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Preamble -
Article 1
Section 1 - The boundaries of the State of Arizona shall be as...
Section 2 - The legislature, in cooperation with the properly constituted authority of...
Article 2
Section 1 - A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential to the...
Section 2 - All political power is inherent in the people, and governments...
Section 2.1 - (A) To preserve and protect victims' rights to justice and...
Section 3 - C. If the people or their representatives exercise their authority...
Section 4 - No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property...
Section 5 - The right of petition, and of the people peaceably to...
Section 6 - Every person may freely speak, write, and publish on all...
Section 7 - The mode of administering an oath, or affirmation, shall be...
Section 8 - No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or...
Section 9 - No law granting irrevocably any privilege, franchise, or immunity shall...
Section 10 - No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to...
Section 11 - Justice in all cases shall be administered openly, and without...
Section 12 - The liberty of conscience secured by the provisions of this...
Section 13 - No law shall be enacted granting to any citizen, class...
Section 14 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...
Section 15 - Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,...
Section 16 - No conviction shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture of...
Section 17 - Private property shall not be taken for private use, except...
Section 18 - There shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in cases...
Section 19 - Any person having knowledge or possession of facts that tend...
Section 20 - The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil...
Section 21 - All elections shall be free and equal, and no power,...
Section 22 - A. All persons charged with crime shall be bailable by...
Section 23 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. Juries...
Section 24 - In criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to...
Section 25 - No bill of attainder, ex-post-facto law, or law impairing the...
Section 26 - The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in...
Section 27 - No standing army shall be kept up by this state...
Section 28 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...
Section 29 - No hereditary emoluments, privileges, or powers shall be granted or...
Section 30 - No person shall be prosecuted criminally in any court of...
Section 31 - No law shall be enacted in this state limiting the...
Section 32 - The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory, unless by express...
Section 33 - The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not...
Section 34 - The state of Arizona and each municipal corporation within the...
Section 35 - A person who is present in this state in violation...
Section 36 - A. This state shall not grant preferential treatment to or...
Section 37 - The right to vote by secret ballot for employee representation...
Article 3
Section 1 - The powers of the government of the state of Arizona...
Article 4
Section 1 - (1) The senate shall be composed of one member elected...
Section 2 - No person shall be a member of the Legislature unless...
Section 3 - The sessions of the legislature shall be held annually at...
Section 4 - No person holding any public office of profit or trust...
Section 5 - No member of the legislature, during the term for which...
Section 6 - Members of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in...
Section 7 - No member of the legislature shall be liable in any...
Section 8 - Each house, when assembled, shall choose its own officers, judge...
Section 9 - The majority of the members of each house shall constitute...
Section 10 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and...
Section 11 - Each house may punish its members for disorderly behavior, and...
Section 12 - Every bill shall be read by sections on three different...
Section 13 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly...
Section 14 - No Act or section thereof shall be revised or amended...
Section 15 - A majority of all members elected to each house shall...
Section 16 - Any member of the legislature shall have the right to...
Section 17 - The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any...
Section 18 - The legislature shall direct by law in what manner and...
Section 19 - No local or special laws shall be enacted in any...
Section 20 - The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for...
Section 21 - The members of the first legislature shall hold office until...
Section 22 - In order to preserve and protect the right of the...
Section 23 - It shall not be lawful for any person holding public...
Section 24 - The enacting clause of every bill enacted by the legislature...
Section 25 - The legislature, in order to insure continuity of state and...
Article 5
The state constitution provided that if three or more candidates ran for office and no candidate received more than 50% of the votes cast in the general election, then a runoff election would be held between the two candidates who received the first and s - A. The executive department shall consist of the governor, lieutenant...
Proposition 107 limited the number of terms that a person may serve in federal and state elective offices. With the exception of the office of state treasurer, there were no limits on the number of terms a person may serve in these offices before proposit - A. The executive department shall consist of the governor, secretary...
Section 2 - No person shall be eligible to any of the offices...
Section 3 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of...
Section 4 - The governor shall transact all executive business with the officers...
Section 5 - The governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutation, and...
Section 6 - A. In the event of the death of the governor,...
Section 7 - Every bill passed by the legislature, before it becomes a...
Section 8 - When any office shall, from any cause, become vacant, and...
Section 9 - The powers and duties of lieutenant governor, secretary of state,...
Section 10 - The returns of the election for all state officers shall...
Section 11 - All commissions shall issue in the name of the state,...
Section 12 - The salaries of those holding elective state offices shall be...
Article 6
Section 1 - The judicial power shall be vested in an integrated judicial...
Section 2 - The supreme court shall consist of not less than five...
Section 3 - The supreme court shall have administrative supervision over all the...
