligible to serve as
a Representative for a total of six (6) years and as a Senator for a total of twelve (12) years for a
maximum total of eighteen (18) years as a member of Congress from this State.

   D.  The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to or include:

   1.  The years served by any person as a member of the United States House of Representatives or as
a member of the United States Senate which began prior to the election at which this measure was
enacted.

   2.  The years served by a person who has been appointed to complete the remainder of a vacated
term.

   E.  The provisions of this Section shall not be construed so as to prevent casting a ballot for any
person regardless of the number of years previously served in the United States Congress by writing the
name of that person on the ballot, or from having such ballot counted or to prevent a person from
campaigning by means of a "write-in" campaign if that procedure is otherwise authorized in this
Constitution or by law.

New.  Added Sept. 20, 1994.

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Article 2, section 18
18.   A grand jury shall be composed of twelve (12) person, any nine (9) of whom concurring may find
an indictment or true bill.  A grand jury shall be convened upon the order of a district judge upon his
own motion; or such grand jury shall be ordered by a district judge upon the filing of a petition therefor
signed by qualified electors of the county equal to the number of signatures required to propose
legislation by a county by initiative petition as provided in Section 5 of Article V of the Oklahoma
Constitution, with the minimum number of required signature being five hundred (500) and the maximum
being five thousand (5,000); and further providing that in any calendar year in which a grand jury has
been convened pursuant to a petition therefor, then any subsequent petition filed during the same
calendar year shall require double the minimum number of signatures as were required hereunder for the
first petition; of such grand jury shall be ordered convened upon the filing of a verified application by the
Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma who shall have authority to conduct the grand jury in
investigating crimes which are alleged to have been committed in said county or involving multicounty
criminal activities; when so assembled such grand jury shall have power to inquire into and return
indictments for all character and grades of crime.  All other provisions of the Constitution or the laws of
this state in conflict with the provisions of this constitutional amendment are hereby expressly repealed.

   The Legislature shall enact laws to prevent corruption in making, filing, circulating and submitting
petitions calling for convening a grand jury.

New.  Added Nov. 5, 1996.

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Article 2, section 19
19.   The right of trial by jury shall be and remain inviolate, except in civil cases wherein the amount in
controversy does not exceed One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.0), or in criminal cases
wherein punishment for the offense charged is by fine only, not exceeding One Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($1,500.0).  Provided, however, that the Legislature may provide for jury trial in cases involving
lesser amounts.  Juries for the trial of civil cases, involving more than Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000.00), and felony criminal cases shall consist of twelve (12) persons.  All other juries shall
consist of six (6) persons.  However, in all cases the parties may agree on a lesser number of jurors
than provided herein.

   In all criminal cases where imprisonment for more than six (6) months is authorized the entire number
of jurors must concur to render a verdict.  In all other cases three-fourths ( ) of the whole number of
jurors concurring shall have power to render a verdict.  When a verdict is rendered by less than the
whole number of jurors, the verdict shall be signed by each juror concurring therein.

Amended August 28, 1990.

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Article 2, section 24
24.   Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation.  Just
compensation shall mean the value of the property taken, and in addition, any injury to any part of the
property not taken.  Any special and direct benefits to the part of the property not taken may be offset
only against any injury to the property not taken.  Such compensation shall be ascertained by a board
of commissioners of not less than three freeholders, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. 
Provided however, in no case shall the owner be required to make any payments should be benefits be
judged to exceed damages.  The commissioners shall not be appointed by any judge or court without
reasonable notice having been served upon all parties in interest.  The commissioners shall be selected
from the regular jury list of name prepared and made as the Legislature shall provide.  Any party
aggrieved shall have the right of appeal, without bond, and trial by jury in a court of record.  Until the
compensation shall be paid to the owner, or into court for the owner, the property shall into be
disturbed, or the proprietary rights of the owner divested.  When possession is take of property
condemned for any public use, the owner shall be entitled to the immediate receipt of the compensation
awarded, without prejudice to the right of either party to prosecute further proceedings for the judicial
determination of the sufficiency or insufficiency of such compensation.  The fee of land taken by
common carriers for right of way, without the consent of the owner, shall remain in such owner subject
only to the use for which it is taken.  In all cases of condemnation of private property for public or
private use, the determination of the character of the use shall be a judicial question.


Amended August 28, 1990.

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Article 2, section 34
34.   A.  To preserve and protect the rights of victims to justice and due process, and ensure that
victims are treated with fairness, respect and dignity, and are free from intimidation, harassment, or
abuse, throughout the criminal justice process, any victim or family member of a victim of a crime has
the right to know the status of the investigation and prosecution of the criminal case, including all
proceedings wherein a disposition of a case is likely to occur, and where plea negotiation may occur. 
The victim or family member of a victim of a crime has the right to know the location of the defendant
following an arrest, during a prosecution of the criminal case, 
during a sentence to probation or confinement, and when there is any release or escape of the
defendant from confinement.  The victim or family member of a victim of a crime has a right to be
present at any proceeding where the defendant has a right to be present, to be heard at any sentencing
or parole hearing, to be awarded restitution by the convicted person for damages or losses as
determined and ordered by the court, and to be informed by the state of the constitutional rights of the
victim.

   B.  An exercise of any right by a victim or family member of a victim or the failure to provide a victim
or family member of a victim any right granted by this section shall not be grounds for dismissing any
criminal proceeding or setting aside any conviction or sentence.

   C.  The Legislature, or the people by initiative or referendum, has the authority to enact substantive
and procedural laws to define, implement, preserve and protect the rights guaranteed to victims by this
section, including the authority to extend any of these rights to juvenile proceedings and if enacted by
the Legislature, youthful offender proceedings.

   D.  The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights for victims shall not be construed to deny or
disparage other rights granted by the legislature or retained by victims.

New.  Added November 5, 1996.

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Article 5, section 17-A.
17-A.   Any member of the Legislature who is elected to office after the effective date of this
amendment shall be eligible to serve no more than 12 years in the Oklahoma State Legislature.  Years
in Legislative office need not be consecutive and years of service in both the Senate and the House of
Representatives shall be added together and included in determining the total number of Legislative
years in office.  The years served by any member elected or appointed to serve less than a full
Legislative term to fill a vacancy in office shall not be included in the 12-year limitation set forth herein;
but no member who has completed 12 years in office shall thereafter be eligible to serve a partial term. 
Any member who is serving a Legislature term in office or who has been elected or appointed to serve
a term in office on the effective date hereof shall be entitled to complete his or her term and shall be
eligible to serve an additional 12 years thereafter.  This amendment shall be effective on the lst day of
the year following its adoption.

New.  Added September 18, 1990

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Article 5, section 26
26.   The Legislature shall meet in regular session at the seat of government at twelve o'clock noon on
the first Monday in February of each year and the regular session shall be finally adjourned sine die not
later than five o'clock p.m. on the last Friday in May of each year.

   The Legislature shall also meet in regular session at the seat of government on the First Tuesday after
the First Monday in January of each odd numbered year, beginning at twelve o'clock noon for the
purposes only of performing the duties as required by Section 5 of Article VI of the Constitution and
organizing pursuant to the provisions of this Article and shall recess no later than five o'clock p.m. of
that same day until the following first Monday in February of the same year, beginning at twelve o'clock
noon.

Amended March 14, 1989.

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   A.  All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.  The Senate may
propose amendments to revenue bills.

   B.  No revenue bill shall be passed during the five last days of the session.

   C.  Any revenue bill originating in the House of Representatives shall not become effective until it has
been referred to the people of the state at the next general election held throughout the state and shall
become effective and be in force when it has been approved by a majority of the votes cast on the
measure at such election and not otherwise, except as otherwise provided in subsection D of this
section.

   D.  Any revenue bill originating in the House of Representatives may become law without being
submitted to a vote of the people of the state if such bill receives the approval of three-fourths ( ) of
the membership of the House of Representatives and three-fourths ( ) of the membership of the Senate
and is submitted to the Governor for appropriate action.  Any such revenue bill shall not be subject to
the emergency measure provision authorized in Section 58 of this Article and shall not become effective
and be in force until ninety days after it has been approved by the Legislature, and acted on by the
Governor.

New.  Added March 10, 1992.

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Article 6, section 1
1.   A.  The Executive authority of the state shall be vested in a Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State, State Auditor and Inspector, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Commissioner of Labor, Commissioner of Insurance and other officers provided by
law and this Constitution, each of whom shall keep his office and public records, books and papers at
the seat of government, and shall perform such duties as may be designated in this Constitution or
prescribed by law.

   B.  The Secretary of State shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the consent of the Senate
for a term of four (4) years to run concurrently with the term of the Governor.

Amended November 8, 1988.

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Article 6, section 4
4.   The term of office of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Auditor and Inspector, Attorney
General, State Treasurer, Commissioner of Labor and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be four
(4) years from the second Monday of January next after their election.  The said officers shall be eligible
to immediately succeed themselves.  No person shall be elected Governor more than two times in
succession.

Amended Nov. 8, 1988.

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Article 6, section 10
10.   There is hereby created a Pardon and Parole Board to be composed of five members; three to be
appointed by the Governor; one by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; one by the Presiding Judge
of the Criminal Court of Appeals or its successor.  An attorney member of the Board shall be
prohibited from representing in the courts of this state persons charged with felony offenses.  The
appointed members shall hold their offices coterminous with that of the Governor and shall be
removable for cause only in the manner provided by law for elective officers not liable to impeachment. 
It shall be the duty of the Board to make an impartial investigation and study of applicants for
commutations, pardons or paroles, and by a majority vote make its recommendations to the Governor
of all deemed worthy of clemency.  Provided, the Pardon and Parole Board shall have no authority to
make recommendations regarding parole for convicts sentenced to death or sentenced to life
imprisonment without parole.
     The Governor shall have the power to grant, after conviction and after favorable
recommendation by a majority vote of the said Board, commutations, pardons and paroles for all
offenses, except cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations
as he may deem proper, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law.  Provided, the
Governor shall not have the power to grant paroles if a convict has been sentenced to death or
sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.  The Legislature shall have the authority to prescribe a
minimum mandatory period of confinement which must be served by a person prior to being eligible to
be considered for parole.  The Governor shall have power to grant after conviction, reprieves, or leaves
of absence not to exceed sixty (60) days without the action of said Board.
     He shall communicate to the Legislature, at each regular session, each case of reprieve,
commutation, parole or pardon, granted, stating the name of the convict, the crime of which he was
convicted, the date and place of conviction, and the date of commutation, pardon, parole and reprieve.

Amended August 23, 1994

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Article 6, section 25
25.   There is hereby created a Department of Mines, which shall be charged with the execution of all
laws now in force or which shall hereafter be passed in relation to mining activities and corporations
engaged in mining activities within the state.

Amended August 26, 1986.

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Article 6, section 26 repealed August 26, 1986.

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Article 9, section 14 repealed November 3, 1992.

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Article 9, section 18
   The Commission shall have the power and authority and be charged with the duty of supervising,
regulating and controlling all transportation and transmission companies doing business in this State, in
all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting
abuses and preventing unjust discrimination and extortion by such companies; and to that end the
Commission shall, from time to time, prescribe and enforce against such companies, in the manner
hereinafter authorized, such rates, charges, classifications of traffic, and rules and regulations, and shall
require them to establish and maintain all such public service, facilities, and conveniences as may be
reasonable and just, which said rates, charges classifications, rules, regulations, and requirements, the
Commission may, from time to time, alter or amend.  All rates, charges, classifications, rules and
regulations adopted, or acted upon, by any such company, inconsistent with those prescribed by the
commission, within the scope of its authority, shall be unlawful and void.  The commission shall also
have the right, at all times, to inspect the books and papers of all transportation and transmission
companies doing business in this State, and to require from such companies, from time to time, special
reports and statements, under oath, concerning their business; it shall keep itself fully informed of the
physical condition of all the railroads of the State, as to the manner in which they are operated, with
reference to the security and accommodation of the public, and shall, from time to time, make and
enforce such requirements, rules and regulations as may be necessary to prevent unjust or unreasonable
discrimination and extortion by any transportation or transmission company in favor of, or against any
person, locality, community, connecting line, or kind of traffic, in the matter of car service, train or boat
schedule, efficiency of transportation, transmission, or otherwise, in connection with the public duties of
such company.  Before the Commission shall prescribe or fix any rate, charge or classification of traffic,
and before it shall make any order, rule, regulation, or requirement directed against any one or more
companies by name, the company or companies to be affected by such rate, charge, classification,
order, rule, regulation, or requirement, shall first be given, by the Commission, at least ten days' notice
of the time and place, when and where the contemplated action in the premises will be considered and
disposed of, and shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to introduce evidence and to be heard
thereon, to the end that justice may be done, and shall have process to enforce the attendance of
witnesses; and before said Commission shall make or prescribe any general order, rule, regulation, or
requirement, not directed against any specific company or companies by name, the contemplated
general order, rule, regulation, or requirement shall first be published one time in substance in one or
more of the newspapers of general circulation published in the county in which the Capitol of this State
may be located, together with the notice of the time and place, when and where the Commission will
hear any objections which may be urged by any person interested, against the proposed general order,
rule, regulation, or requirement; and every such general order, rule, regulation, or requirement, made by
the Commission, shall be published at length, in the next annual report of the Commission.  The
authority of the Commission (subject to review on appeal as hereinafter provided) to prescribe rates,
charges, and classifications of traffic, for transportation and transmission companies, shall, subject to
regulation by law, be paramount; but its authority to prescribe any other rules, regulations or
requirements for corporations or other persons shall be subject to the superior authority of the
Legislature to legislate thereon by general laws: Provided, However, That nothing in this section shall
impair the rights which have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, conferred by law upon the
authorities of any city, town or county to prescribe rules, regulations, or rates of charges to be observed
by any public service corporation in connection with any services performed by it under a municipal or
county franchise granted by such city, town, or county, so far as such services may be wholly within the
limits of the city, town, or county granting the franchise.  Upon the request of the parties interested, it
shall be the duty of the Commission, as far as possible, to effect, by mediation, the adjustment of claims,
and the settlement of controversies, between transportation or transmission companies and their patrons
or employees.

Amended by Laws 1994, c. 315,  17, eff. July l, 1994.
This section also amended regularly by Laws.  Though the actual text of this section changes only on the
date mentioned above, the following laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 2000, c. 207 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  131] be an amendment
to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of
Oklahoma."

 Section 2 of Laws 2000, c. 44 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.109] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma
Constitution, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX, of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Section 11 of Laws, 1997, c. 408 provides:
"Pursuant to the authority vested in the Legislature by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, the Legislature hereby expressly declares that Sections 2,
3, 6, 7 and 9 of this act are an amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18, 28, and 34 inclusive
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alterations
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."
                   
Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [Title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."
                      
Section 1 of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an  amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be,  in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution.
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an  amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act are amendments to,
and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State
of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution
of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or inconsistencies, it is hereby
expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to and alterations of said
sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."
                                
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Article 9, section 18-A
18-A.   A.  The salary of Corporation Commissioners shall be set by the Legislature and may be
increased at any time during the term of their office.  The purpose of this provision is to assure that all
Corporation Commissioners are paid equal salaries for their service, without regard to the time of their
appointment or election.

   B.  The Corporation Commission shall organize by electing one of its members chairman and
appointing a secretary, whose salary shall be fixed by the Legislature.  A majority of said Commission
shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of the majority of said Commission shall be necessary to
decide any question.

Amended by Laws 1995, c. 328,  1, Eff. June 8, 1995.
This section also amended regularly by Laws.  Though the actual text of this section changes only on the
date mentioned above, the following laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."
         
Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:  
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Section 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution.

