This is ready to go JW 7/31/03 *** CSTART WY 09/30/1889 12/31/2000 *** *** MSTART 001 009.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1909 *** Article XV, Section 9. The Legislature shall provide by law for a State Board of Equalization. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 002 006.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1915 *** Article VII. Section 6. All funds belonging to the state for public school purposes, the interest and income of which only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds in the care of the state, which shall keep them for the exclusive benefit of the public schools, and shall make good any losses that may in any manner occur, so that the same shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished. None of such funds shall ever be invested or loaned except on the bonds issued by school districts, or county bonds of the state, or state securities of this state, or of the United States, or on first mortgages on farm lands or such other securities as may be authorized by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 003 009.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1915 *** Article XVI. Section 9. The provisions of Section 6 of Article 16 of this Constitution prohibiting the state from engaging in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the people shall not apply to or affect the construction or improvement of the public roads or highways, but the legislature shall have power to provide for the construction and improvement of public roads and highways in whole or in part by the state, either directly or by extending aid to counties; and, notwithstanding said inhibition as to works of internal improvement, whenever grants of land or other property shall have been made to the state, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works and of internal improvement, the state may carry on such particular works and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and may pledge or appropriate the revenues derived from such works in the aid of their completion. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 004 006.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1917 *** Article V. Section 6. In case a Justice of the Supreme Court shall for any reason be unable to sit in any cause in said Court, the presiding Justice of said Court shall call one of the District Judges to sit as a member of said Court on the hearing of said cause. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 005 010.0 019.0 0 WY 1889 1917 *** Article 19. Section 10. On and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, wine, ale, porter, beer or any intoxicating drink, mixture or preparation of like nature, except as hereinafter provided, are hereby prohibited in this State. Provided however, that the manufacture and sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicinal, pharmaceutical, mechanical, sacramental, and scientific purposes, and the manufacture and sale of denatured alcohol for industrial purposes may be permitted under such regulations as the legislature may prescribe. The legislature shall, without delay, enact such laws, with regulations, conditions, securities and penalties as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 006 005.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1919 *** Article XVI. Section 5. No city, town or village, or any sub-division thereof, or any sub-division of any county of the State of Wyoming, shall, in any manner, create any indebtedness exceeding 2 per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein; provided, however, that any city, town or village, may be authorized to create an additional indebtedness, not exceeding 4 per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein as shown by the last preceding general assessment, for the purpose of building sewerage therein; and provided further, that any school district may be authorized to create an additional indebtedness, not exceeding 4 per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein as shown by the last preceding general assessment, for the purpose of the erection or enlargement of school buildings therein; debts contracted for supplying water to such city or town are excepted from the operation of this section. [Note that in the session laws of Wyoming for 1919, two lines of the text of this amendment are transposed. We have reversed the lines.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 007 003.0 018.0 0 WY 1889 1921 *** Article XVIII. Section 3. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall constitute a Board of Land Commissioners, which under direction of the Legislature as limited by this constitution, shall have direction, control, leasing and disposal of lands of the state granted, or which may be hereafter granted for the support and benefit of public schools, subject to the further limitations that the sale of all lands shall be at public auction, after such delay (not less than the time fixed by congress) in portions at proper intervals of time, and at such minimum prices (not less than the minimum fixed by congress) as to realize the largest possible proceeds. And said Board, subject to the limitations of this constitution and under such regulations as may be provided by law shall have the direction, control, disposition and care of all lands that have been heretofore or may hereafter be granted to the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 008 002.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1923 *** Article VII. Section 2. SCHOOL REVENUES. The following are declared to be perpetual funds for school purposes, of which the annual income only can be appropriated, to-wit: Such per centum as has been or may hereafter be granted by congress on the sale of lands in this state; all moneys arising from the sale or lease of sections number sixteen and thirty-six in each township in the state, and the lands selected or that may be selected in lieu thereof; the proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to this state, where by the terms and conditions of the grant, the same are not to be otherwise appropriated; the net proceeds of lands and other property and effects that may come to the state by escheat or forfeiture , or from unclaimed dividends or distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons; all moneys, stocks, bonds, lands and other property now belonging to the common school funds. PROVIDED, that the rents for the ordinary use of said lands shall be applied to the support of public schools and, when authorized by general law, not to exceed thirty-three and one-third (33 1-3) per centum of oil, gas, coal, or other mineral royalties arising from the lease of any said school lands may be so applied. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 009 010.0 019.0 0 WY 1889 1933 *** Article XIX. Section 10. On and after the first day of March, 1935, the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of malt, vinous or spiritous liquors, wine, ale, porter, beer or any intoxicating drink, mixture or preparation of like nature may be permitted in the State of Wyoming under such regulation as the legislature may prescribe. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 010 007.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1937 *** Article XV. Section 7. All money belonging to the state or to any county, city, town, village or other subdivision therein, except as herein otherwise provided, shall, whenever practicable, be deposited in a national bank or banks or in a bank or banks incorporated under the laws of this State; provided, that the bank or banks in which such money is deposited shall furnish security to be approved as provided by law; and provided further, that such bank or banks shall pay the same rate of interest on any money so deposited therein on time certificates of deposit by the legal custodian or custodians of any such public moneys as such bank or banks pay on time certificates of deposit of private depositors, and the custodian or custodians of any such public moneys shall be authorized to deposit same under time certificates of deposit as may be provided by law. Such interest shall accrue to the fund from which it is derived. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 011 010.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1939 *** Article XVI. Section 10. The provisions of Section 6 of Article 16 of this Constitution prohibiting the State from engaging in any work of internal improvements, unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the people, shall not apply to or affect the construction or improvement of any works designed, constructed or operated for the purposes of conservation or utilization of water, but the Legislature shall have the power to provide for the construction or improvement in whole or in part, of any works designed, constructed or operated for the purposes of conservation or utilization of water, either directly or by extending aid to legal sub-divisions of the State of Wyoming, duly organized irrigation, drainage, soil conservation, and public irrigation and power districts, and any public corporation legally organized for the purposes of the conservation, distribution or utilization of water or soil; and not withstanding said inhibition as to works of internal improvement, whenever grants of land or other property shall be made to the state, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of internal improvement, the state may carry on such particular works of internal improvement and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and may likewise pledge or appropriate the revenues derived from such works in aid of their completion. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 012 003.0 014.0 0 WY 1889 1943 *** Article XIV, Section 3. The legislature shall by law designate county offices and shall, from time to time, fix the salaries of county officers, which shall in all cases be in proportion to the value of the services rendered and the duties performed. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 013 022.0 006.0 0 WY 1889 1944 *** Article VI. Section 22. The provisions of Section 11 of Article 6 of this Constitution, which provide that the ballots therein mentioned shall be delivered on election day to the voters within the polling place by sworn public officials, and that only such ballots so delivered shall be received and counted, shall not be applicable to, affect or invalidate absent voter ballots and voting thereof and registration therefor, as provided by Article 14, of Chapter 36, Wyoming Revised Statues, 1931, and other Acts of The Legislature of the State of Wyoming, amendatory thereof or related thereto, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 014 051.