Section 4 - Justices of the supreme court shall hold office for a...
Section 5 - The supreme court shall have: 1. Original jurisdiction of habeas...
Section 6 - A justice of the supreme court shall be a person...
Section 7 - The supreme court shall appoint a clerk of the court...
Section 8 - Provision shall be made by law for the speedy publication...
Section 9 - The jurisdiction, powers, duties and composition of any intermediate appellate...
Section 10 - There shall be in each county at least one judge...
Section 11 - There shall be in each county a presiding judge of...
Section 12 - A. Judges of the superior court in counties having a...
Section 13 - The superior courts provided for in this article shall constitute...
Section 14 - The superior court shall have original jurisdiction of: 1. Cases...
Section 15 - The jurisdiction and authority of the courts of this state...
Section 16 - The superior court shall have appellate jurisdiction in cases arising...
Section 17 - The superior court shall be open at all times, except...
Section 18 - The superior court or any judge thereof may issue writs...
Section 19 - A judge of the superior court shall serve in another...
Section 20 - The legislature shall prescribe by law a plan of retirement...
Section 21 - Every matter submitted to a judge of the superior court...
Section 22 - Judges of the superior court, intermediate appellate courts or courts...
Section 23 - There shall be in each county a clerk of the...
Section 24 - Judges of the superior court may appoint court commissioners, master's...
Section 25 - The style of process shall be "The State of Arizona,"...
Section 26 - Each justice, judge and justice of the peace shall, before...
Section 27 - Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of...
Section 28 - Justices and judges of courts of record shall not be...
Section 30 - A. The supreme court, the court of appeals and the...
Section 31 - A. The legislature may provide for the appointment of members...
Section 32 - A. The number of justices of the peace to be...
Section 33 - No change made by the legislature in the number of...
Section 34 - Any judicial officer except a retired justice or judge who...
Section 35 - A. All justices, judges, justices of the peace and officers...
Section 36 - A. There shall be a nonpartisan commission on appellate court...
Section 37 - A. Within sixty days from the occurrence of a vacancy...
Section 38 - A. A justice or judge of the supreme court or...
Section 39 - On attaining the age of seventy years a justice or...
Section 40 - Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, any...
Section 41 - A. Except as otherwise provided, judges of the superior court...
Section 42 - The supreme court shall adopt, after public hearings, and administer...
Article 6.1
Section 1 - A. A commission on judicial conduct is created to be...
Section 2 - A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, without...
Section 3 - On recommendation of the commission on judicial conduct, or on...
Section 4 - A. On recommendation of the commission on judicial conduct, the...
Section 5 - The term "judge" as used in this article shall apply...
Section 6 - The provisions of this article shall be self-executing.
Article 7
Section 1 - All elections by the people shall be by ballot, or...
Section 2 - A. No person shall be entitled to vote at any...
Section 3 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed...
Section 4 - Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach...
Section 5 - No elector shall be obliged to perform military duty on...
Section 6 - No soldier, seaman, or marine, in the army or navy...
Section 7 - In all elections held by the people in this state,...
Section 8 - Qualifications for voters at school elections shall be as are...
Section 9 - For the purpose of obtaining an advisory vote of the...
Section 10 - The Legislature shall enact a direct primary election law, which...
Section 11 - There shall be a general election of representatives in congress,...
Section 12 - There shall be enacted registration and other laws to secure...
Section 13 - Questions upon bond issues or special assessments shall be submitted...
Section 14 - No fee shall ever be required in order to have...
Section 15 - Every person elected or appointed to any elective office of...
Section 16 - The legislature, at its first session, shall enact a law...
Section 17 - There shall be a primary and general election as prescribed...
Section 18 - The name of any candidate for United States senator from...
Article 8
Section 1 - The house of representatives shall have the sole power of...
Section 2 - No person shall be convicted without a concurrence of two-thirds...
Section 3 - If such officer shall offer his resignation it shall be...
Section 4 - Unless the incumbent otherwise requests, in writing, the incumbent's name...
Section 5 - No recall petition shall be circulated against any officer until...
Section 6 - The general election laws shall apply to recall elections in...
Article 9
Section 1 - The power of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended or...
Section 2 - (g) A person is not eligible for exemption under more...
Section 3 - The legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax...
Section 4 - The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of...
Section 5 - The state may contract debts to supply the casual deficits...
Section 6 - Except as provided by Section 25 of this Article, incorporated...
Section 7 - Neither the state, nor any county, city, town, municipality, or...
Section 8 - (1) No county, city, town, school district, or other municipal...
Section 8.1 - (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8 of this article...
Section 9 - Every law which imposes, continues, or revives a tax shall...
Section 10 - No tax shall be laid or appropriation of public money...