"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Section 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

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Article 9, section 19
19.   In all matters pertaining to the public visitation, regulation, or control of corporations, and within
the jurisdiction of the Commission, it shall have the powers and authority of a court of record, to
administer oaths, to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of papers, to punish for
contempt any person guilty of disrespectful or disorderly conduct in the presence of the Commission
while in session, and to enforce compliance with any of its lawful orders or requirements by adjudging,
and by enforcing its own appropriate process, against the delinquent or offending party or company
(after it shall have been first duly cited, proceeded against by due process of law before the
Commission sitting as a court, and afforded opportunity to introduce evidence and to be heard, as well
against the validity, justness, or reasonableness of the order or requirement alleged to have been
violated, as against the liability of the company for the alleged violation), such fines or other penalties as
may be prescribed or authorized by this Constitution or by law.  The Commission may be vested with
such additional powers, and charged with such other duties (not consistent with this Constitution) as
may be prescribed by law, in connection with the visitation, regulation, or control of corporations, or
with the prescribing and enforcing of rates and charges to be observed in the conduct of any business
where the State has the right to prescribe the rates and charges in connection therewith, or with the
assessment of the property of corporations, or the appraisement of their franchises, for taxation, or with
the investigation of the subject of taxation generally.  Any corporation failing or refusing to obey any
valid order or requirement of the Commission, within reasonable time, not less than ten days, as shall be
fixed in the order, may be fined by the Commission (proceeding by due process of law as aforesaid)
such sum, not exceeding five hundred dollars, as the Commission may deem proper, or such sum, in
excess of five hundred dollars, as may be prescribed or authorized by law; and each day's continuance
of such failure or refusal, after due service upon such corporation of the order or requirement of the
Commission, shall be a separate offense: Provided, That should the operation of such order or
requirement be suspended, pending any appeal therefrom, the period of such suspension shall not be
computed against the company in the matter of its liability to fines or penalties.

This section also amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The
following laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."
                            
Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."
                  
Section 1 of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution.
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act are amendments to,
and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State
of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of     
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 210 020.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1941 ***

Article 9, section 20
20.   From any action of the Corporation Commission prescribing rates, charges, services, practices,
rules or regulations of any public utility or public service corporation, or any individual, person, firm,
corporation, receiver or trustee engaged in the public utility business, an appeal may be taken by any
party affected, or by any person deeming himself aggrieved by any such action, or by the State, directly
to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, in the manner and in the same time in which appeals
may be taken to the Supreme Court from the District Courts, except that such an appeal shall be of
right, and the Supreme Court may provide by rule for proceedings in the matter of appeals in any
particular in which the existing rules of law are inapplicable.  If such appeal be taken by the public utility
or public service corporation affected by any such action, the State of Oklahoma shall be made the
appellee, but in other appeals hereunder, the public utility or public service corporation affected shall be
made the appellee.

   An appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission affecting the rates, charges, services,
practices, rules or regulations of public utilities, or public service corporation, shall be to the Supreme
Court only, and in all appeals to which the State is a party it shall be represented by the Attorney for
the Corporation Commission, and the Attorney General, or his duly authorized representatives.

   The Supreme Court's review of appealable orders of the Corporation Commission shall be judicial
only, and in all appeals involving an asserted violation of any right of the parties under the Constitution
of the United States of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, the Court shall exercise its own
independent judgment as to both the law and the facts.  In all other appeals from orders of the
Corporation Commission the review by the Supreme Court shall not extend further than to determine
whether the Commission has regularly pursued its authority, and whether the findings and conclusions of
the Commission are sustained by the law and substantial evidence.  Upon review, the Supreme Court
shall enter judgment, either affirming or reversing the order of the Commission appealed from.

   No court of this State, except the Supreme Court, shall have jurisdiction to review, affirm, reverse, or
remand any action of the Corporation Commission with respect to the rates, charges, services,
practices, rules or regulations of public utilities, or of public service corporations, or to suspend or delay
the execution or operation thereof, or to enjoin, reverse, or interfere with the Corporation Commission
in the performance of its official duties; provided, however, that writs of mandamus or prohibition shall
lie from the Supreme Court to the Corporation Commission in all cases where such writs respectively
would lie to any inferior court or officer.

Amended by Laws 1941, p. 544,  1.

This section also amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The
following laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."
                                
Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Section 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.   If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Sections 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to any alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."

"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act are amendments to,
and alterations of Sections l through 4 of this act are amendments to, and alterations of Sections
18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of 
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 222 021.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 21
21.  Upon the giving of notice of appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission, the
Commission, if requested, shall suspend the effectiveness of the order complained of until the final
disposition of the order appealed, and fix the amount of suspending or supersedeas bond.  Such
suspending or supersedeas bond shall be approved and filed with the Corporation Commission (or
approved, on review, by the Supreme Court), and made payable to the State of Oklahoma; provided,
however, that in all cases involving orders of the Corporation Commission affecting rates or charges,
the suspending or supersedeas bond must be sufficient in amount and security to insure the prompt
refunding, by the appealing party, to the parties entitled thereto, of all rates or charges which such
appealing party may collect or receive, pending the appeal, in excess of those authorized by the order
appealed from, in event such order is, by such court, affirmed on appeal.  The Corporation
Commission, upon the executive of such suspending or supersedeas bond, shall forthwith require the
appealing party, under penalty of immediate enforcement (pending the appeal and notwithstanding any
supersedeas), of the order appealed from, to keep such accounts, and make to the Corporation
Commission, from time to time, such reports, verified by oath, as may, in the judgment of the
Corporation Commission, suffice to show the amounts being charged or received by the appealing
party, pending the appeal, in excess of the charge allowed by the order or action of the Corporation
Commission appealed from, together with the names and addresses of the persons to whom such
overcharges may be refundable, in case such charges made by the appealing party, pending the appeal,
be not sustained on such appeal; and the Corporation Commission shall also, from time to time, require
such appealing party, under like penalty, to give additional security, or to increase such suspending
bond, whenever, in the opinion of the Corporation Commission, the same may be necessary to secure
the prompt refunding of the overcharges aforesaid.  Upon the final decision of the appeal, all amounts
which the appealing party may have collected, pending the appeal, in excess of that authorized by such
final decision, shall be promptly refunded by the appealing party to the parties entitled thereto, in such
manner and through such method of distribution, as may be prescribed by the Corporation
Commission, or by law.  All such appeals, affecting the rates, charges, practices, rules or regulations of
any public utility, or of any public service corporation, or any individual, person, firm, corporation,
receiver or trustee engaged in the public utility business, shall have precedence upon the docket of the
Supreme Court, irrespective of its place of session, next after habeas corpus cases, to the end that a
plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be afforded the parties to such appeals.    

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."
Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of 
Article IX of said Constitution."

"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act are amendments to,
and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State
of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 223 022.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 22
22.  The Corporation Commission shall, whenever an appeal is taken therefrom, file with the record of
the case, and as a part thereof, a written statement of the reasons upon which the action appealed from
was based, and such statement shall be read and considered by the Supreme Court, upon disposing of
the appeal.  In no case of appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission shall any new or
additional evidence be introduced in the Supreme Court, but the cause shall be heard on the record
made before the Corporation Commission, and the Chairman of the Commission, under the seal of the
Commission, shall certify to the Supreme Court all the facts upon which the action appealed from was
based, and which may be essential for the prompt decision of the appeal, together with all evidence
introduced before said Corporation Commission, as may be selected, specified or required to be
certified, by any party in interest, as well as such other evidence, so introduced before the Commission
as the Chairman may deem proper to certify; provided, however, that in any appeal from an order of
the Corporation Commission in which a party thereto asserts the violation of any right under the
Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, the Supreme Court shall
require the Commission to take and receive such additional evidence as is necessary to judicially
determine the rights of the parties and report the same to the Court, in such manner as the Court may
prescribe, for its consideration before the appeal is finally decided.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."
     

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 224 024.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 24
24.  The right of any person, firm, corporation, receiver or trustee to institute and prosecute in the
ordinary courts of justice, any action, suit or motion against any public utility, or public service
corporation, or any individual, person, firm, corporation, receiver or trustee, engaged in the public utility
business, shall not be extinguished or impaired by reason of any fine or other penalty which the
Corporation Commission may impose or be authorized to impose upon such impaired by reason of any
fine or other penalty which the Corporation Commission may impose or be authorized to impose upon
such public utility, public service corporation, or any individual, person, firm, corporation, receiver or
trustee engaged in the public utility business, because of its breach of any public duty or because of its
failure to comply with any order or requirement of the Corporation Commission; but in no such
proceeding by any person, firm, corporation, receiver or trustee, against such public utility, public
service corporation, or any individual, person, form, corporation, receiver or trustee engaged in the
public utility business, nor in any collateral proceeding, shall the reasonableness, justness, or validity of
any rate, charge, service, practice, rule, regulation or requirement, theretofore prescribed by the
Corporation Commission, within the scope of its authority, and then in force, be questioned.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Section 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section l of Laws 1993, c. 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an amendment to, and
alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of 
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act are amendments to,
and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State
of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 or Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 225 025.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 25
25.  The Commission shall make annual reports to the Governor of its proceedings, which reports it
shall recommend, from time to time, such new or additional legislation in reference to its powers or
duties, or the creation, supervision, regulation or control of corporations, or to the subject of taxation,
as it may deem wise or expedient, or as may be required by law.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 226 026.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***


Article 9, section 26
26.  It shall be the duty of each and every railway company, subject to the provisions herein, to provide
and maintain adequate, comfortable, and clean depots, and depot buildings, at its several stations, for
the accommodation of passengers, and said depot buildings shall be kept well lighted and warmed for
the comfort and accommodation of the traveling public; and all such roads shall keep and maintain
adequate and suitable freight depots and buildings for the receiving, handling, storing, and delivering of
all freight handled by such roads.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 227 027.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 27
27.  In case any railroad company shall hereafter seek to cross at grade with its track or tracks, the
track or tracks of another railroad, the railroad seeking to cross at grade, within a reasonable time, shall
be compelled to interlock or protect such crossings by safety devices, to be designated by the
Commission, and all costs of appliance, together with the expenses of putting them in, shall be borne
equally by each company: Provided, That this act shall not apply to crossing of sidetracks.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 228 028.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 28
28.  The commissioners, or either of them, or such persons as they may employ therefor, shall have the
right, at such times as they may deem necessary, to inspect the books and papers of any railroad
company or other public service corporation, and to examine, under oath, any officer, agent, or
employee of such corporations in relation to the business and affairs of the same.  If any railroad
company or other public service corporation shall refuse to permit the commissioners, or either of them,
or any person authorized thereto, to examine its books and papers, such railroad company or other
public service corporation shall, until otherwise provided by law, for each offense, pay to the State of
Oklahoma not less than one hundred and twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, for
each day it shall so fail or refuse, and the officer or other person so refusing shall be punished as the law
shall prescribe.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 229 029.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 29
29.  The Commission shall ascertain, and enter of record, the same to be a public record, as early as
practicable, the amount of money expended in construction and equipment per mile of every railroad
and other public service corporation in Oklahoma, the amount of money expended to procure the right
of way, and the amount of money it would require to reconstruct the roadbed, track, depots, and
transportation facilities, and to replace all the physical properties belonging to the railroad or other
public service corporation.  It shall also ascertain the outstanding bond, debentures, and indebtedness,
and the amount, respectively, thereof, when issued, and rate of interest, when due, for what purposes
issued, how used, to whom issued, to whom sold, and the price in cash, property, or labor, if any,
received therefor, what become of the proceeds, by whom the indebtedness is held, the amount
purporting to be due thereon, the floating indebtedness of the company, to whom due, and his address,
the credits due on it, the property on hand belonging to the railroad company or other public service
corporation, and the judicial or other sales of said road, its property or franchises, and the amounts
purporting to have been paid, and in what manner paid therefor.  The Commission shall also ascertain
the amounts paid for salaries to the officers of the railroad, or other public service corporation, and the
wages paid its employees.  For the purpose in this section named, the Commission may employ experts
to assist them when needed, and from time to time, as the information required by this section is
obtained, it shall communicate the same to the Attorney General by report, and file a duplicate thereof
with the State Examiner and inspector for public use, and said information shall be printed, from time to
time, in the annual report of the Commission.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 230 030.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 30
30.  No transportation or transmission company shall charge or receive any great compensation, in the
aggregate, for transporting the same class of passengers property, or for the transmitting the same class
of messages, over a shorter than a long distance, along the same line and in the same direction-the
shorter being included the longer distance; but this section shall not be construed as  authorizing any
such company to charge or receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a long distance.  The
Commission may, from time to time, authorize any such company disregard the foregoing provisions of
this section, by charging such rates as Commission may prescribe as just and equitable between such
company and the public to or from any junctional or competitive points or localities, or where the
competition points located without this State may make necessary the prescribing of special rates the
protection of the commerce of this State; but this section shall not apply to mileage tickets, or to any
special excursion, or commutation rates, or to special rates for service rendered to this State, or to the
United States, or in the interest of some public object when such tickets or rates shall have been
prescribed or authorized by the Commission.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 231 031.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 31
31.  No railroad, oil pipe line, telephone, telegraph, express, or car corporation organized under the
laws of any other state, or of the United States, and doing business or proposing to do business in the
State of Oklahoma, shall be allowed to exercise the right of eminent domain, unless it shall become a
body corporate pursuant to the laws of this state; or unless such corporation shall comply with such
limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Corporation Commission, and file with the
commission its written acceptance of such requirements and procure from the commission a certificate
entitling it to exercise such right.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 232 032.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 32
32.  The said Commission shall have power, and it is hereby made its duty, to investigate all through
freight or passenger rates on railroads in this State, and when the same are in the opinion of the
Commission, excessive or levied or laid in violation of the Interstate Commerce law, or the rules and
regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the proper officials of the railroads are to be
notified of the facts and requested to reduce them or make the proper corrections, as the case may be. 
When the rates are not changed, or the proper corrections are not made according to the request of the
Commission, it shall be the duty of the latter to notify the Interstate Commerce Commission and to
make proper application to it for relief, and the Attorney General or such other persons as may be
designated by law shall represent the Commission in all such matters.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 233 033.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 33
33.  Any person, firm, or corporation owning or operating any coal, lead, iron, or zine mine, or any saw
mill, grain elevator, or other industry, whenever the Commission shall reasonably determine that the
amount of business is sufficient to justify the same, near or within a reasonable distance of any track,
may, at the expense of such person, firm or corporation, build and keep in repair a switch leading from
such railroad to such mine, saw mill, elevator or other industry; such railroad company shall be required
to furnish the switch stand and frog and other necessary material for making connection, with such side
track or spur under such reasonable terms, conditions and regulations as the said Commission may
prescribe, and shall make connection therewith.  The party owning such mine, saw mill, elevator or
other industry shall pay the actual cost thereof.  If any railroad company, after proper demand therefor
is made, shall refuse to furnish said material for making said connection and put the same in place, or
after the building of such switch, shall fall or refuse to operate the same, such railroad company failing
and refusing for a reasonable time, shall forfeit and pay to the party or corporation aggrieved, the sum
of five hundred dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered by civil action in any court of
competent jurisdiction; and every day of such refusal on the part of the railroad company to operate
such switch as aforesaid, after such demand is made, shall be deemed a separate offense.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 234 034.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 34
34.  As used in this Article, the term "transportation company' shall include any company, corporation,
trustee, receiver or any other person owning, leasing or operating for hire a railroad, street railway,
canal, steamboat line, and also any freight car company, car corporation, or company, trustee or
persons in any way engaged in such business as a common carrier over a route acquired in while or in
part under the right of eminent domain, or under and grant from the Government of the United States;
the term "rate" shall be construed to mean rate of charge for any service rendered, or to be rendered;
the terms "rate," "charge" and "regulation" shall include joint charges and joint regulations, respectively;
the term "transmission company" shall include any company, receiver or other person owning, leasing
or operating for hire any telegraph or telephone line; the term "freight" shall be construed to mean any
property transported or received  for transportation by any transportation company.  The term "public
service corporation" shall include all transportation and transmission companies, all gas, electric, heat,
light and power companies, and all persons, firms, corporations, receivers or trustees engaged in said
businesses, and all persons, firms, corporations, receivers or trustees authorized to exercise the right of
eminent domain or having a franchise to use or occupy any right of way, street, alley or public highway,
whether along, over or under the same, in a manner not permitted to the general public, and all persons,
firms, corporations, receivers and trustees engaged in any business which is a public utility or a public
service corporation, at the present time or which may hereafter be declared to be a public utility or a
public service corporation.  The term "person" as used in this Article shall include individuals,
partnerships, and corporations in the singular as well as plural number; the term "bond" shall mean all
certificates or written evidence of indebtedness issued by any corporation and secured by mortgage or
trust deed.  The term "frank" shall mean any writing or token issued by or under authority of a
transmission company, entitling the holder to any service from such company free of charge.
   The provisions of this Article shall always be so restricted in their application as not to conflict with
any of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and as if the necessary limitations upon
their interpretation had been herein expressed in each case.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 235 035.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1987 ***

Article 9, section 35
35.  After the second Monday in January, nineteen hundred and nine, the Legislator may, by law, from
time to time, alter, amend, revise, or repeal sections from eighteen to thirty-four, inclusive, of this article,
or any of them, or any amendments thereof; Provided, That no amendment made under authority of this
section shall contravene the provisions of any part of this Constitution other than the said sections last
above referred to or any such amendments thereof.