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1947 *** Article III. Section 51. When vacancies shall occur in the membership of either House of the Legislature of the State of Wyoming through death, resignation or other cause, such vacancies shall be filled in such manner as may be prescribed by law, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 of Article III of the Constitution which is by this section repealed. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 080 004.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1947 *** Repealed. [This section was repealed by the amendment creating Article III. Section 51. When vacancies shall occur in the membership of either House of the Legislature of the State of Wyoming through death, resignation or other cause, such vacancies shall be filled in such manner as may be prescribed by law, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 of Article III of the Constitution which is by this section repealed.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 015 011.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1947 *** Article XVI. Section 11. The provisions of Section 6 of Article XVI of this Constitution prohibiting the State from engaging in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the people shall not apply to or affect the construction, maintenance, or improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities but the Legislature shall have power to provide for the construction, maintenance and improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities, but the Legislature shall have power to provide for the construction, maintenance and improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities, in whole or in part by the State, either directly or by extending aid to its political subdivisions and, notwithstanding said inhibition as to works of internal improvement, whenever grants of land or other property shall have been made to the State, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of internal improvement, the State may carry on such particular works and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and may pledge or appropriate the revenues derived from such works in the aid of their completion and maintenance. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 016 015.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1947 *** Article XV. Section 15. For the support of the public schools in the State there may be levied each year a state tax not exceeding six mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in the State. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 017 029.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1947 *** Article V. Section 29. The legislature may by general law provide for such Juvenile Delinquency and Domestic Relations Courts as may be needed, and for the number, qualifications and election of judges of such Courts. Appeals shall lie in such cases and pursuant to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. Such courts shall have such jurisdiction as the Legislature may by law provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 018 016.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1953 *** Article XV. Section 16. No moneys derived from fees, excises. Or license taxes levied by the State and exclusive of registration fees and licenses or excise taxes imposed by a county or municipality, relating to registration, operation or use of vehicles on public highways, streets or alleys, or to fuels used for propelling such vehicles, shall be expended for other than cost of administering such laws, statutory refunds and adjustments allowed therein, payment of highway obligations, costs for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of public highways, county roads, bridges and streets, alleys and bridges in cities and towns, and expense of enforcing state traffic laws. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 019 017.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1953 *** Article V. Section 17. The judges of the supreme and district courts shall receive such compensation for their services as may be prescribed by law, which compensation shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which a judge shall have been elected, and the salary of a judge of the supreme or district court shall be as may be prescribed by law; provided, however, that when any legislative increase or decrease in the salary of the Justices or Judges of such courts whose respective terms of office do not expire at the same time, has heretofore or shall hereafter become effective as to any member of such court, it shall be effective from such date as to each of the members thereof. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 020 005.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1953 *** Article XVI. Section 5. No city, town or village, or any subdivision thereof, or any subdivision of any county of the state of Wyoming, shall, in any manner, create any indebtedness exceeding two per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein; provided, however, that any city, town or village may be authorized to create an additional indebtedness, not exceeding 4 per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein as shown by he last preceding general assessment, for the purpose of building sewerage therein; and provided further, that any school district may be authorized to create an additional indebtedness, not exceeding eight (8) per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property therein as shown by the last preceding general assessment, for the purpose of the erection or enlargement of school buildings therein; debts contracted for supplying water to such city or town are excepted from the operation of this section. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 021 012.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1955 *** Article XV. Section 12. The property of the United States, the State, counties, cities, towns, school districts and municipal corporations, when used primarily for a governmental purpose, and public libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for religious worship, church parsonages, church schools and public cemeteries, shall be exempt from taxation, and such other property as the legislature may by general law provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 022 004.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1957 *** Article V. Section 4. The supreme court of the state shall consist of four justices who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at a general election at the times and places at which state officers are elected; and their term of office shall be eight (8) years, commencing from and after the first Monday in January next succeeding their election, provided that the first term of the additional justice authorized by this amendment shall be four years only. The justice having the shortest time remaining unserved of a full eight-year term shall be the chief justice and shall preside at all terms of the supreme court, and in case of his absence, the justice having in like manner the next shortest term to serve shall preside in his stead. If a vacancy occur in the office of a justice of the supreme court, the governor shall appoint a person to hold the office until the election and qualification of a person to fill the unexpired term occasioned by such vacancy, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general election. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 023 006.0 010.0 0 WY 1889 1959 *** Article X. Section 6. Corporations shall have power to engage in such and as many lines or departments of business as the legislature shall provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 024 005.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1961 *** Article XVI. Section 5. No city or town shall in any manner create any indebtedness exceeding four per cent (4%) of the assessed value of the taxable property therein, except that an additional indebtedness of four per cent (4%) of the assessed value of the taxable property therein may be created for sewage disposal systems. Indebtedness created for supplying water to Cities or Towns is excepted from the limitation herein. No county shall in any manner create any indebtedness exceeding two per cent (2%) of the taxable property therein. No school district shall in any manner create any indebtedness exceeding ten per cent (10%) on the assessed value of the taxable property therein for the purpose of acquiring land, erection, enlargement and equipping of school buildings. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 025 007.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1961 *** Article III. Section 7. The legislature shall meet at the seat of the government at twelve o'clock noon, on the second Tuesday of January, next, succeeding the general election provided by law, at twelve o'clock noon, on the second Tuesday of January of each alternate year thereafter, and at other times when convened by the governor. The governor by proclamation may also, in times of war or grave emergency by law defined, temporarily convene the legislature at a place or places other than the seat of government. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 026 017.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Article XV. Section 17. There shall be levied each year in each county of the State a tax of twelve mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in each county for the support and maintenance of the public schools. This tax shall be collected by the county treasurer and disbursed among the school districts within the county as the Legislature shall provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 027 001.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Article V. Section 1. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, district courts, and such subordinate courts as the legislature may, by general law, establish and ordain from time to time. (Repeals sections 22 and 23 of Article V and Section 5 of Article 19) *** MEND *** *** MSTART 081 022.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Repealed [This section was repealed by an amendment amending Article V. Section 1. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, district courts, and such subordinate courts as the legislature may, by general law, establish and ordain from time to time. (Repeals sections 22 and 23 of Article V and Section 5 of Article 19)] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 082 023.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Repealed [This section was repealed by an amendment amending Article V. Section 1. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, district courts, and such subordinate courts as the legislature may, by general law, establish and ordain from time to time. (Repeals sections 22 and 23 of Article V and Section 5 of Article 19)] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 083 005.0 019.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Repealed [This section was repealed by an amendment amending Article V. Section 1. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, district courts, and such subordinate courts as the legislature may, by general law, establish and ordain from time to time. (Repeals sections 22 and 23 of Article V and Section 5 of Article 19)] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 028 038.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Article III. Section 38. The legislature may authorize the investment of trust funds by executors, administrators, guardians or trustees, in the bonds or stocks of private corporations, and in such other securities as it may by law provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 029 048.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Article III. Section 48. The legislature at the session next following the decennial enumeration of the inhabitants of the state made by the authority of the United States, shall revise and adjust the apportionment for senators and representatives, on a basis of such enumeration according to ratios to be fixed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 030 049.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1965 *** Article III. Section 49. Congressional Districts may be altered from time to time as public convenience may require. When a Congressional District shall be composed of two or more counties they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. No county shall be divided in the formation of Congressional Districts. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 031 005.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1967 *** Article XV. Section 5. For county revenue, there shall be levied annually a tax not to exceed twelve mills on the dollar for all purposes including general school tax, exclusive of state revenue , except for the payment of its public debt and the interest thereon. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 032 052.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1967 *** Article III. Section 52. (a) The people may propose and enact laws by the initiative, and approve or reject acts of the legislature by the referendum. (b) An initiative or referendum is proposed by an application containing the bill to be initiated or the act to be referred. The application shall be signed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified voters as sponsors, and shall be filed with the secretary of state. If he finds it in proper form he shall so certify. Denial of certification shall be subject to judicial review. (c) After certification of the application, a petition containing a summary of the subject matter shall be prepared by the secretary of state for circulation by the sponsors. If signed by qualified voters, equal in number to fifteen per cent (15%) of those who voted in the preceding general election and resident in at least two-thirds (2/3) of the counties of the state, it may be filed with the secretary of state. (d) An initiative petition may be filed at any time except that one may not be filed for a measure substantially the same as that defeated by an initiative election within the preceding (5) years. The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the proposed law, and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred twenty (120) days after adjournment of the legislative session following the filing. If, before the election, substantially the same measure has been enacted, the petition is void. (e) A referendum petition may be filed only within ninety (90) days after adjournment of the legislative session at which the act was passed, except that a referendum petition respecting any act previously passed by the legislature may be filed within six months after the power of referendum is adopted, The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the act and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred eighty (180) days after adjournment of that session. (f) If votes in an amount in excess of fifty per cent (50%) of those voting in the preceding general election are cast in favor of adoption of an initiated measure, the measure is enacted; if votes in an amount in excess of fifty per cent (505) of those who voted in the preceding general election are cast in favor of rejection of an act referred, it is rejected. The secretary of state shall certify the election returns. An initiated law becomes effective ninety (90) days after certification, is not subject to veto, and may not be repealed by the legislature within two (2) years of its effective date. It may be amended at any time. An act rejected by referendum is void thirty (30) days after certification. Additional procedures for the initiative and referendum may be prescribed by law. (g) The initiative shall not be used to dedicate revenues, make or repeal appropriations, create courts, define the jurisdiction of courts, or prescribe their rules, enact local or special legislation, or enact that prohibited by the constitution for enactment by the legislature. The referendum shall not be applied to dedications of revenue, to appropriations, to local or special legislation, or to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 033 007.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1969 *** Article XVI. Section 7. No money shall be paid out of the state treasury except upon appropriation by law and on warrant drawn by the proper officer, and no bills, claims, accounts or demands against the state, or any county or political sub-division, shall be audited, allowed or paid until a full itemized statement in writing, certified to under penalty of perjury, shall be filed with the officer or officers whose duty it may be to audit the same. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 034 006.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1969 *** Article VII. Section 6. All funds belonging to the state for public school purposes, the interest and income of which only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds in the care of the state, which shall keep them for the exclusive benefit of the public schools. The legislature shall provide by law for the investment of such trust funds. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 035 004.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1969 *** Article VII. Section 4. All money, stocks, bonds, lands and other property belonging to a county school fund, except such moneys and property as may be provided by law for current use in aid of public schools, shall belong to and be invested by the several counties as a county public school fund, in such manner as the legislature shall provide, the income of which shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of free public schools in the several counties of the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 036 001.0 008.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** Article XIII. Section 1. (a) The legislature shall provide by general law, applicable to all cities and towns, (i) for the incorporation of cities, (ii) for the methods by which city and town boundaries may be altered, and (iii) for the procedures by which cities and towns may be merged, consolidated or dissolved; provided that existing laws on such subjects and laws pertaining to civil service, retirement, collective bargaining, the levying of taxes, excises, fees, or any other charges, whether or not applicable to all cities and towns on the effective date of this amendment, shall remain in effect until superseded by general law and such existing laws shall not be subject to charter ordinance. (b) All cities and towns are hereby empowered to determine their local affairs and government as established by ordinance passed by the governing body, subject to referendum when prescribed by the legislature, and further subject only to statues uniformly applicable to all cities and towns, and to statues prescribing limits of indebtedness. The levying of taxes, excises, fees, or any other charges shall be prescribed by the legislature. The legislature may not establish more than four (4) classes of cities and towns. Each city and town shall be governed by all other statutes, except as it may exempt itself by charter ordinance as hereinafter provided. (c) Each city or town may elect that the whole or any part of any statute, other than statutes uniformly applicable to all cities and towns and statutes prescribing limits of indebtedness, may not apply to such city or town. This exemption shall be by charter ordinance passed by a two- thirds (2/3) vote of all members elected to the governing body of the city or town. Each such character ordinance shall be titled and may provide that the whole or part of any statute, which would otherwise apply to such city or town as specifically designated in the ordinance shall not apply to such city or town. Such ordinance may provide other provisions on the same subject. Every charter ordinance shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the official city or town newspaper, if any, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town. No charter ordinance shall take effect until the sixtieth (60th) day after its final publication. If prior thereto, a petition, signed by a number of qualified electors of the city or town, equaling at least ten per cent (10%) of the votes cast at the last general municipal election, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such city or town, demanding that such ordinance be submitted to referendum, then the ordinance shall not take effect unless approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. Such referendum election shall be called within thirty (30) days and held within ninety (900 days after the petition is filed. An ordinance establishing procedures, and fixing the date of such election shall be passed by the governing body and published once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in the official city or town newspaper, if any, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town. The question on the ballot shall be: "Shall Charter Ordinance No. ___ Entitled (stating the title of the ordinance) take effect?". The governing body may submit, without a petition, any charter ordinance to referendum election under the procedures as previously set out. The charter ordinance shall take effect if approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. An approved charter ordinance, after becoming effective, shall be recorded by the clerk in a book maintained for that purpose with a certificate of the procedures of adoption. A certified copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall keep and index of such ordinances. Each charter ordinance enacted shall prevail over any prior act of the governing body of the city or town, and may be repealed or amended only by subsequent charter ordinance, or by enactments of the legislature applicable to all cities and towns. (d) The powers and authority granted to cities and towns, pursuant to this section, shall be liberally construed for the purpose of giving the largest measure of self-government to cities and towns. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 037 004.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** Article V. Section 4 (a) The supreme court of the state shall consist of not less than three nor more than five justices as may be determined by the legislature. The justices of the court shall elect one of their number to serve as chief justice for such term and with such authority as shall be prescribed by law. A majority of the justices shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of a majority of such quorum shall be sufficient to decide any matter. If a justice of the supreme court for any reason shall not participate in hearing any matter, the chief justice may designate one of the district judges to act for such non-participating justice. (b) A vacancy in the office of justice of the supreme court or judge of any district court or of such other courts that may be made subject to this provision by law, shall be filled by a qualified person appointed by the governor from a list of three nominees that shall be submitted by the judicial nominating commission. The commission shall submit such a list not later than 60 days after the death, retirement, tender of resignation, removal, failure of an incumbent to file a declaration of candidacy or certification of a negative majority vote on the question of retention in office under section [subsection] (g) hereof. If the governor shall fail to make any such appointment within 30 days from the day the list is submitted to him, such appointment shall be made by the chief justice from the list within 15 days. (c) There shall be a judicial nominating commission for the supreme court, district courts and any other courts to which these provisions may be extended by law. The commission shall consist of seven members, one of whom shall be the chief justice, or a justice of the supreme court designated by the chief justice to act for him, who shall be chairman thereof. In addition to the chief justice, or his designee, three resident members of the bar engaged in active practice shall be elected by the Wyoming State Bar and three electors of the state not admitted to practice law shall be appointed by the governor to serve on said commission for such staggered terms as shall be prescribed by law. No more than two members of said commission who are residents of the same judicial district may qualify to serve any term or part of a term on the commission. In the case of courts having less than statewide authority, each judicial district not otherwise represented by a member on the commission, and each county, should the provisions hereof be extended by law to courts of lesser jurisdiction than district courts, shall be represented by two nonvoting advisors to the commission when an appointment to a court in such unrepresented district, or county, is pending; both of such advisors shall be residents of the district, or county, and one shall be a member of the bar appointed by the governing body of the Wyoming State Bar and one shall be a nonattorney advisor appointed by the governor. (d) No member of the commission excepting the chairman shall hold any federal, state or county public office or any political party office, and after serving a full term he shall not be eligible for reelection or reappointment to succeed himself on the commission. No member of the judicial nominating commission shall be eligible for appointment to any judicial office while he is a member of the commission nor for a period of one year after the expiration of his term for which he was elected or appointed. Vacancies in the office of commissioner shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments. Additional qualifications of members of the commission may be prescribed by law. (e) The chairman of the commission shall cast votes only in the event of ties. The commission shall operate under rules adopted by the supreme court. Members of the commission shall be entitled to no compensation other than expenses incurred for travel and subsistence while attending meetings of the commission. (f) The terms of supreme court justices shall be eight years and the terms of district court judges shall be six years. (g) Each justice or judge selected under these provisions shall serve for one year after his appointment and until the first Monday in January following the next general election after the expiration of such year. He shall, at such general election, stand for retention in office on a ballot which shall submit to the appropriate electorate the question whether such justice or judge shall be retained in office for another term or part of a term, and upon filing a declaration of candidacy in the form and at the times prescribed by law, he shall, at the general election next held before the expiration of each term, stand for retention on such ballots. The electorate of the whole state shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of justices of the supreme court, and any other statewide court; the electorate of the several judicial districts shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of judges of their respective districts, and the electorate of such other subdivisions of the state as shall be prescribed by law shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of any other judges to which these provisions may be extended. (h) A justice or judge selected hereunder, or one that is in office upon the effective date of this amendment, who shall desire to retain his judicial office a succeeding term, following the expiration of his existing term of office, shall file with the appropriate office not more than 6 months nor less than 3 months before the general election to be held before the expiration of his existing term of office a declaration of intent to stand for election for a succeeding term., provided, however, that no name shall be placed upon the ballot without prior approval, after hearing, of the judicial nominating commission. When such a declaration of approval is allowed and filed, the appropriate electorate shall vote upon a nonpartisan judicial ballot on the question of retention in or rejection from office of such justice or judge, and if a majority of those voting on the question vote affirmatively, the justice or judge shall be elected to serve the succeeding term prescribed by law. If a justice or judge fails to file such a declaration within the time specified, or if a majority of those voting on the question vote negatively to any judicial candidacy, a vacancy will thereby be created in that office at the end of its existing term. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 038 005.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** Subject to the further provisions of this section, the legislature shall provide for the voluntary retirement and compensation of justices and judges of the supreme court and district courts, and may do so for any other courts, on account of length of service, age and disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and when needed. The office of every such justice and judge shall become vacant when the incumbent reaches the age of seventy (70) years, as the legislature may prescribe; but, in the case of an incumbent whose term of office includes the effective date of this amendment, this provision shall not prevent him from serving the remainder of said term nor be applicable to him before his period or periods of judicial service shall have reached a total of six (6) years. The legislature may also provide for benefits for dependents of justices and judges. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 039 006.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** (a) There is hereby created the Judicial Supervisory Commission which shall have seven members consisting of two judges of the district courts elected by the district judges; two members of the Wyoming State Bar who have practiced law in this state for ten years, appointed by its governing body; and three electors of the state who are not judges, retired judges, or members of the Wyoming State Bar, appointed by the governor and approved by the senate, a majority of the membership concurring. All terms shall be for four years duration, and shall be staggered in a manner prescribed by law. (b) Commission membership terminates if a member ceases to hold the position or status that qualified him for appointment. A vacancy shall be filled by the appointing power for the remainder of the term. (c) A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, without loss of salary, while there is pending (1) an indictment or information charging him in the United States with a crime punishable as a felony or one involving moral turpitude under Wyoming or federal law, or (2) a recommendation to the supreme court by the judicial supervisory commission for his removal or retirement, (d) On recommendation of the judicial supervisory commission, or on its own motion, the supreme court may suspend a justice or judge from office without salary when in the United States he pleads guilty or no contest or is found guilty of a crime punishable as a felony or one involving moral turpitude under Wyoming or federal law. If his conviction is reversed, suspension terminates, and he shall be paid his salary for the period of suspension. If he is suspended and his conviction becomes final the supreme court shall remove him from office. (e) On recommendation of the judicial supervisory commission the supreme court may (1) retire a justice or judge for disability that seriously interferes with the performance of his duties and is, or is likely to become, permanent and (2) censure or remove a judge for action occurring during, or not more than 6 years prior to the commencement of, his current term that constitutes wilful misconduct in office, wilful and persistent failure to perform his duties, habitual intemperance, or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute. (f) A justice or judge retired by the supreme court shall be considered to have retired voluntarily without loss of retirement benefits. A justice or judge removed by the supreme court is ineligible for judicial office or retirement benefits and, pending further order of the court, he is suspended from practicing law in this state. (g) The supreme court shall adopt rules implementing this section and providing for proceedings. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 040 006.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** Article III. Section 6. The legislature shall not meet for more than sixty (60) legislative working days excluding Sundays during the term for which members of the house of representatives are elected, except when called into special session. The legislature shall determine by statute the number of days not to exceed sixty (60) legislative working days to be devoted to general and budget session, respectively. The legislature shall meet on odd-numbered years for a general and budget session. The legislature may meet on even-numbered years for budget session. During the budget session no bills except the budget bill may be introduced unless placed on call by a two-thirds vote of either house. The legislature shall meet for no more than forty (40) legislative working days excluding Sundays in any (1) calendar year, except when called into special session. The compensation of the members of the legislature shall be as provided by law; but no legislature shall fix its own compensation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 041 007.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1971 *** The legislature shall meet at the seat of government at twelve o'clock noon, on the second Tuesday of January of the odd-numbered years for general and budget session and may meet on the second Tuesday of January of the even-numbered years for budget session, and at other times when convened by the governor. The governor by proclamation may also, in times of war or grave emergency by law defined, temporarily convene the legislature at a place or places other than the seat of government. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 042 018.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1973 *** Article XV. Section 18. Full tax credit allowed against any liability arising from a tax on income. No tax shall be imposed upon income without allowing full credit against such tax liability for all sales, use, and ad valorem taxes paid in the taxable year by the same taxpayer to any taxing authority in Wyoming. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 043 019.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1974 *** Article XV. Section 19. Mineral excise tax; distribution. The Legislature shall provide by law for an excise tax on the privilege of severing or extracting minerals, of one and one-half (1 «%) on the value of the gross product extracted. The minerals subject to such excise tax shall be coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil, shale, and other such minerals as may be designated by the Legislature. Such tax shall be in addition to any other excise, severance or ad valorem tax. The proceeds from such tax shall be deposited in the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund, which fund shall remain inviolate. The monies in the fund shall be invested as prescribed by the Legislature and all income from fund investments shall be deposited by the State Treasurer in the general fund on an annual basis. The Legislature may also specify by law, conditions and terms under which monies in the fund may be loaned to political subdivisions of the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 044 004.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1975 *** Article V. Section 4 (a) The supreme court of the state shall consist of not less than three nor more than five justices as may be determined by the legislature. The justices of the court shall elect one of their number to serve as chief justice for such term and with such authority as shall be prescribed by law. A majority of the justices shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of a majority of such quorum shall be sufficient to decide any matter. If a justice of the supreme court for any reason shall not participate in hearing any matter, the chief justice may designate one of the district judges to act for such non-participating justice. (b) A vacancy in the office of justice of the supreme court or judge of any district court or of such other courts that may be made subject to this provision by law, shall be filled by a qualified person appointed by the governor from a list of three nominees that shall be submitted by the judicial nominating commission. The commission shall submit such a list not later than 60 days after the death, retirement, tender of resignation, removal, failure of an incumbent to file a declaration of candidacy or certification of a negative majority vote on the question of retention in office under section [subsection] (g) hereof. If the governor shall fail to make any such appointment within 30 days from the day the list is submitted to him, such appointment shall be made by the chief justice from the list within 15 days. (c) There shall be a judicial nominating commission for the supreme court, district courts and any other courts to which these provisions may be extended by law. The commission shall consist of seven members, one of whom shall be the chief justice, or a justice of the supreme court designated by the chief justice to act for him, who shall be chairman thereof. In addition to the chief justice, or his designee, three resident members of the bar engaged in active practice shall be elected by the Wyoming State Bar and three electors of the state not admitted to practice law shall be appointed by the governor to serve on said commission for such staggered terms as shall be prescribed by law. No more than two members of said commission who are residents of the same judicial district may qualify to serve any term or part of a term on the commission. In the case of courts having less than statewide authority, each judicial district not otherwise represented by a member on the commission, and each county, should the provisions hereof be extended by law to courts of lesser jurisdiction than district courts, shall be represented by two nonvoting advisors to the commission when an appointment to a court in such unrepresented district, or county, is pending; both of such advisors shall be residents of the district, or county, and one shall be a member of the bar appointed by the governing body of the Wyoming State Bar and one shall be a nonattorney advisor appointed by the governor. (d) No member of the commission excepting the chairman shall hold any federal, state or county public office or any political party office, and after serving a full term he shall not be eligible for reelection or reappointment to succeed himself on the commission. No member of the judicial nominating commission shall be eligible for appointment to any judicial office while he is a member of the commission nor for a period of one year after the expiration of his term for which he was elected or appointed. Vacancies in the office of commissioner shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments. Additional qualifications of members of the commission may be prescribed by law. (e) The chairman of the commission shall cast votes only in the event of ties. The commission shall operate under rules adopted by the supreme court. Members of the commission shall be entitled to no compensation other than expenses incurred for travel and subsistence while attending meetings of the commission. (f) The terms of supreme court justices shall be eight years and the terms of district court judges shall be six years. (g) Each justice or judge selected under these provisions shall serve for one year after his appointment and until the first Monday in January following the next general election after the expiration of such year. He shall, at such general election, stand for retention in office on a ballot which shall submit to the appropriate electorate the question whether such justice or judge shall be retained in office for another term or part of a term, and upon filing a declaration of candidacy in the form and at the times prescribed by law, he shall, at the general election next held before the expiration of each term, stand for retention on such ballots. The electorate of the whole state shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of justices of the supreme court, and any other statewide court; the electorate of the several judicial districts shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of judges of their respective districts, and the electorate of such other subdivisions of the state as shall be prescribed by law shall vote on the question of retention or rejection of any other judges to which these provisions may be extended. (h). A justice or judge selected hereunder, or one that is in office upon the effective date of this amendment, who shall desire to retain his judicial office a succeeding term following the expiration of his existing term of office, shall file with the appropriate office not more than 6 months nor less than 3 months before the expiration of his existing term of office a declaration of intent to stand for election for a succeeding term. When such a declaration of intent is filed, the appropriate electorate shall vote upon a nonpartisan judicial ballot on the question of retention or rejection from office of such justice or judge, and if a majority of those voting on the question vote affirmatively, the justice or judge shall be elected to server the succeeding term prescribed by law. If a justice or judge fails to file such a declaration within the time specified, or if a majority of those voting on the question vote negatively to any judicial candidacy, a vacancy will thereby be created in that office at the end of its existing term. [Note: this amendment only affects part (h) of Article 5, section 4] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 045 010.0 001.0 0 WY 1889 1975 *** Article I. Section 10. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to defend in person and by counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, to have a copy thereof, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process served for obtaining witnesses, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense is committed. When the location of the offense cannot be established with certainty, venue may be placed in the county or district where the corpus delecti is found, or in any county or district in which the victim was transported. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 046 003.0 009.0 0 WY 1889 1975 *** Repeals Article IX. Section 3. No boy under the age of fourteen years and no woman or girl of any age shall be employed or permitted to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mines for the purpose of employment therein; provided, however, this provision shall not affect the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office or in the performance of clerical work at such mine or colliery. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 047 023.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1978 *** Article VII. Section 23. The legislature shall have no power to change or to locate the seat of government, the state university, or state hospital, but may provide by law for submitting the question of the permanent locations thereof respectively, to the qualified electors of the state, at some general election, and a majority of all votes upon said question cast at said election, shall be necessary to determine the location thereof: but until the same are respectively and permanently located, as herein provided, the location of the seat of government and said institutions shall be as follows: The seat of government shall be located at the City of Cheyenne, in the County of Laramie. The state university shall be centered at the City of Laramie, in the County of Albany. The state hospital shall be located at or near the City of Evanston, in the County of Uinta. A penitentiary shall be located at or near the City of Rawlins, in the County of Carbon. The legislature may provide by law the location of other public institutions, including correctional facilities. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 048 008.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1978 *** Article VII. Section 8. Distribution of school funds. Provision shall be made by general law for the equitable allocation of such income among all school districts in the state. But no appropriation shall be made from said fund to any district for the year in which a school has not been maintained for at least three (3) months; nor shall any portion of any public school fund ever be used to support or assist any private school, or any school, academy, seminary, college or other institution of learning controlled by any church or sectarian organization or religious denomination whatsoever. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 049 009.0 001.0 0 WY 1889 1980 *** Article I. Section 9. Trial by jury inviolate. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate in criminal cases. A jury in civil cases and in criminal cases where the charge is a misdemeanor may consist of less than twelve (12) persons but not less than six (6), as may be prescribed by law. A grand jury may consist of twelve (12) persons, any nine (9) of whom concurring may find an indictment. The legislature may change, regulate or abolish the grand jury system. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 050 015.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1981 *** Article XV. Section 15. State tax for support of public schools. For the support of public schools in the state there may be levied each year a state tax not exceeding twelve mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property of the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 051 017.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1981 *** Article XV. Section 17. County levy for support and maintenance of public schools. There shall be levied each year in each county of the state a tax of not to exceed six mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in each county for the support and maintenance of the public schools. This tax shall be collected by the county treasurer and disbursed among the school districts within the county as the legislature shall provide. The legislature may authorize boards of trustees of school districts to levy a special tax on the property of the district. The legislature may also provide for the distribution among one or more school districts of not more than three-fourths of any revenue from the special school district property tax in excess of a state average yield, which shall be calculated each year, per average daily membership. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 052 011.0 004.0 0 WY 1889 1981 *** Article IV. Section 11. State officers; election; qualifications; terms. There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the times and places of choosing members of the legislature, a secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction, who shall have attained the age of twenty-five (25) years respectively, shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have the qualifications of state electors. They shall severally hold their offices at the seat of government, for the term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and duly qualified. The legislature may provide for such other state officers as are deemed necessary. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 053 040.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1983 *** Article III. Section 40. Debts to state or municipal corporation cannot be released unless otherwise prescribed by legislature. No obligation or liability of any person, association or corporation held or owned by the state or any municipal corporation therein shall ever be exchanged, transferred, remitted, released, postponed or in any way diminished except as may be prescribed by the legislature. The liability or obligation shall not be extinguished except by payment into the proper treasury or as may otherwise be prescribed by the legislature in cases where the obligation or liability is not collectible. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 054 006.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1984 *** Article XVI. Section 6. Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement. Neither the state nor any county, city, township, town, school district, or any other political subdivision, shall loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, except for necessary support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of the capital stock of any association or corporation, except that funds of public employee retirement systems may be invested in such stock under conditions the legislature prescribes. The state shall not engage in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the people. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 055 052.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1985 *** Article III. Section 52. (a) The people may propose and enact laws by the initiative, and approve or reject acts of the legislature by the referendum. (b) An initiative or referendum is proposed by an application containing the bill to be initiated or the act to be referred. The application shall be signed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified voters as sponsors, and shall be filed with the secretary of state. If he finds it in proper form he shall so certify. Denial of certification shall be subject to judicial review. (c) After certification of the application, a petition containing a summary of the subject matter shall be prepared by the secretary of state for circulation by the sponsors. If signed by qualified voters, equal in number to fifteen per cent (15%) of those who voted in the preceding general election and resident in at least two-thirds (2/3) of the counties of the state, it may be filed with the secretary of state. (d) An initiative petition may be filed at any time except that one may not be filed for a measure substantially the same as that defeated by an initiative election within the preceding (5) years. The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the proposed law, and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred twenty (120) days after adjournment of the legislative session following the filing. If, before the election, substantially the same measure has been enacted, the petition is void. (e) A referendum petition may be filed only within ninety (90) days after adjournment of the legislative session at which the act was passed, except that a referendum petition respecting any act previously passed by the legislature may be filed within six months after the power of referendum is adopted, The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the act and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred eighty (180) days after adjournment of that session. (f) If votes in an amount in excess of fifty percent (50%) of those voting in the general election are cast in favor of adoption of an initiated measure, the measure is enacted. If votes in an amount in excess of fifty percent (50%) of those voted in the general election are cast in favor of rejection of an act referred, it is rejected. The secretary of state shall certify the election returns. An initiated law becomes effective ninety (90) days after certification, is not subject to veto, and may be repealed by the legislature within two (2) years of its effective date. It may be amended at any time. An act rejected by referendum is void thirty (30) days after certification. Additional procedures for the initiative and referendum may be prescribed by law. (g) The initiative shall not be used to dedicate revenues, make or repeal appropriations, create courts, define the jurisdiction of courts, or prescribe their rules, enact local or special legislation, or enact that prohibited by the constitution for enactment by the legislature. The referendum shall not be applied to dedications of revenue, to appropriations, to local or special legislation, or to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. [Note: This amendment only affected section (f) of Article 3, Section 52] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 056 019.