Section 11 - From and after December 31, 1973, the manner, method and...
Section 12 - The law-making power shall have authority to provide for the...
Section 12.1 - A. A temporary tax is levied for the purpose of...
Section 13 - No tax shall be levied on: 1. Raw or unfinished...
Section 14 - No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating...
Section 15 - Commencing January 1, 1965, a license tax is imposed on...
Section 16 - Commencing January 1, 1967, all watercraft registered for operation in...
Section 17 - (1) The economic estimates commission shall be established by law,...
Section 18 - (1) The maximum amount of ad valorem taxes that may...
Section 19 - (1) The maximum amount of ad valorem taxes levied by...
Section 20 - (1) The economic estimates commission shall determine and publish prior...
Section 21 - (1) The economic estimates commission shall determine and publish prior...
Section 22 - (A) An act that provides for a net increase in...
Section 23 - (A) An initiative or referendum measure that proposes a mandatory...
Section 24 - The state, any county, city, town, municipality or other political...
Section 25 - The state, any county, city, town, municipal corporation, or other...
Article 10
Section 1 - All lands expressly transferred and confirmed to the state by...
Section 2 - Disposition of any of said lands, or of any money...
Section 3 - No mortgage or other encumbrance of the said lands, or...
Section 4 - All lands, lease-holds, timber, and other products of land, before...
Section 5 - No lands shall be sold for less than three dollars...
Section 6 - No lands reserved and excepted of the lands granted to...
Section 7 - A. A separate permanent fund shall be established for each...
Section 8 - Every sale, lease, conveyance, or contract of or concerning any...
Section 9 - {{quote|All lands expressly transferred and confirmed to the state, by...
Section 10 - The legislature shall provide by proper laws for the sale...
Section 11 - No individual, corporation or association shall be allowed to purchase...
Section 12 - A. The legislature shall provide a process by law for...
Article 11
Section 1 - A. The legislature shall enact such laws as shall provide...
Section 2 - The general conduct and supervision of the public school system...
Section 3 - The state board of education shall be composed of the...
Section 4 - The state superintendent of public instruction shall be a member,...
Section 5 - The regents of the university, and the governing boards of...
Section 6 - The university and all other state educational institutions shall be...
Section 7 - No sectarian instruction shall be imparted in any school or...
Section 8 - A. A permanent state school fund for the use of...
Section 9 - The amount of this apportionment shall become a part of...
Section 10 - The revenue for the maintenance of the respective state educational...
Section 11 - A. On or before February 1 of each year, if...
Article 12
Section 1 - Each county of the state, now or hereafter organized, shall...
Section 2 - The several counties of the territory of Arizona as fixed...
Section 3 - There are hereby created in and for each organized county...
Section 4 - The duties, powers, and qualifications of such officers shall be...
Section 5 - A. The board of supervisors of any county with a...
Section 6 - A charter shall set forth procedures for amendment of the...
Section 7 - A. Charter counties continue to be political subdivisions of this...
Section 8 - A. The county charter shall provide: 1. For an elective...
Section 9 - The provisions of sections 5 through 8 of this article...
Article 13
Section 1 - Municipal corporations shall not be created by special laws, but...
Section 2 - Any city containing, now or hereafter, a population of more...
Section 3 - An election of such board of freeholders may be called...
Section 4 - No municipal corporation shall ever grant, extend, or renew a...
Section 5 - Every municipal corporation within this state shall have the right...
Section 6 - No grant, extension, or renewal of any franchise or other...
Section 7 - Irrigation, power, electrical, agricultural improvement, drainage, and flood control districts,...
Article 14
Section 1 - The term "corporation," as used in this article, shall be...
Section 2 - Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not...
Section 3 - All existing charters under which a bona fide organization shall...
Section 4 - No corporation shall engage in any business other than that...
Section 5 - No corporation organized outside of the limits of this state...
Section 6 - No corporation shall issue stock, except to bona fide subscribers...
Section 7 - No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise so as...
Section 8 - No domestic or foreign corporation shall do any business in...
Section 9 - The right of exercising eminent domain shall never be so...
Section 10 - In all elections for directors or managers of any corporation,...
Section 11 - Liability of stockholders. The shareholders or stockholders of every banking...
Section 12 - Any president, director, manager, cashier, or other officer of any...
Section 13 - No persons acting as a corporation under the laws of...
Section 14 - This article shall not be construed to deny the right...
Section 15 - Monopolies and trusts shall never be allowed in this state...
Section 16 - The records, books, and files of all public service corporations,...
Section 17 - Provision shall be made by law for the payment of...
Section 18 - It shall be unlawful for any corporation, organized or doing...
Section 19 - Suitable penalties shall be prescribed by law for the violation...