This section amended regularly by Laws, though the text of the section is not changed.  The following
laws alter various portions of this section without changing the text.

Section 2 of Laws 1996, c. 357 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 1 of this act [Title 17,  139.601] be an
amendment to, and alteration of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 7 of Laws 1996, c. 331 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of this act [Title 17,  131, 132,
137.3, 166.3, 200 and  137.2 and 140 (repealed) be an amendment to, and alteration of,
Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as
authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Subsection H of  180.11 of title 17 provides as follows:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that this entire section is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 4 of Laws 1993, c. 365 provides:
"It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 3 of this act [title 17,  131, 137 and
137.1] are amendments to, and alterations of, Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of
the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35, Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma."

Section 1 of Laws 1993, c 132 [title 17,  163.1] provides in part:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that any provision of this section is an
amendment to, and alteration of Sections 18 through 34 inclusive of Article IX
of the Oklahoma Constitution as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the
Oklahoma Constitution."

Sections 5 and 6 of Laws 1992, c. 180 [title 17,  140.5 and 140.6] provide:
"Section 5.  If this act or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX
of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared that this entire act and this section are
amendments to and alterations of said section of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of
Article IX of said Constitution."
"Section 6.  It is the intention of the Legislature that this act is an amendment to and alteration
of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma,
as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 16 of Laws 1991, c. 135 [title 18,  438.35] provides:
"It is hereby expressly declared by the Legislature that this entire act is an amendment to, and
alteration of, Section 18 through Section 34 inclusive of Article IX of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 5 of Laws 1987, c. 16 [title 17,  206] provides:
"It is the intention of the Legislature that Sections 1 through 4 of this act
are amendments to, and alterations of Sections 18 through 34, inclusive, of
Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by
Section 35, Article IX of said Constitution."

Section 12 of Laws 1987, c. 59 [title 17,  158.61] provides:
"If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any such conflicts or
inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to
and alterations of said sections of the Constitution, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of
said Constitution."

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 236 037.0 009.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***

Article 9, section 37 repealed November 4, 1986.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 237 006.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1992 ***

Article 10, section 6
6.  (A) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, all property used for free public
libraries, free museums, public cemeteries, property used exclusively for nonprofit schools and colleges,
and all property used exclusively for religious and charitable purposes, and all property of the Untied
States except property for which a federal agency obtains title through foreclosure, voluntary or
involuntary liquidation or bankruptcy unless the taxation of such property is prohibited by federal law;
all property of this state, and of counties and of municipalities by federal law; all property of this state,
and of counties and of municipalities of this state; household goods of the heads of families, tools,
implements, and livestock employed in the support of the family, not exceeding One Hundred Dollars
($100.0) in value, and all growing crops, shall be exempt from taxation: Provided, that all property not
herein specified now exempt from taxation under the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, shall be
exempt from taxation until otherwise provided by law.

   All property owned by the Murrow Indian Orphan Home, located in Coal County, and all property
owned by the Whitaker Orphan Home, located in Mayes County, so long as the same shall be used
exclusively as free homes or schools for orphan children, and for poor and indigent persons, and all
fraternal orphan homes, and other orphan homes, together with all their charitable funds, shall be
exempt from taxation, and such property as may be exempt by reason of treaty stipulations, existing
between the Indians and the United States government, or by federal laws, during the force and effect
of such treaties or federal laws.  The Legislature may authorize any incorporated city or town, by a
majority vote of its electors voting thereon, to exempt manufacturing establishments and public utilities
from municipal taxation, for a period not exceeding five (5) years, as an inducement to their location.

   (b) The board of county commissioners of any county may call a special election to determine
whether or not household goods of the heads of families and livestock employed in support of the family
located within the county shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation.  Such an election shall also be
called by the board upon petition signed by not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the registered
voters of the county.  Upon passage of the question, the exemption provided for in this subsection shall
become effective on January 1 of the following year.

Amended November 3, 1992.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 238 006.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 1988 ***
                                        
Article 10, section 6-B
6-B.  For the purpose of inducing any manufacturing concern to locate or expand manufacturing
facilities within any county of this state, a qualifying manufacturing concern shall be exempt from the levy
of any ad valorem taxes upon new, expanded or acquired manufacturing facilities for a period of five
(5) years.

   For purposes of this section, a "qualifying manufacturing concern" means a concern that:

   1.  Is not engaged in business in this state or does not have property subject to ad valorem tax in this
state and constructs a manufacturing facility in this state or acquires an existing facility that has been
unoccupied for a period of twelve (12) months prior to acquisition; or

   2.  Is engaged in business in this state or has property subject to ad valorem tax in this state and
constructs a manufacturing facility in this state at a different location from present facilities and continues
to operate all of its facilities or acquires an existing facility that has been unoccupied for a period of
twelve (12) months prior to acquisition and continues to operate all of its facilities.

   The exemption allowed by this section shall apply to expansions of existing facilities.  Provided,
however that any exemption shall be limited to the increase in ad valorem taxes directly attributable to
the expansion.
  
   The Legislature shall define the term "manufacturing facility" for purposes of the ad valorem tax
exemption provided by this section in order to promote full employment of labor resources within the
state; provided, however, that a manufacturing facility that qualifies for the ad valorem tax exemption
provided by this section, pursuant to the definition of "manufacturing facility" then applicable, shall be
eligible for the exemption without regard to subsequent changes in the definition of the term
"manufacturing facility."

   The Legislature shall enact laws to carry out the provisions of this section and to provide for the
reimbursement to common schools, county governments, cities and towns, emergency medical services
districts, vocational-technical schools, junior colleges, county health departments and libraries for
revenues lost to such entities as a result of the exemption provided by this section.

   The assessed valuation of property exempt from taxation by virtue of this section shall be added to
the assessed valuation of taxable property in computing the limit on indebtedness of political
subdivisions contained in Section 26 of this article.

Added on August 23, 1988.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 239 006.C 010.0 0 OK 1907 1990 ***

Article 10, section 6-C
6-C.  A.  The Legislature, by law, may grant incorporated cities, towns, or counties the ability to
provide incentives, exemptions and other forms of relief from taxation for historic preservation,
reinvestment, or enterprise areas that are exhibiting economic stagnation or decline.  Relief from taxes
imposed by other local taxing jurisdictions shall only be allowed by contractual arrangement with the
municipal or county governing body.  The law shall require public hearings before such relief may be
granted and shall provide for the local initiative power and referendum of the people.  The Legislature
may set limitations on the cumulative incentives and relief provided pursuant to the provisions of this
section, the time period for the exemptions, the geographical area of the jurisdiction covered, the
percentage of the tax base of the jurisdiction eligible for the relief programs, and threshold limits of
investment credit and jobs created.

   B.  The Legislature, by law, may authorize that the cities, towns, or counties may specifically use local
taxes and local fees, in whole or in part, for specific public investments, assistance in development
financing, or as a specific revenue source for other public entities in the area in which the improvements
take place and may direct the apportionment of the taxes and fees specified in this subsection for the
purposes specified in this section.  The Legislature may establish for this subsection, the same
procedures and limitations authorized in subsection A of this section.

   C.  The Legislature, by law, may authorize any city, town, or county to plan, finance and carry out the
development or redevelopment of areas determined by the governing body of such city, town, or
county to be unproductive, undeveloped, underdeveloped or blighted.  The authority of the county shall
be limited to the unincorporated areas of such county but any city, town or county may be agreement
jointly plan, finance or carry out a development plan with any other public or private entity for one or
more development projects within their respective boundaries.

   D.  Any city, town, or county may exercise the provisions of this section separately or in combination
with powers granted by any other laws of this state.

New.  Added by Nov. 6, l990.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 240 008.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1996 ***

Article 10, section 8
8.  A.  Except as otherwise provided in Article X of this Constitution, beginning January l, 1997, all
property which may be taxed ad valorem shall be assessed for taxation as follows:

   1.  Tangible personal property shall not be assessed for taxation at less than ten percent (10%) nor
more than fifteen percent (15%) of its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would being at a fair
voluntary sale;

   2.  Real property shall not be assessed for ad valorem taxation at a value less than eleven percent
(11%) nor greater than thirteen and one-half percent (13.5%) of its fair cash value for the highest and
best use for which such property was actually used, or was previously classified for use, during the
calendar year next preceding the first day of January on which the assessment is made.  The transfer of
property without a change in its use classification shall not require a reassessment based exclusively
upon the sale value of such property.  In connection with the foregoing, the Legislature shall be
empowered to enact laws defining classifications of use for the purpose of applying standards to
facilitate uniform assessment procedures in this state; and

   3.  All other property which is assessed by the State Board of Equalization shall be assessed for ad
valorem taxation at the percentage of its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would being at a fair
voluntary sale, at which it was assessed on January l, 1996.

   B.  Beginning January l, 1997, the percentage at which real or tangible personal property is assessed
within a county shall not be increased except upon approval by a majority of the registered voters of the
county, voting at an election called for that purpose by a majority of the county commissioners, or upon
a petition initiated by not less than ten percent (10%) of the registered voters of the county based on the
total number of votes cast at the last general election for the county office receiving the highest number
of votes at the election.  In no event shall the percentage be increased by more than one percentage
point per year or increase in excess of the limitations set forth in paragraphs l and 2 of subsection A of
this section.  The percentage at which real or tangible personal property is assessed within a county
may be decreased, within the limitations set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection A of this section,
without approval of the voters of the county.

   C.  Any officer or other person authorized to assess values or subject for taxation, who shall commit
any wilful error in the performance of the duties of the office, shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance, and
upon conviction thereof shall forfeit the office and be otherwise punished as may be provided by law.

Amended November 5, 1996.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 241 008.A 010.0 0 OK 1907 1992 ***

Article 10, section 8-A
8-A.  (a) If a county approves an exemption of household goods of the heads of families and livestock
employed in support of the family from taxation pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of Section
6 of this article, the millage rate levied against the net taxable valuation of all property of each taxing
jurisdiction located within such county levying ad valorem taxes for a general fund or a building fund
shall be adjusted pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section to compensate for the
potential loss of revenue to the taxing jurisdiction directly attributable to the exemption of all such
property.  For purposes of this section, "taxing jurisdiction" shall include, but not be limited to, counties,
cities, towns, common school districts, vocational-technical school districts and any other unit of
government authorized to collect ad valorem taxes from millage levied against the taxable value of
property.

   (b) The adjusted millage rate for a general fund or building fund of each taxing jurisdiction located
within a county which exempts household goods of the heads of families and livestock employed in
support of the family from ad valorem taxation pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 6
of this Article shall be computed, for each taxing jurisdiction, by dividing the net taxable valuation of all
property for the year preceding the year in which the exemption of such property becomes effective by
the difference between the net taxable valuation of all property for the year preceding the year in which
the exemption of such property becomes effective and the net taxable valuation of the household goods
of the heads of families and livestock employed in support of the family for the year preceding the year
in which the exemption of such property becomes effective.  The resulting quotient shall be the millage
adjustment factor, and shall be multiplied by the millage rate which would otherwise have been applied
for the year in which the exemption of such property becomes effective to derive the adjusted millage
rate, which shall be levied against the net taxable valuation of all property, other than the exempt
property, within the jurisdiction for the year in which the exemption of household goods of the heads of
families and livestock employed in support of the family becomes effective; provided, such adjusted
millage rate may be increased or decreased in the manner provided by the provisions of this Article.

   (c) If a county approves an exemption of household goods of the heads of families and livestock
employed in support of the family from ad valorem taxation pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b)
of Section 6 of this article, the maximum allowable millage for any millage levied by any taxing
jurisdiction located within such county for a general fund or building fund, as prescribed by Sections 9,
9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 10, 10A, 10B and 35 of this article or as otherwise authorized by Section 36 of
Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution, shall be adjusted by multiplying such millage by the millage
adjustment factor as specified in subsection (b) of this section.  The resulting product shall be the
adjusted maximum allowable millage for that particular millage levied by such taxing jurisdiction for a
general fund or building fund.

   (d) If approved by the people, this section will become effective January l, 1993.   

New.  Added November 3, 1992.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 242 008.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 1996 ***

Article 10, section 8-B
8-B.  Despite any provision to the contrary, the fair cash value of any parcel of locally assessed real
property shall not increase by more than five percent (5%) in any taxable year.  The provisions of this
section shall not apply in any year when title to the property is transferred, changed, or conveyed to
another person or when improvements have been made to the property.  If title to the property is
transferred, changed, or conveyed to another person, the property shall be assessed for that year based
on the fair cash value as set forth in Section 8 of Article X of this Constitution.  If any improvements are
made to the property, the increased value to the property as a result of the improvement shall be
assessed for that year based on the fair cash value as set forth in Section 8 of Article X of this
Constitution.  The provisions of this section shall be effective January 1, 1997, and thereafter for
counties which are in compliance with the applicable law or administrative regulations governing
valuation of locally assessed real property as of such date.  For counties which are not in compliance
with such law or regulations as of January l, l997, the provisions of this section shall be effective January
l, 1997, and thereafter for counties are in compliance with the applicable law or administrative
regulations governing valuation of locally assessed real property as of such date.  For counties which
are not in compliance with such law or regulations as of January l, 1997, the provisions of this section
shall be effective January l of the year following the date the county is deemed to be in compliance with
such laws or regulations as provided by law.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
personal property which may be taxed ad valorem or any property which may be valued or assessed
by the State Board of Equalization.

   The Legislature shall enact any laws necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

New.  Added November 5, 1996.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 243 008.C 010.0 0 OK 1907 1996 ***

Article 10, section 8-C
8-C.  Despite any provision to the contrary, beginning January l, 1997, the fair cash value, as
determined by law, on each homestead of an individual head of household whose gross household
income from all sources for the preceding calendar year did not exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars
($25,000.0), and which individual head of household is sixty-five (65) years of age or older, shall not
exceed the fair cash value placed upon the property during the first year in which the individual head of
household was sixty-five (65) years of age or older and had gross household income from all sources of
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.0) or less.  Subject to the limitations of this section, the fair
cash value shall not exceed such amount as long as the individual head of household who is sixty-five
(65) years of age or older owns and occupies the property and as long as the gross household income
from all sources does not exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.0) in any calendar year.  If
any improvements are made to the property, the fair cash value of the improvements shall be assessed
in accordance with law by the county assessor and added to the assessed value of the property.  Once
the fair cash value of the improvements has been added to the fair cash value of the property, the total
fair cash value shall not exceed the revised valuation of the property so long as the individual head of
household who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older owns and occupies the property and so long as
the gross household income from all sources does not exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars
($25,000.0) in a calendar year.  For any individual head of household who is sixty-five (65) years of
age or older prior to January 1, 1997, and has gross household income from all sources of Twenty-five
Thousand Dollars ($25,000.0) or less in calendar year 1996, the fair cash value of the real property
shall be the fair cash value placed upon the property on January l, 1997.  If the individual head of
household creases to won and occupy the property or if the gross household income from all sources
exceeds Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.0) in a calendar year, the fair cash value of the
property shall be determined as if the provisions of Section 8 of Article X of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma or any other provisions relating to a limitation on the fair cash value of locally
assessed real property had been in effect during the time the property was valued pursuant to the
provisions of this section.