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1985 *** Article III. Section 19. Removal of officers not subject to impeachment. Except as hereafter provided, all officers not subject to impeachment shall be subject to removal for misconduct or malfeasance in office as provided by law. Any person appointed by the governor to serve as head of a state agency, or division thereof, or to serve as a member of a state board or commission, may be removed by the governor as provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 057 010.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1985 *** Article XV. Section 10. Duties of state board of equalization. The duties of the state board shall be to equalize the valuation on all property in the several counties and such other duties as may be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 058 004.0 010.0 0 WY 1889 1986 *** Article X. Section 4. Damages for personal injuries or death not to be limited; worker's compensation. No law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person. Any contract or agreement with any employee waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employee shall be void. As to all extrahazardous employments the legislature shall provide by law for the accumulation and maintenance of a fund or funds out of which shall be paid compensation as may be fixed by law according to proper classifications to each person injured in such employment or to the dependent families of such as die as the result of such injuries, except in the case of injuries due solely to the culpable negligence of the injured employee. The fund or funds shall be accumulated, paid into the state treasury and maintained in such a manner as may be prescribed by law. The right of each employee to compensation from the fund shall be in lieu of and shall take the place of any and all rights of action against any employer contributing as required by law to the fund in favor of any person or persons by reason of the injuries or death. Subject to conditions specified by law, the legislature may allow employments not designated extrahazardous to be covered by the state fund at the option of the employer. To the extent an employer elects to be covered by the state fund and contribute to the fund as required by law, the employer shall enjoy the same immunity as provided for extrahazardous employments. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 059 012.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1986 *** Article XVI. Section 12. Economic development loan fund. (a) Notwithstanding Article 3, Section 36 and Article 16, Sections 1, 2 and 6 of this Constitution, the legislature, by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all the members of each of the two (2) houses voting separately, may appropriate monies in an amount not exceeding one percent (1%) times the assessed value of the taxable property in the state as shown by the last preceding general assessment for taxation, to provide a revolving investment fund to be used to promote and aid the economic development of the state. (b) The investment fund created by this section shall be used to provide fully-funded loan guarantees or loans to proposed or existing enterprises which will employ people with the state, provide services within the state, use resources within the state or otherwise add economic value to goods, services or resources within the state. (c) Monies within the revolving investment fund shall be loaned or used to guarantee loans under such terms and conditions as the legislature may by law direct. (d) The cumulative total of monies appropriated to provide revolving investment fund shall never exceed one percent (1%) on the assessed value of the taxable property in the state as shown by the last preceding general assessment for taxation. (e) Notwithstanding the limitation of subsection (d) of this section, earnings on the revolving investment fund shall be added to the revolving investment fund and shall be invested as provided in this section. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 060 028.0 001.0 0 WY 1889 1988 *** Article I, Section 28. Taxation; consent of people; uniformity and equality. No tax shall be passed without the consent of the people or their authorized representatives. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 061 011.0 015.0 0 WY 1889 1988 *** Article XV. Section 11. Uniformity of assessment required. (a) All property, except as in this constitution otherwise provided, shall be uniformly valued at its full value as defined by the legislature, in three (3) classes as follows: (i) Gross production of minerals and mine products in lieu of taxes on the land where produced; (ii) Property used for industrial purposes as defined by the legislature; and (iii) All other property, real and personal. (b) The legislature shall prescribe the percentage of value which shall be assessed within each designated class. All taxable property shall be valued at its full value as defined bu the legislature except agricultural and grazing lands which shall be valued according to the capability of the land to produce agricultural products under normal conditions. The percentage of value prescribed for industrial property shall not be more than forty percent (40%) higher nor more than four (4) percentage points more than the percentage prescribed for property other than minerals. (c) The legislature shall not create new classes or subclasses or authorize any property to be assessed at a rate other than the rates set for authorized classes. (d) All taxation shall be equal and uniform within each class of property. The legislature shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, real and personal. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 062 002.0 014.0 0 WY 1889 1989 *** Article XIV. Section 2. Fees. The legislature shall provide by law the fees which may be demanded by justices of the peace and constables in precincts having less than fifteen hundred population, and of court commissioners, boards of arbitration and notaries public, which fees the said officers shall accept as their full compensation. But all other sate, county, city, town and school officers shall be required by law to keep a true and correct account of all fees collected by them, and to pay the same into the proper treasury when collected, and the officer whose duty it is to collect such fees shall be held responsible, under his bond, for neglect to collect the same. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 063 018.0 007.0 0 WY 1889 1989 *** Article VII. Section 18. Establishment; supervision by state board of charities and reform. Such charitable, reformatory and penal institutions as the claims of humanity and the public good may require, shall be established and supported by the state in such a manner as the legislature may prescribe. They shall be supervised as prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 064 006.0 009.0 0 WY 1889 1989 *** Article IX. Section 6. REPEALED. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 065 014.0 004.0 0 WY 1889 1989 *** Article IV. Section 14. Examination of accounts. The legislature shall provide by law for examination of the accounts of state treasurer, supreme court clerks, district court clerks., and all county treasurers, and treasurers of such other public institutions as the legislature may prescribe. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 066 001.0 009.0 0 WY 1889 1989 *** Article IX. Section 1. Inspector of mines. There shall be established and maintained the office of inspector of mines, the duties of which shall be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 067 011.0 019.0 0 WY 1889 1990 *** Article XIX. Section 11. Use of monies in public employee retirement funds restricted. All monies from any source paid into any public employee retirement system created by the laws of this state shall be used only for the benefit of the members, retirees and beneficiaries of that system, including the payment of system administrative costs. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 068 053.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1993 *** Article III. Section 53. Notwithstanding Article 4, Section 5 of this Constitution, the legislature may by law create a penalty of life imprisonment without parole for specified crimes which sentence shall not be subject to commutation by the governor. The legislature may in addition limit commutation of a death sentence to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole which sentence shall not be subject to further commutation. In no event shall the inherent power of the governor to grant a pardon be limited or curtailed. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 069 006.0 006.0 0 WY 1889 1996 *** Article VI. Section 6. What persons excluded from franchise. All persons adjudicated to be mentally incompetent or persons convicted of felonies, unless restored to civil rights, are excluded from the elective franchise. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 070 006.0 016.0 0 WY 1889 1996 *** Article XVI. Section 6. Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement. Neither the state nor any county, city, township, town, school district, or any other political subdivision, shall loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, except for necessary support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of the capital stock of any association or corporation, except that funds of public employee retirement systems and the permanent funds of the state of Wyoming may be invested in such stock under conditions the legislature prescribes. The state shall not engage in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the people. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 071 006.0 005.0 0 WY 1889 1996 *** Article V. Section 6. (a) There is hereby created the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics. The commission shall have twelve (12) members who reside in Wyoming consisting of: (i) Three (3) active Wyoming judges, who are not members of the supreme court, elected by the full-time, active Wyoming judges; (ii) Three (3) members of the Wyoming state bar, appointed by its governing body; and (iii) Six (6) electors of the state, who are not active or retired judges or attorneys, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. (b) All terms shall be for three (3) years duration. Members shall be eligible for reappointment to a second term. (c) The commission shall divide itself into investigatory and adjudicatory panels for each case considered. No commission member may serve on an adjudicatory panel in any case in which that member served in an investigatory capacity. (d) The commission, or a panel thereof, shall consider complaints of judicial misconduct made against judicial officers and, to the extent permitted and as provided for by the code of judicial conduct, may: (i) Discipline a judicial officer; or (ii) Recommend discipline of a judicial officer to the supreme court or a special supreme court. (e) The supreme court shall adopt a code of judicial conduct applicable to all judicial officers and adopt rules governing: (i) The election of judges to the commission; (ii) The staggering of terms, and the removal and filling of vacancies of commission members; (iii) The appointment of a special supreme court composed of five (5) district judges who are not members of the commission, to act in the place of the supreme court in any case involving the discipline or disability of a justice of the supreme court; and (iv) Procedures for the operation of the commission including exercise of the commission's disciplinary powers. (f) The supreme court or special supreme court, on recommendation of the commission or on its own motion may: (i) Suspend a judicial officer without salary when the judicial officer is charged with or is convicted in the United States of a crime punishable as a felony or one involving moral turpitude under Wyoming or federal law, and remove that judicial officer in the event such conviction becomes final; (ii) For any judicial officer removed from office, order a forfeiture of any pension or retirement benefits accrued after the offending conduct, except for those that have been vested under the Wyoming retirement act or any local plan; (iii) Suspend the judicial officer from practicing law in this state; and (iv) Remove a judicial officer from office or impose other discipline permitted by the rules for judicial discipline for conduct that constitutes willful misconduct in office, or for a willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of the office, or for habitual intemperance, or for conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute, or for a violation of the code of judicial conduct. (g) The code of judicial conduct shall provide for the mandatory retirement of a judicial officer for any disability that seriously interferes with the performance of the duties of the office and is, or is likely to become, permanent. A judicial officer retired by the supreme court or a special supreme court for a disability shall be considered to have retired voluntarily without loss of retirement benefits. (h) A judicial officer removed from office is ineligible for any judicial office. (j) This section applies to all judicial officers during their service on the bench and to former judicial officers regarding allegations of judicial misconduct occurring during service on the bench if a complaint is made within one (1) year following service. The term "judicial officer" includes all members of the judicial branch of government performing judicial functions. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 072 048.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1997 *** Article III. Section 48. State Census. At the first budget session of the legislature following the federal census, the legislature shall reapportion its membership based upon that census. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any bill to apportion the legislature may be introduced in a budget session in the same manner as in a general session. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 073 052.0 003.0 0 WY 1889 1997 *** Article III. Section 52 (c). (a) The people may propose and enact laws by the initiative, and approve or reject acts of the legislature by the referendum. (b) An initiative or referendum is proposed by an application containing the bill to be initiated or the act to be referred. The application shall be signed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified voters as sponsors, and shall be filed with the secretary of state. If he finds it in proper form he shall so certify. Denial of certification shall be subject to judicial review. (c) After certification of the application, a petition containing a summary of the subject matter shall be prepared by the secretary of state for circulation by the sponsors. The petition may be filed with the secretary of state if it meets both of the following requirements: (i) It is signed by qualified voters, equal in number to fifteen percent (15%) of those who voted in the preceding general election; and (ii) It is signed by qualified voters equal in number to fifteen percent (15%) of those resident in at least two-thirds (2/3) of the counties of the state, as determined by those who voted in the preceding general election in that county. (d) An initiative petition may be filed at any time except that one may not be filed for a measure substantially the same as that defeated by an initiative election within the preceding (5) years. The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the proposed law, and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred twenty (120) days after adjournment of the legislative session following the filing. If, before the election, substantially the same measure has been enacted, the petition is void. (e) A referendum petition may be filed only within ninety (90) days after adjournment of the legislative session at which the act was passed, except that a referendum petition respecting any act previously passed by the legislature may be filed within six months after the power of referendum is adopted, The secretary of state shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing the act and shall place them on the ballot for the first statewide election held more than one hundred eighty (180) days after adjournment of that session. (f) If votes in an amount in excess of fifty percent (50%) of those voting in the general election are cast in favor of adoption of an initiated measure, the measure is enacted. If votes in an amount in excess of fifty percent (50%) of those voted in the general election are cast in favor of rejection of an act referred, it is rejected. The secretary of state shall certify the election returns. An initiated law becomes effective ninety (90) days after certification, is not subject to veto, and may be repealed by the legislature within two (2) years of its effective date. It may be amended at any time. An act rejected by referendum is void thirty (30) days after certification. Additional procedures for the initiative and referendum may be prescribed by law. (g) The initiative shall not be used to dedicate revenues, make or repeal appropriations, create courts, define the jurisdiction of courts, or prescribe their rules, enact local or special legislation, or enact that prohibited by the constitution for enactment by the legislature. The referendum shall not be applied to dedications of revenue, to appropriations, to local or special legislation, or to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. [Note: This amendment only affected part (c) of Article 3, Section 52] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 074 004.0 010.0 0 WY 1889 1998 *** Article X. Section 4. Damages for personal injuries or death not to be limited; worker's compensation. No law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person. Any contract or agreement with any employee waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employee shall be void. As to all extrahazardous employments the legislature shall provide by law for the accumulation and maintenance of a fund or funds out of which shall be paid compensation as may be fixed by law according to proper classifications to each person injured in such employment or to the dependent families of such as die as the result of such injuries, except in case of injuries due solely to the culpable negligence of the injured employee. The fund or funds shall be accumulated, paid into the state treasury and maintained in such manner as may be provided by law. Monies in the fund shall be expended only for compensation authorized by this section, for administration and management of the Worker's Compensation Act, debt service related to the fund and for workplace safety programs conducted by the state as authorized by law. The right of each employee to compensation from the fund shall be in lieu of and shall take the place of any and all rights of action against any employer contributing as required by law to the fund in favor of any person or persons by reason of the injuries or death. Subject to conditions specified by law, the legislature may allow employments not designated extrahazardous to be covered by the state fund at the option of the employer. To the extent an employer elects to be covered by the state fund and contributes to the fund as required by law, the employer shall enjoy the same immunity as provided for extrahazardous employments. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 075 015.0 006.0 0 WY 1889 1999 *** Article VI. Section 15. Qualifications for office. No person except a qualified elector shall be elected or appointed to any civil or military office in the state. "Military office" shall be limited to the offices of adjutant general, assistant adjutant general for the army national guard and assistant adjutant general for the air national guard. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 076 001.0 017.0 0 WY 1889 1999 *** Article XVII. Section 1. Of whom militia constituted. The militia of the state shall consist of all able-bodied qualified residents of the state, and those nonresidents who are accepted into service, between the ages of seventeen (17) and seventy (70) years; except those exempted by the law of the United States or of the state. But all residents having scruples of conscience averse to bearing arms shall be excused therefrom upon conditions as shall be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** CEND ***