Article 15
Section 1 - A. No member of the corporation commission shall hold that...
Section 2 - All corporations other than municipal engaged in furnishing gas, oil,...
Section 3 - The corporation commission shall have full power to, and shall,...
Section 4 - The corporation commission, and the several members thereof, shall have...
Section 5 - The corporation commission shall have the sole power to issue...
Section 6 - The law-making power may enlarge the powers and extend the...
Section 7 - Every public service corporation organized or authorized under the laws...
Section 8 - Every public service corporation doing a transportation business within the...
Section 9 - Every public service corporation engaged in the business of transmitting...
Section 10 - Railways heretofore constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed, in...
Section 11 - The rolling stock and all other movable property belonging to...
Section 12 - All charges made for service rendered, or to be rendered,...
Section 13 - All public service corporations and corporations whose stock shall be...
Section 14 - The corporation commission shall, to aid it in the proper...
Section 15 - No public service corporation in existence at the time of...
Section 16 - If any public service corporation shall violate any of the...
Section 17 - Nothing herein shall be construed as denying to public service...
Section 19 - The corporation commission shall have the power and authority to...
Article 16
Section 1 - The militia of the state of Arizona shall consist of...
Section 2 - The organized militia shall be designated "The National Guard of...
Section 3 - The organization, equipment, and discipline of the national guard shall...
Article 17
Section 1 - The common law doctrine of riparian water rights shall not...
Section 2 - All existing rights to the use of any of the...
Article 18
Section 1 - Eight hours and no more, shall constitute a lawful day's...
Section 2 - No child under the age of fourteen years shall be...
Section 3 - It shall be unlawful for any person, company, association, or...
Section 4 - The common law doctrine of fellow servant, so far as...
Section 5 - The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk...
Section 6 - The right of action to recover damages for injuries shall...
Section 7 - To protect the safety of employees in all hazardous occupations,...
Section 8 - The legislature shall enact a workmen's compensation law applicable to...
Section 9 - The exchange, solicitation, or giving out of any labor "black...
Section 10 - No person not a citizen or ward of the United...
Article 19
This amendment lengthened the term of office of the state mine inspector. Proposition 101, after becoming adopted, increased the term of office to a four-year term from a two-year term. This amendment was effective upon the entrance of the state mine in - The office of mine inspector is hereby established. The legislature...
Proposition 107 limited the number of terms that a person may serve in federal and state elective offices. With the exception of the office of state treasurer, there were no limits on the number of terms a person may serve in these offices before proposit - The office of mine inspector is hereby established. The legislature,...
Article 20 -
Article 21
Section 1 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed...
Section 2 - No Convention shall be called by the Legislature to propose...
Article 22
Section 1 - No rights, actions, suits, proceedings, contracts, claims, or demands, existing...
Section 2 - All laws of the Territory of Arizona now in force,...
Section 3 - All debts, fines, penalties, and forfeitures which have accrued, or...
Section 4 - All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken, before...
Section 5 - All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have arisen,...
Section 6 - All Territorial, district, county, and precinct officers who may be...
Section 7 - Whenever the judge of the superior court of any county,...
Section 8 - When the State is admitted into the Union, and the...
Section 9 - Whenever a quorum of the judges of the Supreme Court...
Section 10 - Until otherwise provided by law, the seal now in use...
Section 11 - The provisions of this Constitution shall be in force from...
Section 12 - One Representative in the Congress of the United States shall...
Section 13 - The term of office of every officer to be elected...
Section 14 - Any law which may be enacted by the Legislature under...
Section 15 - Correctional and penal institutions, and institutions for the benefit of...
Section 16 - It shall be unlawful to confine any minor under the...
Section 17 - All State and county officers (except notaries public) and all...
Section 18 - Except during the final year of the term being served,...
Section 19 - The Legislature shall enact laws and adopt rules prohibiting the...
Section 20 - The seal of the State shall be of the following...
Section 21 - The Legislature shall enact all necessary laws to carry into...
Section 22 - The judgment of death shall be inflicted by administering an...
Article 25
Section 1 - No person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or...
Article 26
Section 1 - Any person holding a valid license as a real estate...
Article 27
Section 1 - The legislature may provide for the regulation of ambulances and...
Section 2 - A. To preserve the freedom of Arizonans to provide for...
Article 28
Section 1 - (1) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1....
Section 2 - The official language of the state of Arizona is English.
Section 3 - A. Representatives of government in this state shall preserve, protect...
Section 4 - Official actions shall be conducted in English.
Section 5 - This article shall not be construed to prohibit any representative...
Section 6 - A. A person who resides or does business in this...
Article 29
Section 1 - A. Public retirement systems shall be funded with contributions and...
Article 30
Section 1 - Only a union of one man and one woman shall...