New.  Added November 5, 1996.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 244 009.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 2000 ***

Article 10, section 9
9.  (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, the total taxes for all purposes on an ad valorem basis shall
not exceed, in any taxable year, fifteen (15) mills on the dollar, no less than five (5) mills of which is
hereby apportioned for school district purposes, the remainder to be apportioned between county, city,
town and school district, by the County Excise Board, until such time as a regular apportionment
thereof is otherwise provided for by the Legislature.

   No ad valorem tax shall be levied for State purposes, nor shall any part of the proceeds of any ad
valorem tax levy upon any kind of property in this State be used for State purposes.

   (b) A tax of four (4) mills on the dollar valuation of all taxable property in the county shall be levied
annually in each county of the State for school purposes and, until otherwise provided by law, the
proceeds thereof shall be apportioned to the school districts of the county by the County Treasurer on
the basis of the legal average daily attendance for the preceding school year as certified by the State
Board of Education.  Provided that in case a school district lies in more than one county, such district
shall be deemed a school district of the county having the greater part of the area comprising such
district, unless otherwise provided by law, and shall be entitled to participate in the proceeds of such
tax on the same basis as districts lying wholly within such county but revenue from such tax on the
assessed valuation of the district in other counties shall, when collected, be transmitted to the County
Treasurer of such county having the greater part of the area comprising the district, unless otherwise
provided by law, and be apportioned as hereinbefore provided for the proceeds of such tax on the
assessed valuation of such county.  Not to exceed seventy per centum (75%) of the amount received
by a school district from the proceeds of such county levy in any year shall be required to finance the
State guaranteed program of such district.

   (c) Upon certification of a need therefor by the board of education of any school district an additional
tax of not to exceed fifteen (15) mills on the dollar valuation of all taxable property in the district shall be
levied for the benefit of the schools of such district.

   (d) In addition to the levies hereinbefore authorized, any school district may make an emergency levy
for the benefit of the schools of such district, in an amount not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar
valuation of the taxable property in such district when approved by a majority of the electors of the
district voting on the question at an election called for such purpose.  This emergency levy shall provide
only sufficient additional revenue to meet the needs of the district each fiscal year a determined by the
board of such district and must be approved by a majority of the electors voting on said question at
such an election for each fiscal year.

   (d-1) In addition to the levies hereinbefore authorized, any school district may make a local support
levy for the benefit of the schools of such district, in an amount not to exceed ten (10) mills on the dollar
valuation of the taxable property in such district, when approved by a majority of the ad valorem
taxpaying voters voting on said question at an election for each fiscal year called for such purposes. 
This local support levy shall provide only sufficient additional revenue to meet the needs of the district
for each such fiscal year as determined by the board of such district; provided, an elector desiring to
vote upon such local support levy must present an ad valorem tax receipt for the year immediately
preceding before being issued a ballot, or sign a sworn affidavit certifying the fact of such payment.

   (d-2) A school district may upon approval by a majority of the electors of the district voting on the
question make the ad valorem levy for emergency levy and local support levy under (d) and (d-1) of
this section permanent.  If the question is approved, the levies, in the amount approved as required by
this section, shall be made each fiscal year thereafter until such time as a majority of the electors of the
district voting on the question rescind the making of the levy permanent.  An election on such question
shall be held at such time as a petition is signed by ten percent (10%) of the school district electors or a
recommendation by the board of education of the school district is made asking that the levies be made
each fiscal year.

   (e) The amount of revenue from school district ad valorem taxes levied under (a) and (c) of this
Section which any school district may be required to use to finance its State guaranteed program shall
not be in excess of its share, based upon its relative taxpaying ability as may be defined by law, of an
amount equivalent to the net proceeds from a fifteen (15) mill tax levy on the aggregate net assessed
valuation of the State; but until such relative taxpaying ability is defined by the legislature, the amount of
revenue from such taxes which any school district may be required to use to finance its State
guaranteed program shall not be in excess of the net proceeds from an ad valorem tax levy of fifteen
(15) mills on the dollar net assessed valuation of the district.  No part of the proceeds from any ad
valorem levy for emergency levy and local support levy under (d) and (d-1) of this Section shall be
required to finance the State guaranteed program of such district.

   Nothing in the amendments to the Constitution incorporated herein shall be construed to amend, alter
or supersede the present application of Article XII-A, Sections 1 and 2 of the Oklahoma Constitution.
 
Amended November 7, 2000.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 245 009.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 2001 ***

Article 10, section 9-B
9-B.  A.  Technology center school districts for technology center schools may be established and a
levy of not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar valuation of the taxable property in any technology
center school district so established may be made annually, for the district, when the levy is approved
by a majority of the electors of the technology center school district, voting on the question at an
election called for that purpose.  The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by this
Constitution, and when approved, shall be made each fiscal year thereafter until repealed by a majority
of the electors of the technology center school district, voting on the question at an election called for
that purpose.  Any technology center school district so established shall be considered as a school
district for the purposes of Sections 10 and 26 of this Article.  The administrative control and direction
of the technology center school district shall be
vested in a school board which shall be constituted and empowered as provided for by law for school
boards of independent school districts.  Provisions of other subsections of this section notwithstanding,
in any case where a college technology center school district recognized pursuant to Section 4423 of
Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes and established by vote of the people after December 31, 1968,
overlaps and includes territory which is included within the district of a technology center school
established as prescribed by the State Board of Career and Technology Education pursuant to Section
14-108 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, only the levies made by the college technology center
school district shall be applied to said overlap territory, and revenues from the overlap area collected
pursuant to any incentive levy so made shall be apportioned one-half to the college technology center
school district making the levy and one-half to the overlapped technology center school district.  In any
case where a college technology center school district recognized pursuant to Section 4420.1 of Title
70 of the Oklahoma Statutes overlaps and includes territory which is included within the district of a
technology center school established as prescribed by the State Board of Career and Technology
Education pursuant to Section 14-108 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, said overlap territory shall
be subject to all levies of both kinds of districts that are approved by a majority of the electors.

   B.  In addition to any other levies authorized by this section, a technology center school district may
make a local incentive levy for the benefit of the technology center school district in an amount not to
exceed five (5) mills on the dollar valuation of the taxable property in the technology center school
district when approved by a majority of those registered voters of the technology center school district
voting on the question at an election called for that purpose.  Except as otherwise provided, this levy,
when approved, shall be made each fiscal year thereafter until repealed by a majority of the electors of
the technology center school district voting on the question at an election called for that purpose.  A
technology center school district which has previously failed to approve a local incentive levy at two
consecutive elections held between January l, 1994 may make a local incentive levy for the benefit of
the technology center school district only if approved by a majority of the registered voters of the
technology center school district voting on said question at such an election for each fiscal year.  If a
majority of voters approve the local incentive levy for three (3) consecutive years, the levy approved on
the third year shall be made each fiscal year thereafter until repealed by a majority of the electors of the
technology center school district voting on the question at an election called for that purpose.

   C.  Upon the establishment of technology center school district, such districts are authorized to
become indebted separate and apart from the indebtedness of any school district included in the
technology center school district up to five percent (5%) of the net valuation of taxable property within
the technology center school district for capital improvements, including purchasing sites and
constructing, purchasing, improving, and equipping real property and buildings when the indebtedness is
approved by a majority of the electors of the technology center school district voting on the question in
an election called for that purpose.

   D.  Until otherwise provided for by law, technology center school districts and the government
thereof shall be established in accordance with criteria and procedures prescribed by the State Board
of Career and Technology Education.

   E.  The Legislature may alter, amend, delete, or add to the provisions of this section by law.

Amended by Laws 2001, c. 33,  183, eff. July l, 2001.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 246 009.C 010.0 0 OK 1907 1998 ***

Article 10, section 9-C
9-C.  (a) The board of county commissioners, or boards if more than one county is involved, may call a
special election to determine whether or not an ambulance service district shall be formed.  An election
shall also be called by the board or boards involved upon petition signed by not less than ten percent
(10%) of the registered voters of the area affected.  Said area may embrace a county, a part thereof, or
more than one county or parts thereof, and in the event the area covers only a part or parts of one or
more counties, the area must follow school district boundary lines.  All registered voters in such area
shall be entitled to vote, as to whether or not such district shall be formed, and at the same time and in
the same question authorize a tax levy not to exceed three (3) mills for the purpose of providing funds
for the purpose of support, organization, operation and maintenance of district ambulance services,
known as emergency medical service districts and hereinafter referred to as "districts."  If the formation
of the district and the mill levy is approved by a majority of the votes cast, a special annual recurring ad
valorem tax levy of not more than three (3) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable
property in the district shall be levied.  The number of mills shall be set forth in the election
proclamation, and may be increased in a later election, not to exceed a total levy of three (3) mills. This
special levy shall be in addition to all other levies and when authorized shall be made each fiscal year
thereafter.

   Each district which is herein authorized, or established, shall have a board of trustees composed of
not less than five members.  Such trustees shall be chosen jointly by the board or boards of county
commissioners, provided that such membership shall be composed of not less than one individual from
each county or part thereof which is included in said district.  

   Original members of the board of trustees shall hold office, as follows: At the first meeting of said
board, board members shall draw lots to determine each trustee's original length of term in office.  The
number of lots to be provided shall be equal to the number of original members of the board, and lots
shall be numbered sequentially from one through five, with lots in excess of the fifth lot being numbered
sequentially from one through five until all lots are numbered.  Each original member or members added
by an expansion area of the board shall hold office for the number of years indicated on his or her lot. 
Each year, as necessary, the board or boards of county commissioners shall appoint successors to such
members of the board of trustees whose terms have expired, and such subsequent appointments shall
be for terms of five (5) years.

   Such board of trustees shall have the power and duty to promulgate and adopt such rules, procedures
and contract provisions necessary to carry out the purposes and objectives of these provisions, and
shall individually post such bond as required by the county commissioners, which shall not be less than
Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.0).

   The district board of trustees shall have the additional powers to hire a manager and appropriate
personnel, contract, organize, maintain or otherwise operate the emergency medical services within said
district and such additional powers as may be authorized by the Legislature.

   (b) Any district board of trustees may issue bonds, if approved by a majority vote at a special
election for such purpose.  All registered voters within the designated district shall have the right to vote
in said election.  Such bonds shall be issued for the purpose of acquiring emergency vehicles and other
equipment and maintaining and housing the same.

   (c) The bonds authorized above shall not bear interest at a greater rate than that authorized by statute
for the issuance of city municipal bonds.  Such bonds shall be sold only at public sale after twenty (20)
days' advertisement in a newspaper for publication of legal notices with circulation in the district.  Any
district may refund its bonds as is now provided by law for refunding municipal bonds.

   (d) Any district board of trustees, upon issuing bonds as authorized in subsection (b) of this section,
shall levy a special annual ad valorem tax upon the property within the district, payable annually, in a
total amount not to exceed three (3) mills on the dollar, on the real and personal taxable property in
such district, for the payment of principal and interest on outstanding bonds, until same are paid. 
However, the trustees may, from time to time, suspend the collection of such annual levy when not
required for the payment of the bonds.  In no event shall the real and personal taxable property in any
city or town be subject to a special tax in excess of three (3) mills for the payment of bonds issued
hereunder.
    
   (e) There may also be pledged to the payment of principal and interest of the bonds herein authorized
to be issued: (1) any net proceeds from operation of the district that the board of trustees of the district
shall deem not necessary to the future operation and maintenance of said emergency medical service; or
(2) any monies available from other funds of the district not otherwise obligated.

   (f) Bonds shall be issued for designated sums with serial numbers thereon and maturing annually after
three (3) years from date of issue.  All bonds and interest thereon shall be paid upon maturity and no
bonds shall be issued for a period longer than thirty (30) years.  Any district board of trustees may in its
discretion schedule the payment of principal over the thirty-year period so that when interest is added
there will be approximately level annual payments of principal and interest.

   (g) In the event the mill levy as set forth in the original election proclamation is less than three (3) mills,
the board of trustees may request the county commissioners to call a subsequent election to consider
increasing the mill levy; provided, however, the total levy authorized by subsection (a) hereof shall not
exceed three (3) mills.

   (h) The board of trustees of any district shall have jurisdiction over the sale or refunding of any bonds
issued by the district and shall be responsible for the economical expenditure of the funds derived from
the bonds.

   (i) Such districts shall be empowered to charge fees for services, and accept gifts, funds or grants
from sources other than the mill levy, which shall be used and accounted for in a like manner.  Persons
served outside the district shall be charged an amount equal to the actual costs for the service, not
taking into account any income the district receives from millage or sources within the district.  The
board of trustees shall have legal authority to bring suits necessary to collect accounts owed and to sue
and defend as necessary for the protection of the board.  The State Auditor and Inspector shall conduct
an annual audit of the operations of such districts.

   (j) Any emergency medical service district may expand to include other counties or parts thereof,
provided that an election is called by the county commissioners whose county or counties, or parts
thereof, are to be added to in the established district; and provided further, that the county
commissioners in the original district concur in the calling of said election.  The proposed expansion
area shall only be added to the original district if approved separately by a majority vote, by the voters
in both the original district and in the expansion area, at an election called for that purpose.  The county
in which the expansion area is located shall have not less than one member on the board of trustees. 
Appropriate millage or other approved method of financial support shall be levied in the expansion
area, when said area is added to the original district which millage shall be levied at the rate used to
cover operational costs and outstanding bonded indebtedness as provided in Section 9C, (d) and (e),
Article X.

   (k) Any county or parts thereof may withdraw from a district provided that an election is called by the
county commissioners for the county whose county or parts thereof is to be withdrawn from the district. 
The county or parts thereof shall be withdrawn from the district if approved by a majority vote of the
voters in the county at an election called for such purpose.  If the county commissioners are presented a
petition signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of all registered voters in the county, the county
commissioners shall call an election.  The petition for an election for a county or parts thereof to
withdraw from a district and the ballot shall provide for the payment of any debt for operational costs
and outstanding bonded indebtedness in proportional shares, for which the county or parts thereof
would be responsible as a result of the membership of the county or parts thereof in the district.

   (l) Any district may be dissolved, or the millage levy changed, by a majority vote of the registered
voters voting at an election called for that purpose by the county commissioners of each county or part
thereof included within the district; provided that such an election shall not be called unless either three-
fifths (3/5 ) of the trustees of such district request the county commissioners to call such an election, or
the respective county commissioners are presented a petition signed by not less than twenty percent
(20%) of all registered voters in the district.

   (m) In the event a district is dissolved, any mill levy used to support, organize, operate and maintain
the emergency medical service district shall cease, provided that such mill levy shall not cease until all
outstanding emergency medical service bonds of that district are retired and all other debts incurred by
the emergency medical services district have been satisfied.

   (n) All elections called under the provisions hereof shall be conducted by the county election board or
boards of each county or counties involved, upon receipt of an election proclamation, issued by a
majority of the board or boards of county commissioners in the area affected.  In the event more than
one county is involved, said proclamation must be a joint proclamation from a majority of the board of
county commissioners of each county involved.  Said proclamation shall be published in one issue of a
newspaper of general circulation in each county involved in the area affected at least ten (10) days prior
to said election, and said proclamation shall set forth the purpose of the election, and the date thereof. 
The county election board or boards shall certify the results of an election to the board or boards
issuing such proclamation.

   (o) The board of any district shall have capacity to sue and be sued.  Provided, however, the board
shall enjoy immunity from civil suit for actions or commissions arising from the operation of the district,
so long as, and to the same extent as, municipalities and counties within the state enjoy such immunity.

   (p) In lieu of proceeding to establish a district as outlined hereinabove through the county
commissioners, the governing body of any incorporated city or town may proceed to form a district,
join an existing district or join with other incorporated cities or towns in forming a district.  In such case,
said governing body shall be considered as being substituted as to the powers and duties of said county
commissioners as set forth hereinabove; provided, further, said city or town shall be considered as
being substituted as to the powers and duties of a district formed, as set forth hereinabove.  All rights,
duties, privileges and obligations of the residents and voters in such city or town shall be the same as
those outlined for the district as set forth above.  

Amended November 3, 1998.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 247 009.D 010.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***

Article 10, section 9-D
9-D.  A.  The board of county commissioners of any county may call a special election to determine
whether or not the board shall provide solid waste management services for the county.  An election
shall also be called by the board upon petition signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the
registered voters of the county.  All registered voters in such county shall be entitled to vote, as to
whether or not such services shall be provided, and at the same time and in the same question authorize
a tax levy of not to exceed three (3) mills for the purpose of providing funds for the purpose of support,
organization, operation and maintenance of such services.  If the provision of the services and the mill
levy is approved by a majority of the votes cast, a special annual recurring ad valorem tax levy of not
more than three (3) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the county
shall be levied.  The number of mills shall be set forth in the election proclamation, and may be
increased in a later election, not to exceed a total levy of three (3) mills.  This special levy shall be in
addition to all other levies and when authorized shall be made each fiscal year thereafter.

   B.  Upon passage of the question, the board of county commissioners shall provide solid waste
management services for county residents and businesses.  The board may provide for one or more
disposal facilities and for solid waste collection services.  The board may purchase landfill sites,
construct and operate landfills and transfer stations and other solid waste disposal and handling
facilities.  The board shall provide a solid waster disposal and collection system for the county, using the
funds available from the millage levy and any service charges the board may assess.  The board may
purchase, operate, and maintain vehicles for curbside or roadside solid waste collection.  In rural areas
where curbside collection services may not be economically feasible, the board may construct and
operate transfer stations for areawide collection and transfer of solid waste to ultimate disposal sites.

   C.  The board of county commissioners of a county in which the question has passed shall have the
power and duty to promulgate and adopt such rules, procedures and contract provisions necessary to
implement the purposes and objectives of this section.  The board of county commissioners shall have
the additional powers to hire a manager and appropriate personnel, contract, organize, maintain or
otherwise operate the solid waste management services within said county and such additional powers
as may be authorized by the Legislature.

   D.  Two or more counties in which the question has passed may enter into agreements with each
other to provide solid waste management services in all counties involved in the most economical
fashion, including agreements to provide collection and disposal services for each other where areas in
one county may be more economically served by facilities located in another county.

   E.  In addition to other powers provided for pursuant to the provisions of this section, the board of
county commissioners of any county in which the question has passed may issue bonds, if approved by
a majority vote at a special election for such purpose.  All registered voters within the county shall have
the right to vote in said election.  Such bonds may be issued for the purpose of:

   1.  acquiring vehicles, equipment and other necessary items;

   2.  purchasing landfill sites;

   3.  constructing landfills, transfer stations, or other facilities for solid waste management, disposal, and
recycling; and

   4.  operating and maintaining all of the above listed items.

   Landfill sites, equipment and other items, no longer needed, shall be disposed of as provided
for by law for the sale of county-owned property.

   F.   The bonds authorized, pursuant to the provisions for subsection E of this section shall not bear
interest at a greater rate than that authorized by statute for the issuance of city municipal bonds.  Such
bonds shall be sold only at public sale after twenty (20) days' advertisement in a newspaper of general
circulation in the county.  Any county may refund its bonds as is now provided by law for refunding
municipal bonds.  

   G.  Any board of county commissioners, upon issuing bonds as authorized in subsection E of this
section, shall levy a special annual ad valorem tax upon the property within the county, payable
annually, in a total amount not to exceed three (3) mills on the dollar, on the real and personal taxable
property in such county, for the payment of principal and interest on outstanding bonds, until same are
paid.  However, the board may suspend, from time to time, the collection of such annual levy when not
required for the payment of the bonds.

   H.  There may also be pledged to the payment of principal and interest of the bonds authorized to be
issued:

   1.  any net proceeds from operation of the county solid waste management services that the board of
county commissioners shall deem not necessary to the future operation, maintenance or closure of said
solid waste management services and facilities; or

   2.  any monies available from other funds of the county not otherwise obligated.

   I.  Bonds shall be issued for designated sums with interest payable semiannually and with the principal
maturing annually beginning not more than three (3) years from date of issue.  All bonds and interest
thereon shall be paid upon maturity and no bonds shall be issued for a period longer than thirty (30)
years.  Any board of county commissioners may in its discretion schedule the payment of principal over
the period of maturity of the bond issue, so that when interest is added there will be approximately level
annual payments of principal and interest.

   J.  In the event the mill levy as provided for in the original election proclamation is less than three (3)
mills, the board of county commissioners may call a subsequent election to consider increasing the mill
levy; provided, however, the total levy authorized by subsection A of this section shall not exceed three
(3) mills.

   K.  The board of county commissioners shall have jurisdiction over the sale or refunding of any bonds
issued by the county pursuant to the provisions hereof, and shall be responsible for the economical
expenditure of the funds derived from the bonds.

   L.  The board of county commissioners shall be empowered to charge fees for services, and accept
gifts, funds or grants from sources other than the mill levy, which shall be used and accounted for in a
like manner.  Persons served outside the county shall be charged an amount equal to the actual costs
for providing the service, not taking into account any income the county receives from millage or
sources within the county.  The board shall have legal authority to bring such suits necessary to collect
accounts owed and to sue and defend as necessary for the protection of the board.  The State Auditor
and Inspector shall conduct an annual audit of the solid waste management operations of such counties.

   M.  Any county may cease providing solid waste management services, or cause the millage levy
authorized by subsection G of this section to be changed, by a majority vote of the registered voters
voting at an election called for that purpose by the board of county commissioners.  Such an election
shall not be called unless either two-thirds ( ) of the board members vote to call such an election, or
the board is presented a petition signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of all registered voters in
the county.

   N.  If a county ceases to provide solid waste management services, any mill levy used to support,
organize, operate and maintain the services and facilities shall cease, provided that such mill levy shall
not cease until all outstanding solid waste management services bonds of that county are retired, all
other debts incurred by the county in providing solid waste management services have been satisfied,
and all facilities have been properly closed as provided for by law.

   O.  All elections called pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be conducted by the county
election board of each county involved, upon receipt of an election proclamation, issued by the board
of county commissioners in the county affected.  Said proclamation shall be published in one issue of a
newspaper of general circulation in the county at lease ten (10) days prior to said election.  The
proclamation shall set forth the purpose of the election to the board issuing the proclamation.

New.  Added August 26, 1986.

*** MEND *** 
*** MSTART 248 010.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 2000 ***

Article 10, section 10
10.  A.  For the purpose of erecting public building in counties or cities, or for the purpose of raising
money for a building fund for a school district which may be used for erecting, remodeling or repairing
school buildings, and for purchasing furniture, the rates of taxation herein limited may be increased,
when the rate of such increase and the purpose for which it is intended shall have been submitted to a
vote of the people, and a majority of the qualified voters of such county, city, or school district, voting
at such election, shall vote therefor: Provided, that such increase shall not exceed five (5) mills on the
dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property in such county, city, or school district.

   B.  A school district may upon approval by a majority of the electors of the district voting on the
question make the ad valorem levy for a building fund under subsection A of this section permanent.  If
the question is approved, the levy in the amount approved as required by this section, shall be made
each fiscal year thereafter until such time as a majority of the electors of the district voting on the
question rescind the making of the levy permanent.  An election on such question shall be held at such
time as a petition is signed by ten percent (10%) of the school district electors or a recommendation by
the board of education of the school district is made asking that the levies be made each fiscal year. 

Amended Nov. 7, 2000.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 249 010.A 010.0 0 OK 1907 1994 ***

Article 10, section 10-A
10-A.  To provide funds for the purpose of establishing and maintaining or aiding in establishing and
maintaining public libraries and library services, a special annual recurring ad valorem tax shall be levied
when such levy is approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the county voting on the
question at an election called for that purpose by the Board of County Commissioners, either upon its
own initiative or upon petition initiated by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors of the
county based on the total number of votes cast at the last general election for the county office receiving
the highest number of votes at such an election.

   Except as provided in this section, in a county having less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000)
population, according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census, the special annual recurring ad
valorem tax levy shall be not less than one (1) mill nor more than four (4) mills on the dollar of the
assessed valuation of all taxable property in the county.  In a county having more than one hundred fifty
thousand (150,000) population or in a multicounty library system
with a county having more than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) population, according to the most
recent Federal Decennial Census, the special annual recurring ad valorem tax levy for each such county
shall be not less than one (1) mill nor more than six (6) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all
taxable property in the county.

   This special levy shall be in addition to all other levies and when authorized shall be made each fiscal
year thereafter until such authority shall be cancelled by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the
county voting on the question at an election called for that purpose by the Board of County
Commissioners upon petition initiated by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of
the county based on the total number of votes cast at the last general election for the county office
receiving the highest number of votes at such an election.

   Except as provided in this section, in a county having less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000)
population, according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census, the special annual recurring ad
valorem tax levy shall be not less than one (1) mill nor more than four (4) mills on the dollar of the
assessed valuation of all taxable property in the county.  In a county having more than one hundred fifty
thousand (150,000) population or in a multicounty library system with a county having more than one
hundred fifty thousand (150,000) population, according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census,
the special annual recurring ad valorem tax levy for each such county shall be not less than one (1) mill
nor more than six (6) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the county.

   This special levy shall be in addition to all other levies and when authorized shall be made each fiscal
year thereafter until such authority shall be cancelled by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the
county voting on the question at an election called for that purpose by the Board of County
Commissioners upon petition initiated by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of
the county based on the total number of votes cast at the last general election for the county office
receiving the highest number of votes at such an election.

   The proceeds of such levy shall be used by the county for creation, development, operation and
maintenance of such public libraries and library services as are authorized by the Legislature.  Nothing
herein shall prohibit other levies for public libraries and library services or the use of other public funds
for such purposes.  All expenditures of the proceeds of such levies shall be made in accordance with
laws heretofore or hereafter enacted concerning such libraries and library services.  The provisions
hereof shall be self-executing.

Amended Nov. 8, 1994.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 250 010.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 1988 ***

Article 10, section 10-B
10-B.  For the purpose of operating and maintaining municipal-owned hospitals in cities, the rates of
taxation herein limited may be increased, when the rate of such increase and the purpose of which it is
intended shall have been submitted to a vote of the people, and a majority of the qualified voters of such
city, voting at such election, shall vote therefor: Provided, that such increase shall not exceed five (5)
mills on the dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property in such city.

New.  Added March 8, 1988.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 251 014.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1998 ***

Article 10, section 14
14.  A.  Except as otherwise provided by this section, taxes shall be levied and collected by general
laws, and for public purposes only, except that taxes may be levied when necessary to carry into effect
Section thirty-one of the Bill of Rights.   Except as required by the Enabling Act, the State shall not
assume the debt of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the State, unless such
debt shall have been contracted to defend itself in time of war, to repel invasion, or to suppress
insurrection.

   B.  Subject to requirements imposed by law, use of public facilities of institutions within The
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall be authorized by this section if the use is made in
connection with a project involving the research or development of a technology, whether or not the
technology is protected pursuant to federal or state law governing intellectual property, the results of
which have potential economic value for a business enterprise or private business entity involved in the
project with the institution.

Amended November 3, 1998.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 252 015.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1998 ***

Article 10, section 15
15.  A.  Except as provided by this section, the credit of the State shall not be given, pledged, or loaned
to any individual, company, corporation, or association, municipality, or political subdivision of the
State, nor shall the State become an owner or stockholder is, nor make donation by gift, subscription to
stock, by tax, or otherwise, to any company, association, or corporation.

   B.  Pursuant to authority of and subject to requirements of law and according to professional norms
established nationally in similar activities, the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and
Technology or its successor may be authorized to use public funds not exceeding one percent (1%) of
total state appropriations for the current fiscal year to promote economic development through grants
or loans to individuals, companies, corporations or associations.  Pursuant to authority of and subject to
requirements of law and according to professional norms established nationally in similar activities, the
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology or its successor may be authorized
to use public funds in order to promote economic development by purchase or ownership of stock or
to make other investments in private enterprises and to receive income from such investments which are
involved with research or patents from projects involving Oklahoma colleges or universities.  The
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology or its successor may only use
public funds for the purposes authorized in this subsection if a statute specifically authorizing such use is
approved by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds ( ) of the members elected to the Senate and to
the House of Representatives upon final passage of such measure in each of the respective houses and
with the approval of the Governor.

   C.  The Legislature shall only authorize use of public funds by the Oklahoma Center for the
Advancement of Science and Technology or its successor as permitted by this section for promotion of
economic development by creation of new employment, enhancement of existing employment or by the
addition of economic value to goods, services or resources with the State authorized by subsection B
herein.

   D.  The Legislature shall establish procedures to review and evaluate the extent to which the purposes
of any statute authorizing use of public funds by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science
and Technology are achieved.

   E.  Bonds issued by the board of education of any school district or public institutions of higher
education may be guaranteed by the corpus of the permanent school fund, provided:

   1.  As to bonds issued by the board of education such bonds must be approved by election of the
school district upon the question of issuing such bonds;

   2.  As to bonds issued by an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education such
bonds are issued in accordance with all applicable provisions of law; and

   3.  Provisions shall be made by the Legislature to guarantee prompt reimbursement to the corpus of
the permanent school fund for any payment from the fund on behalf of a school district or on behalf of
an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education.  The reimbursement shall include
a reasonable rate of interest.  The provisions of this paragraph regarding use of the permanent school
fund for guarantee of bonds issued by an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher
Education shall not be self-executing and the Legislature shall provide by law the procedure pursuant to
which such obligations may be guaranteed and the procedures for repayments, if any, required to be
made to the permanent school fund.

   F.  Subject to requirements imposed by law, the governing boards of institutions within The
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and employees of those institutions may have an
ownership interest in a technology, whether or not the technology is protected pursuant to federal or
state law governing intellectual property, and may have an ownership interest in a business enterprise or
private business entity, if the ownership interest is acquired as a result of research or development of a
technology involving the authorized use of facilities, equipment, or services of such institutions.

Amended November 3, 1998.               

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 253 018.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***

Article 10, section 18 repealed November 4, 1986.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 254 023.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 2000 ***

Article 10, section 23
23.  The state shall never create or authorize the creation of any debt or obligation, or fund or pay any
deficit, against the state, or any department, institution or agency thereof, regardless of its form or the
source of money from which it is to be paid, except as may be provided in this section and in Section
24 and 25 of Article X of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.

   To ensure a balanced annual budget, pursuant to the limitations contained in the foregoing,
procedures are herewith established as follows:

   1.  Not more than forty-five (45) days or less than thirty-five (35) days prior to the convening of each
regular session of the Legislature, the State Board of Equalization shall certify the total amount of
revenue which accrued during the last preceding fiscal year to the General Revenue Fund and to each
Special Revenue Fund appropriated directly by the Legislature, and shall further certify amounts
available for appropriation which shall be based on a determination, in accordance with the procedure
hereinafter provided, of the revenues to be received by the state under the laws in effect at the time
such determination is made, for the next ensuing fiscal year, showing separately the revenues to accrue
to the credit of each such fund of the state appropriated directly by the Legislature.

   Amounts certified as available for appropriation from each fund, as hereinbefore provided, shall be
ninety-five percent (95%) of an itemized estimate made by the State Board of Equalization, which shall
include all sources of revenue to each fund for the next ensuing fiscal year; provided, however,
appropriated federal funds shall be certified for the full amount of the estimate.  Said estimate shall
consider any increase or decline in revenues that would result from predictable changes in the economy.

   Legislative appropriations for any fiscal year, except for special appropriations provided for in
paragraph 4, shall be limited to a sum not to exceed the total amount appropriated from all funds in the
preceding fiscal year, plus twelve percent (12%), adjusted for inflation for the previous calendar year. 
Said limit shall be adjusted for funds not previously appropriated.  The limit on the growth of
appropriations shall be certified to by the State Board of Equalization.

   2.  Such certification shall be filed with the Governor, the President and President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  The Legislature shall not pass or enact any
bill, act or measure making an appropriation of money for any purpose until such certification is made
and filed, unless the State Board of Equalization has failed to file said certification at the time of
convening of said Legislature.  In such event, it shall be the duty of the Legislature to make such
certification pursuant to the provisions of this section.  All appropriations made in excess of such
certification shall be null and void; provided, however, that the Legislature may at any regular session or
special session, called for that purpose, enact laws to provide for additional revenues or a reduction in
revenues, other than ad valorem taxes,
or transferring the existing revenues or unappropriated cash on hand from one fund to another, or
making provisions for appropriating funds not previously appropriated directly by the Legislature. 
Whereupon, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Equalization to make a determination of the
revenues that will accrue under such laws and ninety-five percent (95%) of the amount of any increase
or decrease resulting, for any reason, from such changes in laws shall be added to or deducted from the
amount previously certified available for appropriation from each respective fund, as the case may be.  
The State Board of Equalization shall file the amount of such adjusted certification, or additional
certification for funds not previously appropriated directly by the Legislature, with the Governor, with
the President and President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and such adjusted amount shall be the maximum amount which can be appropriated
for all purposes from any such fund for the fiscal year being certified.

   3.  The State Board of Equalization shall meet within five (5) days after the monthly apportionment in
February of each year, and at that time may adjust the certification, based upon the most current
information available, and determine the amount of funds available for appropriation for that legislative
session.  At said meeting the Board shall determine the limit on the growth of appropriations as
provided for in this section.

   4.  Surplus funds or monies shall be any amount accruing to the General Revenue Fund of the State of
Oklahoma over and above the itemized estimate made by the State Board of Equalization.

   Beginning July l, 1985, all such surplus funds or monies accruing after said date shall be placed in a
Constitutional Reserve Fund by the State Treasurer until such time that the amount of said Fund equals
ten percent (10%) of the General Revenue Fund certification for the preceding fiscal year. 
Appropriations made from said Fund shall be considered special appropriations.

   Up to one-half («) of the balance at the beginning of the current fiscal year in the said Fund may be
appropriated for the forthcoming fiscal year, when the certification by the State Board of Equalization
for said forthcoming fiscal year General Revenue Fund is less than that of the current fiscal year
certification.  In no event shall the amount of monies appropriated from said Reserve Fund be in excess
of the difference between the two said certifications.

   Up to one-half («) of the balance at the beginning of the current fiscal year in the said Fund may be
appropriated, upon a declaration by the Governor that emergency conditions exist, with concurrence of
the Legislature by a two-thirds ( ) vote of the House of Representatives and Senate for the
appropriation; or said one-half («) could be appropriated upon a joint declaration of emergency
conditions by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, with a concurrence of a three-fourths ( ) vote of the House of Representatives and Senate.

   5.  That portion of every appropriation, at the end of each fiscal year, in excess of actual revenues
collected and allocated thereto, as hereinafter provided, shall be null and void.  Revenues deposited in
the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund or of any special fund (which derives its
revenue in whole or in part from state taxes or fees) shall, except as to principal and interest on the
public debt, be allocated monthly to each department, institution, board, commission or special
appropriation on a percentage basis, in that ratio that the total appropriation for such department,
institution, board, commission or special appropriation from each fund for that fiscal year bears to the
total of all appropriations from each fund for that fiscal year, and no warrant shall be issued in excess of
said allocation.  Any department, institution or agency of the state operating on revenues derived from
any law or laws which allocate the revenues thereof to such department, institution or agency shall not
incur obligations
in excess of the unencumbered balance of cash on hand.  Nothing in this section shall prevent, under
such conditions and limitations as shall be prescribed by law, the governing board of an institution of
higher education with The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education from contracting with a
president of such institution of higher education for periods extending more than one (1) year, but not to
exceed three (3) years beyond the fiscal year in which the contract is signed.

   6.  The Legislature shall provide a method whereby appropriations shall be divided and set up on a
monthly, quarterly or semiannual basis within each fiscal year to prevent obligations being incurred in
excess of the revenue to be collected, and notwithstanding other provisions of this Constitution, the
Legislature shall provide that all appropriations shall be reduced to bring them within revenues actually
collected, but all such reductions shall apply to each department, institution, board, commission or
special appropriation made by the State Legislature in the ratio that its total appropriation for that fiscal
year bears to the total of all appropriations from that fund for that fiscal year; provided, however, that
the Governor may in his discretion issue deficiency certificates to the State Treasurer for the benefit of
any department, institution or agency of the state, if the amount of such deficiency certificates be within
the limit of the current appropriation for that department, institution or agency, whereupon the State
Treasurer shall issue warrants to the extent of such certificates for the payment of such claims as may be
authorized by the Governor, and such warrants shall become a part of the public debt and shall be paid
out of any money appropriated by the Legislature and made lawfully available therefor; provided
further, that in no event shall said deficiency certificates exceed in the aggregate the sum of Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.0) in any fiscal year.

Amended November 7, 2000.

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*** MSTART 255 023.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 1998 ***

Article 10, section 23-B
23-B.   A.  The state is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the incarceration of state prisoners
with counties, municipalities, or any combination thereof authorized by law.  The term of such a contract
shall not exceed fifteen (15) years.

   B.  Any county, municipality or combination thereof authorized by law that builds a new jail or
provides for capital improvements to an existing jail to enter into a contract authorized by subsection A
of this section may provide for financing of the project by any means authorized by the provisions of this
Constitution or state law.

New.  Added November 3, 1998.
*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 256 026.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1996 ***

Article 10, section 26
26.  (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, no county, city, town, township, school district, or other
political corporation, or subdivision of the state, shall be allowed to become indebted, in any manner, or
for any purpose, to an amount exceeding, in any year, the income and revenue provided for such year
without the assent of three-fifths of the voters thereof, voting at an election, to be held for that purpose,
nor, in cases requiring such assent, shall any indebtedness be allowed to be incurred to an amount,
including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five percent (5%) of the valuation of the
taxable property therein, to be ascertained from the last assessment for state and county purposes
previous to the incurring of such indebtedness: Provided, that if a school district has an absolute need
therefor, such district may, with the assent of three-fifths of the voters thereof voting at an election to be
held for that purpose, incur indebtedness to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate
exceeding five percent (5%) but not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the valuation of the taxable
property therein, to be ascertained from the last assessment for state and county purposes previous to
the incurring of such indebtedness, for the purpose of acquiring or improving school sites, constructing,
repairing, remodeling or equipping buildings, or acquiring school furniture, fixtures or equipment; and
such assent to such indebtedness shall be deemed to be a sufficient showing of such absolute need,
unless otherwise provided by law.  Provided further, that if a city or town has an absolute need
therefor, such city or town may, with the assent of three-fifths of the voters thereof voting at an election
to be held for that purpose, incur indebtedness to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the
aggregate exceeding five percent (5%) but not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the valuation of the
taxable property therein, to be ascertained from the last assessment for state and county purposes
previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, and such assent to such indebtedness shall be deemed to
be a sufficient showing of such absolute need unless otherwise provided by law.  Provided, further, that
any county, city, town, school district, or other political corporation, or subdivision of the state,
incurring any indebtedness requiring the assent of the voters as aforesaid, shall, before or at the time of
doing so, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness
as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within
twenty-five (25) years from the time of contracting the same, and provided further that nothing in this
section shall prevent, under such conditions and limitations as shall be prescribed by law, any school
district from contacting with:

   (1) certificated personnel for periods extending one (1) year beyond the current fiscal year; or

   (2) a school superintendent for period extending more than one (1) year, but not to exceed three (3)
years beyond the current fiscal year.

   (b) If a county approves an exemption of household goods of the heads of families and livestock
employed in support of the family from ad valorem taxation pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b)
of Section 6 of this article, the percentage limitations on indebtedness as specified in subsection (a) of
this section for political subdivisions or political corporations located in any such county shall be
adjusted by multiplying the percentage levels specified in subsection (a) of this section by the millage
adjustment factor as specified in subsection (b) of Section 8A of this article.

   (c) If approved by the people, the amendment to this section shall become effective January l, 1998.

Amended on Nov. 5, 1996.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 257 027.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1988 ***

Article 10, section 27
27.  Any incorporated city or town in this state may, by a majority of the voters of such city or town,
voting at an election to be held for that purpose, be allowed to become indebted in a larger amount than
that specified in Section 26, for the purpose of purchasing or constructing public utilities, or for repairing
the same, to be owned exclusively by such city or town, or for the purpose of constructing,
reconstructing, improving or repairing streets or bridges.  Provided, that any such city or town incurring
any such indebtedness requiring the assent of the voters as aforesaid, shall have the power to provide
for, at the time of incurring such indebtedness, shall provide for the collection of an annual tax in
addition to the other taxes provided for by this Constitution, sufficient to pay the interest on such
indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof
within twenty-five years from the time of contracting the same.

Amended August 23, 1988.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 258 027.B 010.0 0 OK 1907 1990 ***
 
Article 10, section 27-B
27-B.  A.  Any incorporated city or town may borrow money or issue bonds, notes or other evidences
of indebtedness, which debt shall be payable from and secured by revenues over a term of years, for
the purpose of financing the purchase, construction, or improvement of any public utility or combination
of public utilities which shall be owned exclusively by such city or town in the following manner:

   1.  The governing body of a city or town shall submit the question of financing the purchase or
construction of a public utility or combination of public utilities to the qualified voters at an election if:

     a.   the public utility or combination of public utilities has not been voted on by the voters of      the
city or town at any time during a ten-year period preceding the date of the election, or

     b.   the public utility or combination of public utilities does not come within the terms of            
paragraph 3 of this subsection;

   2.  If the question of financing the purchase or construction of a public utility or combination of public
utilities has been approved by a majority vote of the qualified voters voting on the question at an
election, or if improvements to a public utility or combination of public utilities pursuant to paragraph 3
of this subsection are authorized, the governing body of a city or town may borrow money or issue
bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, which debt shall be payable from and secured by
revenues over a term of years, upon an affirmative vote of at least three-fourths ( ) of all the members
of such governing body;

   3.  Any additions, extensions, reconstruction, maintenance, repairs or other improvement to any
public utility or combination of public utilities of a city or town may be financed by the city or town if the
original financing of the purchase or construction of the public utility was approved by a majority vote of
the qualified voters voting on the question at an election, or if the public utility or combination of public
utilities acquired by the city or town was financed originally by bonds or other debt of a public trust of
which the city or town is a beneficiary, excluding an industrial trust.  Any such bonds or other debt
originally issued by a public trust of which the city or town is a beneficiary, excluding an industrial trust. 
Any such bonds or other debt originally issued by a public trust of which the city or town is a
beneficiary, excluding an industrial trust, may be refunded by the governing body of the city or town in
the manner provided in paragraph 2 of this subsection.

   B.  Nothing in this section shall allow an indebtedness of the city or town, other than revenues
pledged from the utility involved.

   C.  The revenue indebtedness or contractual obligations of any city or town incurred pursuant to this
section shall be a limited obligation payable from and secured by a lien and charge on revenues or funds
so pledged for their payment by the governing body of the city or town, and shall not constitute an
indebtedness of the city or town for the purpose of any constitutional or statutory limitation.

   D. This section shall be independent and shall not be limited by or limit other provisions of the
Oklahoma Constitution or statutes relating to financing public utilities or indebtedness of a city or town,
nor shall it be exclusive as to other agencies of this state authorized by law to incur indebtedness.  As
used in this section, the words "public utility" shall have the same meaning as the words "public utilities"
in Section 27 of Article X of the Constitution.

   E.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the provisions of this section shall not apply to the
purchase of any utility regulated by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission or to the purchase of any
facility or property of any such utility, unless the purchase is made with the agreement and consent of
the utility, including its agreement and consent as to a specific price to be paid in connection with the
purchase.

New.  Added August 28, 1990.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 259 032.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 10, section 32
32.  For the purpose of providing buildings for school districts, there is hereby established a State
Public Common School Building Equalization Fund in which shall be deposited (1) such monies as may
be designated or provided for such purpose by the Legislature, other than ad valorem taxes, and (2) the
proceeds of all property that shall fall to the State by escheat and penalties for unlawful holding of real
estate by corporations; provided, that if such disposition and use of money from any such sources shall
be declared invalid, the validity of other provisions of this section shall not be affected thereby.  The
State Public Common School Building Equalization Fund shall be administered by the State Board of
Education, until otherwise provided by the Legislature.  Such Fund shall be used to aid school districts
in acquiring buildings, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the administering agency, unless
otherwise provided by law, and the amount paid therefrom to or for any school district shall be
determined by a formula established by the Legislature.  The administering agency is authorized to
accept grants-in-aid from the federal government for building purposes.  

Amended August 28, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 260 034.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***

Article 10, section 34 renumbered and amended August 26, 1986.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 261 033.A 010.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***

Article 10, section 33-A
33-A.  The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma is hereby authorized to enact legislation creating a
State Industrial Finance Authority, to be composed of the State Treasurer (who shall be an ex officio,
non-voting member) and seven members, appointed by the Governor for overlapping terms, one of
whom shall be the Director of the Department of Economic Development representing the State at
large, and one each from the present six Congressional Districts, at least five of whom shall have had at
least fifteen (15) years experience in banking, mortgage loans, or financial management, and the
remaining member shall have demonstrated outstanding ability in business or industry, which Authority
shall be, and is hereby, authorized to issue and sell State Industrial Finance Bonds in such amounts as
shall be needed from time to time for the purposes herein provided, not to exceed in the aggregate
Ninety Million Dollars ($90,000.0) outstanding at any one time, said bonds to be payable in full within
thirty (30) years from their date, the proceeds whereof shall be deposited in the State Treasury in a
fund known as a State Industrial Revolving Loan Fund to be loaned, and reloaned, by said Authority
only to Oklahoma incorporated industrial development agencies (whether profit or non-profit) in
Oklahoma communities, which agencies shall first have been approved and qualified by said Authority,
such loans to be secured either by first or second mortgage on the land, buildings and facilities of such
industrial properties, whether existing or to be constructed, held for sale or lease to approved
responsible industrial firms on such terms as will amortize such loans within a period of twenty-five (25)
years or less, but in no event shall the state's participation exceed thirty-three and one-third percent
(33 ) of the total cost or value of such industrial properties when such loan is secured by a second
mortgage on such industrial properties and sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 ) of the total cost or
value of such industrial properties when such loan is secured by a first mortgage on such industrial
properties.  Provided, however that up to one-half of such monies in said fund may be used by said
Authority to purchase federally guaranteed SBA loans or loans of similar federal programs for
investment purposes.  All bonds representing the state indebtedness herein authorized to be created by
the State Industrial Finance Authority shall be backed by the full faith and credit of the State of
Oklahoma and there shall be pledged to the payment of principal and interest of the bonds herein
authorized to be issued: (1) The net proceeds from repayment of loans and interest received thereon;
(2) any moneys available from other funds of the State not otherwise obligated; and (3) the proceeds of
any tax, other than ad valorem, which may be imposed for such purpose in the event funds available for
use and pledge under (1) and (2) should be insufficient.  The Legislature shall enact appropriate and
needful legislation pertaining to procedure, terms and necessary covenants for issuance of the bonds
herein authorized and establishing such safeguards and regulations governing the lending of such funds
as in its wisdom may be necessary to the vitalization of this Section, and helpful in carrying out the
purpose and intent hereof; to aid and assist with Oklahoma's industrial development.  The additional
bonds as authorized herein shall only be sold as needed in increments not to exceed Ten Million Dollars
($10,000,000.0).         

Formerly Article 10, section 34.  Renumbered and amended on Aug. 26, 1986.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 262 035.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1990 ***

Article 10, section 35
35.  (a) Any incorporated town and any county may issue, by and with the consent of the majority of
the registered voters of said municipality or county voting on the question at an election held for the
purpose, bonds in sums provided by such majority at such election for the purpose of securing and
developing industry within or near the said municipality or county holding the election.

   (b) Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate as set by law and shall be sold in a manner prescribed by
law.

   (c) To provide for the payment of all such bonds outstanding, principal, and interest as they mature,
the municipality or county may levy a special tax, payable annually, in a total amount not to exceed five
(5) mills on the dollar, in addition to the legal rate permitted, on the real and personal taxable property
therein; provided, however, the municipality or county may, from time to time, suspend the collection of
such annual levy when not required for the payment of its bonds; and provided of its bonds; and
provided further, however, that in no event shall the real and personal taxable property in any city or
town be subject to a special tax in excess of five (5) mills for bonds issued hereunder.

   (d) Such bond shall be issued under terms prescribed by law.

   (e)(1) The governing body of the municipality or the county commissioners of the county shall
exercise jurisdiction over the sale or exchange of any such bonds voted by the electors at an election
held for that purpose and shall expend economically the funds so provided.

   (2) In the expenditure and use of proceeds from the sale of said bonds, the said governing body is
hereby authorized and directed to coordinate its industrial development plans and project insofar as
practicable with similar plans and projects of local industrial development agencies and the Oklahoma
Industrial Finance Authority, as set forth in Section 34 of Article X of the Constitution, so as to
supplement funds to be derived from these and other sources, including federal aid available to
economically depressed areas, if any; and to the extent that federal requirements shall require
subordination of liens securing loans from the Oklahoma Industrial Finance Authority or from other
sources, as a condition to the obtaining of such federal aid, the same is hereby approved and
authorized.

   (f) The election on the issuance of such bonds shall be held at such time as the governing body of the
municipality may designate by ordinance, or as the county commissioners of the county may designate
by order, which ordinance or order shall state the sum total of issue, the dates of maturities thereof, and
shall fix the date of election so that it shall not occur earlier than thirty (30) days after the passage of the
said ordinance or the granting of said order.  All elections called pursuant to this section shall be
conducted by the appropriate county election board or boards pursuant to the general election laws of
the state.  The said election shall be held and conducted, the vote thereof canvassed, and the result
thereof declared under the law and in the manner now or hereafter provided for municipal elections
when the election is held by a municipality, and in the manner now or hereafter provided for county
elections when the election is held by a county, so far as the same may be applicable, except as herein
otherwise provided.  Notice of the election shall be given by the mayor of the municipality or by the
county commissioners of the county by advertisement weekly for at least four times in some newspaper
having a bona fide circulation in the said municipality or county, with the last publication to be not less
than ten (10) days prior to the date of the said election.  Only registered voters of the said municipality
or county shall have a right to vote at the said election.  The result of the said election shall be
proclaimed by the mayor of the municipality or by the county commissioners of the county, and the
result as proclaimed shall be conclusive, unless attacked in the courts within thirty (30) days after the
date of such proclamation.

Amended August 28, 1990.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 263 039.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***
                                
Article 10, section 39
39.  A program is hereby authorized to provide for the beneficial utilization of water resources within
the State of Oklahoma through the planning, development, construction, improvement, conservation,
ownership, operation and financing of water resource and sewage treatment works, facilities and
projects with state monies appropriated to the Statewide Water Development Revolving Fund and
monies in the Water Resources Fund.  State monies appropriated to the Statewide Water Development
Revolving Fund and monies in the Water Resources Fund shall be used only as authorized by the
Legislature to provide for the furnishing of financial assistance to municipalities, political subdivisions and
such other public entities of the state as may be designated by law as being eligible for such assistance
for water resource and sewage treatment purposes.  Any state liability arising from the implementation
of such a program shall be limited to those monies in the Statewide Water Development Revolving
Fund which have been reserved for the undertaking producing the liability.  The provisions of this
section shall be independent of and not be limited by the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of Article X
of the Oklahoma Constitution.

New. Added August 28, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 264 040.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 2000 ***

Article 10, section 40
40.  A.  There is hereby created a trust fund to be known as the "Tobacco Settlement Endowment
Trust Fund".  The trust fund principal shall consist of the portion of monies which are received by the
State of Oklahoma on or after July 1, 2001, pursuant to any settlement with or judgement against any
tobacco company or companies as provided by subsection B of this section, and any other monies that
may be appropriated or otherwise directed to the trust fund by the Legislature.

   B.  1.  Deposits into the trust fund from monies which are received by the State of Oklahoma
pursuant to any settlement with or judgment against any tobacco company or companies shall be based
on the following schedule:


                              Minimum Percentage
                Fiscal Year                          of Payments
                                                 Ending June 30, 2002              50%
                Ending June 30, 2003                                    55%     
                Ending June 30, 2004                                    60%
                Ending June 30, 2005                                    65%
                Ending June 30, 2006                                    70%
                Ending June 30, 2007                                    75%
     
   2.  Deposits into the trust fund in subsequent fiscal years shall never be less than seventy-five (75%)
of the payments.

   3.  The monies received by the State of Oklahoma pursuant to any settlement with or judgment
against any tobacco company or companies after June 30, 2001, not deposited into the trust fund as
provided in this section, shall be deposited into a special fund established by the Legislature solely for
the purpose of receiving the payments; provided, the Legislature may, by law, direct a certain portion of
such monies to be Office of the Attorney General.  The special fund shall be subject to legislative
appropriations. 

   C.  There is hereby created the Board of Investors of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
Fund.  The Board of Investors shall have the duty of investing monies in the trust fund, subject to
restrictions and limitations provided by law for and in accordance with laws applicable to the investment
of monies in state retirement funds.

   The Board of Investors shall consist of five (5) members as follows:

   1.  The State Treasurer who shall be the chair;

   2.  An appointee of the Governor;

   3.  An appointee of the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

   4.  An appointee of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; and

   5.  An appointee of the State Auditor and Inspector.

   The initial appointees shall serve staggered terms of office as provided for by law.  Thereafter,
appointees shall serve four-year terms of office.  No more than two appointees shall be appointed from
any single congressional district.  All appointed members shall have demonstrated expertise in public or
private investment funds management.

   D.  There is hereby created the Board of Directors of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
Fund.  The Board of Directors shall consist of seven (7) members, one appointed by each of the
following appointing authorities:

   1.  The Governor;

   2.  The President Pro Tempore of the Senate;

   3.  The Speaker of the House of Representatives;

   4.  The Attorney General;

   5.  The State Treasurer;

   6.  The State Auditor and Inspector; and

   7.  The State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

   The initial appointed members shall serve staggered terms of office as provided for by law. 
Thereafter, the appointed members of the Board of Directors shall serve seven-year terms of office.  At
least one appointee shall be appointed from each congressional district, and not more than two
appointees shall be appointed from any single congressional district.  Not more than four appointees
shall be members of the same political party.  An appointee shall have been a member of the political
party to which the appointee belongs for at least one (1) year prior to the date of appointment. 
Appointees shall have demonstrated expertise in public or private health care or programs related to or
for the benefit of children or senior adults.

   The Board of Directors shall meet at least one time each calendar quarter.

   E.  Earnings from the trust fund, including but not limited to interest, dividends, and realized capital
gains from investments of the trust fund shall be expended as provided in subsection F of this section for
the following purposes:

   1.  Clinical and basic research and treatment efforts in Oklahoma for the purpose of enhancing efforts
to prevent and combat cancer and other tobacco-related diseases;

   2.  Cost-effective tobacco prevention and cessation programs;

   3.  Programs other than those specified in paragraph 1 of this subsection designed to maintain or
improve the health of Oklahomans or to enhance the provision of health care services to Oklahomans,
with particular emphasis on such programs for children;

   4.  Programs and services for the benefit of the children Oklahoma, with particular emphasis on
common and higher education, before- and after-school and pre-school programs, substance abuse
prevention and treatment programs and other programs and services designed to improve the health
and quality of life of children;

   5.  Programs designed to enhance the health and well-being of senior adults; and

   6.  Authorized administrative expenses of the Office of the State Treasurer and the Board of
Directors.

   F.  Each fiscal year, the Board of Directors may expend the amount of earnings which actually
accrued to the trust fund during the preceding fiscal year.  Any amount not so expended shall remain in
the trust fund.  The Board shall direct specific expenditures to be made for the purposes specified in
subsection E of this section. 
 
   G.  The Legislature may enact laws to further implement the provisions of this section.

New.  Added November 7, 2000.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 265 042.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1988 ***

Article 10, section 42
42.  The Oklahoma Development Finance Authority is hereby authorized to issue general obligation
bonds, in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.0), for the purpose of
providing an economic development credit enhancement reserve fund for the Authority.  This fund shall
be used by the Authority solely to secure the payment of principal, interest and premium, if any, on the
revenue bonds and other financial obligations issued by the Authority after other pledged monies and
other reserve funds are used to the extent allowable by law.  The Legislature shall provide sufficient
appropriations to pay the principal and interest of any general obligation bonds issued pursuant to this
resolution.  Further, the Legislature shall establish a method by law to provide for issuance of the bonds
or portions thereof when it is necessary and to provide for administration of the economic development
credit enhancement reserve fund.

Amended September 20, 1988.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 266 043.0 010.0 0 OK 1907 1988 ***

Article 10, section 43        
43.  The State of Oklahoma may become indebted in an amount not to exceed.  Three Hundred Fifty
Million Dollars ($350,000.0) pursuant to the provisions of Enrolled House Bill No. 2428 of the 2nd
Session of the 43rd Oklahoma Legislature and any amendments thereto for the purpose of constructing
new buildings, remodeling, modernizing and repairing any and all existing buildings and providing other
capital improvements and for the purchase of land, equipment and furnishings necessary for such new
construction, remodeling or other capital improvements, including any costs of issuance associated with
the indebtedness, for the following departments of state government in the amounts and for the
purposes indicated as follows:

             1.     Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for expenditure as follows:

                                                                 a.   University of Oklahoma - Norman Campus            $22,731,000.0
                                                                      b.   University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center        $22,400.00.0
                                                                      c.   Oklahoma State University - Stillwater Campus          $22,328,000.0
                                                                      d.   Oklahoma State University - Agriculture Experiment     $  4,000,000.0
                                        Station
                                                                      e.   Oklahoma State University - Veterinary Medicine        $  5,075,000.0
                                                                      f.   Oklahoma State University - Technical Branch - Ok-     $  4,118,000.0
          mulgee
                                                                      g.   Oklahoma State University - Technical Branch - Okla-   $  3,868.00.0
          homa City
                                                                      h.   Oklahoma State University - College of Osteopathic     $  3,750.400.0
          Medicine
                                                                 i.   University of Central Oklahoma                    $  7,765.106.0
                                                            j.   East Central University                      $  5,869.00.0
                                                            k.   Northeastern State University                $  8,813.400.0
                                                                 l.   Northwestern Oklahoma State University            $  2,860.00.0
                                                                 m.   Southeastern Oklahoma State University            $  5,586.900.0
                                                                 n.   Southwestern Oklahoma State University - Weather- $  6,297.500.0
          ford Campus
                                                                      o.   Southwestern Oklahoma State University - Sayre Cam-    $     300,000.0
                 pus
                                                            p.   Cameron University                           $10,200.00.0
                                                            q.   Langston University                          $  2,842,500.0
                                                                 r.   Oklahoma Panhandle State University               $  2,016,500.0
                                                                 s.   University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma        $  3,104.376.0
                                                                 t.   University Center at Tulsa                        $15,000,000.0
                                                                 u.   Carl Albert State College                         $  3,021,000.0
                                                            v.   Connors State College                        $  2,055,100.0
                                                                 w.   Eastern Oklahoma State College                    $  2,007,600.0
                                                                 x.   Murray State College                              $  2,045,000.0
                                                                 y.   Northeastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical $  2,410,400.0
          College
                                                                 z.   Northern Oklahoma College                         $  1,206,500.0
                                                                 aa.  Oklahoma City Community College                   $  6,152,100.0
                                                            bb.  Redlands Community College                   $  2,003,900.0
                                                                 cc.  Rogers State College                              $  5,035,100.0
                                                            dd.  Rose State College                           $  6,158.600.0
                                                            ee.  Seminole Junior College                      $  2,125.924.0
                                                                 ff.  Tulsa Junior College                              $22,333,800.0
                                                                 gg.  Western Oklahoma State College                    $  2,500,000.0
                                                            hh.  Enid Higher Education Program                $     619,123.0

   Commercial leases shall not exceed fifty-five (55) years.  The granting of any commercial lease in
excess of three (3) years shall be by public bidding at not less than fair market value.  All commercial
leases shall provide for fair market value throughout the term of the lease.

   Agricultural leases of trust property shall be limited to a maximum of five (5) years and shall be by
pubic bidding at not less than fair market value.

   The granting of any interest in trust property at less than fair market value or not in compliance with
this section is void.

   Any permanent improvement made on commercial trust property from and after the passage of this
amendment shall revert to the trust at the end of the lease.

   The Legislature shall enact the laws necessary to implement the provisions of this section and to foster
the fair and equitable administration of trust property.

New.  Added August 23, 1988.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 267 001.0 012.0 0 OK 1907 1997 ***

Article 12, section 1
   A.  The homestead of any person in this State, not within any city or town, shall consist of not more
than one hundred sixty acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels, to be selected by the
owner.

   B.  Effective November 1, 1997, the homestead of any person in this state, not within any city or
town, annexed by a city of town on or after November 1, 1997, owned and occupied and used for
both residential and commercial agricultural purposes shall consist of not more than one hundred sixty
acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels, to be selected by the owner.

   C.  The homestead of any person within any city or town, owned and occupied as a residence only,
or used for both residential and business purposes, shall consist of not exceeding one acre of land, to be
selected by the owner.

   For purposes of this subsection, at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the total square foot area of
the improvements for which a homestead exemption is claimed must be used as the principal residence
in order to qualify for the exemption.  If more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total square foot
area of the improvements for which homestead exemption is claimed is used for business purposes, the
homestead exemption amount shall not exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.0).

   D.  Nothing in the laws of the United States, or any treaties with the Indian Tribes in the State, shall
deprive any Indian or other allottee of the benefit of the homestead and exemption laws of the State.

   E.  Any temporary renting of the homestead shall not change the character of the same when no other
homestead has been acquired.

Amended by Laws 1997, c. 104,  1, eff. Nov. 1, 1997; Laws 1997, c. 345,  eff. Nov. l, 1997.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 268 001.A 023.0 0 OK 1907 2001 ***

Article 23, section 1-A
1-A.   A.  As used in this section, "labor organization" means any organization of any kind, 20 or
agency or employee representation committee or union, that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part,
of dealing with employees concerning wages, rates of pay, hours of work, other conditions of
employment, or other forms of compensation.

   B.  No person shall be required, as a condition of employment or continuation of employment, to:

   1.  Resign or refrain from voluntary membership in, voluntary affiliation with, or voluntary financial
support of a labor organization;

   2.  Become or remain a member of a labor organization;

   3.  Pay any dues, fees, assessments, or other charges of any kind or amount to a labor organization;

   4.  Pay to any charity or other third party, in lieu of such payments, any amount equivalent to or pro
rata portion of dues, fees, assessments, or other charges regularly required of members of a labor
organization; or

   5.  Be recommended, approved, referred, or cleared by or through a labor organization.

   C.  It shall be unlawful to deduct from the wages, earning, or compensation of an employee any union
dues, assessments, or other charges to be held for, transferred to, or paid over to a labor organization
unless the employee has first authorized such deduction.

   D.  The provisions of this section shall apply to all employment contracts entered into after the
effective date of this section and shall apply to any renewal or extension of any existing contract.

   E.  Any person who directly or indirectly violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.

New.  Added September 25, 2001.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 269 004.0 023.0 0 OK 1907 1986 ***
                                
Article 23, section 4
4.  Boys and girls under the age of eighteen years shall not be employed, underground, in the operation
of mines; and, except in cases of emergency, eight hours shall constitute a day's work underground in
all mines in the State.

Amended November 4, 1986.
                                
*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 270 007.0 023.0 0 OK 1907 1985 ***

Article 23, section 7
7.  The right of action to recover damages for injuries resulting in death shall never be abrogated, and
the amount recoverable shall not be subject to any statutory limitation, provided however, that the
Legislature may provide an amount of compensation under the Worker's Compensation Law   for
death resulting from injuries suffered in employment covered by such law, in which case the
compensation so provided shall be exclusive, and the Legislature may enact statutory limits on the
amount recoverable in civil actions or claims against the state or any of its political subdivisions.

Amended April 30, 1985.


*** MEND***
*** MSTART 271 012.0 023.0 0 OK 1907 1992 ***

Article 23, section 12
12.  All the proceeds, assets and income of any public retirement system administered by an agency of
the State of Oklahoma shall be held, invested, or disbursed as provided for by law as in trust for the
exclusive purpose of providing for benefits, refunds, investment management, and administrative
expenses of the individual public retirement system, and shall not be encumbered for or diverted to any
other purposes.

New.  Added November 3, 1992.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 272 001.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 1 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 273 002.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 2 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 274 003.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 3 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 275 004.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 4 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 276 005.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 5 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 277 006.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 6 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 278 007.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 7 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 279 008.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 8 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 280 009.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 9 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 281 010.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 10 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 282 011.0 027.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 27, section 11 repealed September 18, 1984.  See amendment number 294.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 283 001.0 028 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 1
1.  There is hereby created the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission.  The purpose of
the Commission shall be to enforce the alcoholic beverage laws of the State, and the Commission shall
have such power and authority to enforce such laws, rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the
legislature.

   The commission shall consist of seven (7) members, to be appointed by the Governor with the advice
and consent of the State Senate.  Five (5) of the members shall be at-large members representing the
lay citizenry.  The remaining two (2) members shall be persons with law enforcement experience in the
State.  Any time there is a vacancy on the Commission the Governor shall appoint a replacement, with
the advice and consent of the State Senate, within ninety (90) days.  Members of the Commission shall
be appointed for a term of five (5) years.  The Commission shall appoint a Director, whose duties shall
be defined by the Legislature.  No more than four (4) members of the Commission shall be appointed
from the same political party.  No more than two (2) members of the Commission shall be appointed
from the same federal congressional district.

   No members of the Commission shall hold any license authorized by this Article, or have any interest
in any capacity, in the manufacture, sale, distribution or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

   The members of the Commission shall be removable from office for cause as other officers not
subject to impeachment.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 284 001.A 028.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 1-A
1-A.   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall continue to exist and operate after passage of this
Article, until such time as the Commission is fully constituted, at which time the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board shall be abolished.  The present five (5) members of the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board shall automatically become the five (5) at-large members on the initial transition Commission. 
For purposes of the initial transition Commission the five (5) year term of appointment shall not apply to
these at-large members.  These members shall serve from the date of the Commissions's constitution
until the time that their terms on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board would have expired, at which
time a replacement at-large members shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent
of the Senate, within ninety(90) days.  The other two (2) members with law enforcement experience in
the state shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the State Senate, within
ninety (90) days after passage of this Article.  For purposes of the initial transition Commission the
prohibitions against appointing more than two (2) members from any federal congressional district and
more than four (4) members from the same political party shall not apply.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 285 002.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 2
2.  The terms and provisions of this Amendment, and laws enacted by the legislature pursuant hereto,
shall not include nor apply to any beer or cereal malt beverage containing not more than three and two-
tenths percent (3.2%) of alcohol by weight; provided, however, nothing shall prohibit a person
authorized to sell alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-premises consumption from also
becoming qualified to sell any beer or cereal malt beverage containing not more than three and two-
tenths percent (3.2%) of alcohol by weight in the same location.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 286 003.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 2000 ***

Article 28, section 3
3.  The Legislature shall enact laws providing for the strict regulation, control, licensing, and taxation of
the manufacture, sale, distribution, possession, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, consistent
with the provisions of this Amendment.  Provided, that any manufacturer, or subsidiary of any
manufacturer who markets his product solely through a subsidiary or subsidiaries, a distiller, rectifier,
bottler, winemaker, brewer, or importer or alcoholic beverages, bottled or made in a foreign country,
either within or without this state, shall be required to sell such brands or kinds of alcoholic beverages
to every licenses wholesale distributor who desires to purchase the same, on the same price basis and
without discrimination, and shall further be required to sell such beverages only to those distributors
licenses as wholesale distributors.  Winemakers either within or without this state shall be required to
sell wine they produce to every licensed wholesale distributor who desires to purchase the wine, but
winemakers shall not be required to sell the wine they produce only to licenses wholesale distributors. 
Winemakers may sell wine produced at the winery to consumers on the premises of the winery. 
Oklahoma winemakers may sell and ship the wine they produce at wineries in this state directly to retail
package stores and restaurants in this state.  As used in this section, "restaurant" means an
establishment that is licenses to sell alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-premises
consumption and where food is prepared and sold for immediate consumption on the premises.  All
laws passed by the Legislature under the authority of the Article shall be consistent with this provision.

Amended November 7, 2000.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 287 004.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 1994 ***

Article 28, section 4
4.  Except as hereinafter provided, retail sales of alcoholic beverages shall be limited to the original
sealed package, by privately owned and operated package stores, in cities and towns having a
population in excess of two hundred (200) persons or by wineries; provided that wineries shall be able
to sell only wine which has been produced on the winery premises.  No goods, wares, or merchandise
shall be sold and no services shall be rendered on the same premises on which retail package alcoholic
beverages are sold.  Said premises are herein defined to be the entire space in which retail package
alcoholic beverages are sold or displayed and said premises must be separated from any premises on
which any other goods, wares, or merchandise are sold or services rendered by walls which may only
be broken by a passageway to which the public is not admitted; provided, the restriction on the sale of
merchandise and rendering of services shall not apply to the premises of a winery.

   Not more than one retail package license shall be issued to any person or general or limited
partnership.

   Retail sale of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-premises consumption is hereby
authorized within a county if the voters of such county have previously approved such retail sale at an
election.

Amended November 8, 1994.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 288 005.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 5
5.  It shall be unlawful for any licensee to sell or furnish any alcoholic beverage to:

   A person under twenty-one (21) years of age; or

   A person who has been adjudged insane or mentally deficient; or
   
   A person who is intoxicated.

   Sales, gifts, or deliveries to persons under twenty-one (21) years of age shall be deemed a felony;
and any license issued pursuant to any law, in compliance with this Amendment, shall be revoked, upon
conviction for such sale, gift, or delivery.

   It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to advertise the sale of alcoholic beverages
within the State of Oklahoma, except by a sign at retail package stores bearing the words "Retail
Alcoholic Liquor Store."

   Sales to insane, mentally deficient, or intoxicated persons shall be deemed a felony.

   Any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years who misrepresents his age, for the purpose of
obtaining the purchase of any alcoholic beverage, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 289 006.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 6
6.  (a) It shall be unlawful for any retail package store to sell, at retail, any alcoholic beverage:

   On the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday;

   On the day of any National, State, County or City Election, including primary elections, during the
hours the polls are open; and

   On Decoration or Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas
Day.

   (b) The voters of any county electing to authorize sales of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink
for on-premises consumption under  4 hereof may designate as days on which such sales are not
authorized, any or all of those days listed in subsection (2) of this section.  It shall be unlawful for any
licensee or person to make any such sale within any such county on days so designated.

   (c) Any licensee or person violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and any license issued pursuant to provisions of this act shall be revoked upon conviction
for such sale in violation of this section.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

*** MEND ***
*** MSTART 290 007.0 028.0 0 OK 1907 1984 ***

Article 28, section 7
7.  The retail sale of alcoholic beverages shall be subject to the sales tax statutes enacted by the
Legislature and in addition thereto the Legislature may levy taxes upon the manufacture, possession
sand/or all sales of alcoholic beverages, including sales by retail package stores and sales by the
individual drink for on-premises consumption, the proceeds of which, except sales tax, shall be
distributed as follows:

   (a) The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall collect and distribute the taxes collected under the terms of
this Article and shall distribute ninety-seven percent (97%) of such taxes as are levied and as are
attributable to retail sales by package stores as follows:

   (1) One-third ( ) of taxes attributable to sales by retail package stores shall be allocated to the
counties of the State of Oklahoma on the basis of area and population (giving equal weight to area and
population) and all of said funds shall be appropriated by the Board of County Commissioners in each
county to all incorporated cities and towns in said county on the basis of population within each city and
town on a per capita basis based on the last preceding Federal Decennial Census.

   (2) Two-thirds ( ) of taxes attributable to sales by retail package stores shall be credited to the
General Revenue Fund of the State of Oklahoma.

   (b) The remaining three per cent (3%) of taxes attributable to sales of alcoholic beverages by retain
package stores; and up to (3%) of taxes attributable to sales of alcoholic beverages by the individual
drink for on-premises consumption, as shall be determined by the State Legislature; shall be paid to the
State Treasury and placed to the credit of the Oklahoma Tax Commission Fund, to be paid out of said
fund pursuant to appropriations made by the State Legislature.

   (c) The remaining taxes attributable to sales of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-
premises consumption, shall be credited to the General Revenue Fund of the State of Oklahoma.  The
State Legislature shall appropriate to the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement
Commission from all available taxes collected under this Article, whatever funds are necessary to
provide for full enforcement of the alcoholic beverage laws of the State.

   (d) All State license fees shall be collected by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement
Commission and deposited in the State Treasury and after the expenses of the Commission, as
approved by the legislature, have been deducted, the balance shall be credited to the General Fund.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

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Article 28, section 8
8.  The State of Oklahoma, or any political subdivision thereof, or any board, commission or agency
thereof, is hereby prohibited from engaging in any phase of the alcoholic beverage business, including
the manufacture, sale, transportation, or distribution thereof, at wholesale or retail, and the maintenance,
ownership, or operation of warehouses or alcoholic beverage stores; except that if the voters of a
county in which a state lodge is located approve retail sale of alcoholic beverages by the individual
drink for on-premises consumption, and if the State Legislature enacts legislation approving such sales
in any such lodges located in any such counties, then such sales are authorized.  The Legislature may
enact laws restricting the involvement of officers and employees of the state and political subdivisions
thereof in the alcoholic business.

   Provided, that nothing herein shall prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages legally confiscated as
provided by law.

Amended September 18, 1990.

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Article 28, section 9
9.  Incorporated cities and towns wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages is lawful, may levy an
occupation tax, not exceeding the amount of the State license fees, for the manufacture, distribution, or
sale of alcoholic beverages.

Added September 18, 1984.

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Article 28, section 1
1.  No retail package store or wholesale distributor's license shall be issued to:

   (a) A corporation, business trust or secret partnership.

   (b) A person or partnership unless such person or all of the copartners including limited partners shall
have been residents of the State of Oklahoma for at least ten (10) years immediately preceding the date
of application for such license.

   (c) A person or a general or limited partnership containing a partner who has been convicted of a
violation of a prohibitory law relating to the sale, manufacture, or the transportation of alcoholic
beverages which constituted a felony or misdemeanor.

   (d) A person or a general or limited partnership containing a partner who has been convicted of a
felony.

   No license to sell alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-premises consumption shall be
issued to:

   (a) A person or a general or limited partnership containing a partner who has been convicted or a
violation of a prohibitory law relating to the sale, manufacture, or the transportation of alcoholic
beverages which constituted a felony.

   (b) A person or a general or limited partnership containing a partner who has been convicted of a
felony.

   (c) A corporation which has an officer or director who has been convicted of a violation of a
prohibitory law relating to the sale, manufacture, or the transportation of alcoholic beverages which
constituted a felony.

   (d) A corporation which has an officer or director who has been convicted of a felony.  

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

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Article 28, section 11
11.  Article XXVII of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma is hereby repealed.  The Prohibition
Ordinance and Section 7, Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, previously repealed
by Article XXVII of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, are not revived by this repealer.

New.  Added September 18, 1984.

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Article 29, section 1
1.   Ethics Commission-Appointments-Qualifications-Terms-Vacancies-Quorum.
A.  There is hereby created the Ethics Commission which shall consist of five members.  The Governor,
Attorney General, president Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall each appoint a person who is a registered voter of this State to
the Commission.  The initial terms of the Governor's and Attorney General's appointees shall be one
year; the initial terms of the President Pro Tempore's and Speaker's appointees shall be three years,
and the initial term of the Chief Justice's appointee shall be five years.  B.  No congressional district
shall be represented by more than one Commissioner, and no more that three persons of the same
political registration shall serve on the Ethics Commission at the same time.  C.  After the initial terms,
members of the Ethics Commission shall serve terms of five years.  No person shall be appointed to the
Commission more than two times in succession, except the initial members who serve less than five-
year terms may be appointed three times in succession.  A vacancy on the Commission shall be filled
for the remainder of the unexpired term by the appointing authority.  D.  The members of the
Commission shall choose a chair from among themselves.  E.  The term of office for a Commissioner
shall commence at noon on the second Monday in July.  F.  No member of the Ethics Commission shall
be eligible for elected office for two years after completing his or her term.  G.  A majority of the
members serving shall constitute a quorum.  

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 2
2.  Appropriation-Compensation-Staff.  A.  The Ethics Commission shall receive an annual
appropriation by the Legislature sufficient to enable it to perform its duties as set forth in this
Constitutional Amendment.  Any funds appropriated to the Ethics Commission, which remain unspent
at the end of the fiscal year shall be returned to the general revenue fund.  The Commission shall present
its proposed budget to the Governor and the Legislature on the second day of each legislative session. 
B.  The commissioners shall receive reimbursement for travel, lodging, and meals while on official
business as provided for other officers of the State, but they shall not be otherwise compensated.  C. 
The Commission may employ an executive director and other staff, including attorney, necessary to
fulfill its duties.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 3
3.  Ethics Rules.  A.  After public hearing, the Ethics Commission shall promulgate rules of ethical
conduct for campaigns for elective state office and for campaigns for initiatives and referenda, including
civil penalties for violation of these rules.  B.  After public hearing, the Ethics Commission shall
promulgate rules of ethical conduct for state officers and employees, including civil penalties for
violation of these rules.  C.  Newly promulgated rules shall be presented to each House of the
Legislature and to the Governor on the second day of each session of the Legislature.  If these rules are
not disapproved by joint resolution, subject to veto by the Governor, during the same legislative
session, they shall be effective.  In the event the Governor vetoes a joint resolution disapproving any
Ethics Commission's rules, the procedure shall be the same as for the veto of any other bill or joint
resolution.  Effective Ethics Commission rules shall be published in the official statutes of the State.  D. 
Effective Ethics Commission rules may be repealed or modified by the Commission, and the repeal or
modification shall be submitted to the Legislature and the Governor in the same manner as newly
promulgated rules.  Effective Ethics Commission rules may also be repealed or modified by law passed
by a majority vote of each House of the Legislature.  If the Governor vetoes such a law, the procedure
shall be the same as for the veto of any other bill or joint resolution.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 4.
4.  Investigation-Decision-Subpoena Power.  A.  The Ethics Commission shall investigate and, when it
deems appropriate, prosecute in the District Court of the County where the violation occurred,
violations of its rules governing ethical conduct of campaigns, state officers, and state employees. 
Where uncertainty exists as to the County in which the violation occurred, the Commission may
prosecute in any County in which the evidence indicates the violation might have been committed.  The
Court may assess penalties for violation of ethical standards established by the Commission as provided
in the Commissions's rules.  The Commission may settle investigations and accept payment of fines
without Court order.  Fines paid shall be deposited in the general revenue fund of the State.  B.  The
Commission shall also enforce other ethics laws as prescribed by law.  C.  For purposes of its
investigations, the Ethics Commission shall have subpoena power.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 5
5.  Ethics Interpretations.  The Ethics Commission may respond, pursuant to its rules, to questions of
specific individuals seeking an interpretation of the Commission's rules governing ethical conduct for
campaigns, state officers or state employees.  Any such official interpretation of ethics rules shall be
binding on the Commission.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 6
6.  Criminal Penalties.  This Article shall not prevent enactment of laws prohibiting certain conduct by
political candidates, government officers, government employees, or other persons and providing
criminal penalties for such conduct.  It also shall not prevent enactment of laws governing ethical
conduct of local political subdivision officers and employees, nor shall it prevent enactment of law
governing conditions of state government employment.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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Article 29, section 7
7.  Removal.  A Commissioner shall only be removed from office pursuant to the provisions of Article
VIII of this Constitution.

New.  Added September 18, 1990.

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