Arkansas constitution

Article 1: boundaries

Article I - The seat of government of the state of Arkansas shall...

Article 2: declaration of rights

Section 1 - All political power is inherent in the people and government...

Section 2 - All men are created equally free and independent, and have...

Section 3 - The equality of all persons before the law is recognized,...

Section 4 - The right of the people peaceably to assemble, to consult...

Section 5 - The citizens of this State shall have the right to...

Section 6 - The liberty of the press shall forever remain inviolate. The...

Section 7 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, and...

Section 8 - No person shall be held to answer a criminal charge...

Section 9 - Excessive bail shall not be required; nor shall excessive fines...

Section 10 - In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right...

Section 11 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...

Section 12 - No power of suspending or setting aside the law or...

Section 13 - Every person is entitled to a certain remedy in the...

Section 14 - Treason against the State shall only consist in levying and...

Section 15 - The right of the people of this State to be...

Section 16 - No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil...

Section 17 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law...

Section 18 - The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or...

Section 19 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a...

Section 20 - No distinction shall ever be made by law, between resident...

Section 21 - No person shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized of...

Section 22 - The right of property is before and higher than any...

Section 23 - The State's ancient right of eminent domain and of taxation,...

Section 24 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship...

Section 25 - Religion, morality and knowledge being essential to good government, the...

Section 26 - No religious test shall ever be required of any person...

Section 27 - There shall be no slavery in this State, nor involuntary...

Section 28 - All lands in this State are declared to be allodial;...

Section 29 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to deny...

Article 3: franchise and elections

Section 1 - (f) A voter meeting the requirements of this section also...

Section 2 - Elections shall be free and equal. No power, civil or...

Section 4 - Electors shall, in all cases (except treason, felony and breach...

Section 6 - Any persons who shall be convicted of fraud, bribery, or...

Section 7 - No soldier, sailor, or marine, in the military or naval...

Section 8 - The general elections shall be held biennially, on the days...

Section 9 - In trials of contested elections and in proceedings for the...

Section 10 - The General Assembly shall determine the qualifications of an election...

Section 11 - If the officers of any election shall unlawfully refuse or...

Section 12 - All elections by persons acting in a representative capacity shall...

Section 13 - (1) The one (1) candidate for the office shall be...

Article 4: departments

Section 1 - The powers of the government of the State of Arkansas...

Section 2 - No person or collection of persons, being of one of...

Article 5: legislative department

Section 1 - Self-Executing. This section shall be self-executing, and all its provisions...

Section 2 - The House of Representatives shall consist of members to be...

Section 3 - The Senate shall consist of members to be chosen every...

Section 4 - No person shall be a Senator or Representative who, at...

Section 5 - (d) The General Assembly, by a vote of two-thirds (2/3)...

Section 6 - The Governor shall issue writs of election, to fill such...

Section 7 - No judge of the Supreme, Circuit or inferior courts of...

Section 8 - No person who now is, or shall be hereafter, a...

Section 9 - (1) A felony offense; (2) Abuse of office as defined...

Section 10 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which...

Section 11 - Each house shall appoint its own officers, and shall be...

Section 12 - Each house shall have power to determine the rules of...

Section 13 - The sessions of each house, and of committees of the...

Section 14 - Whenever an officer, civil or military, shall be appointed by...

Section 15 - The members of the General Assembly shall, in all cases...

Section 17 - (c) Provided, that this section shall not apply when impeachments...

Section 18 - Each house, at the beginning of every regular session of...

Section 19 - The style of the laws of the State of Arkansas...

Section 20 - The State of Arkansas shall never be made defendant in...

Section 21 - No law shall be passed except by bill, and no...

Section 22 - Every bill shall be read at length, on three different...

Section 23 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof...

Section 24 - The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special...

Section 25 - In all cases where a general law can be made...

Section 26 - No local or special bill shall be passed, unless notice...

Section 27 - No extra compensation shall be made to any officer, agent,...

Section 28 - Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn...

Section 29 - Except as provided in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 31,...

Section 30 - Except as provided in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 31,...

Section 31 - No State tax shall be allowed, or appropriation of money...

Section 32 - The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws prescribing...

Section 33 - No obligation or liability of any railroad, or other corporation,...

Section 34 - No new bill shall be introduced into either house during...

Section 35 - Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, offer, give, or...

Section 36 - Proceedings to expel a member for a criminal offense, whether...

Section 37 - § 1. Not less than a majority of the members...

Section 38 - § 2. None of the rates for property, excise, privilege...

Section 39 - § 3. EExcepting monies raised or collected for educational purposes,...

Section 40 - § 4. In making appropriations for any fiscal year, the...

Section 41 - § 5. No expense shall be incurred or authorized for...

Section 42 - (b) The review and approval by a legislative committee under...

Article 6: executive department

Section 1 - The executive department of this State shall consist of a...

Section 2 - The supreme executive power of this State shall be vested...

Section 3 - The Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of...

Section 4 - Contested elections for Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State,...

Section 5 - No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor...

Section 6 - The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval...

Section 7 - He may require information, in writing, from the officers of...

Section 8 - He shall give to the General Assembly, from time to...

Section 9 - A seal of the State shall be kept by the...

Section 10 - All grants and commissions shall be issued in the name,...

Section 11 - No member of Congress, or other person holding office under...

Section 12 - In case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure to...

Section 13 - If, during the vacancy of the office of Governor, the...

Section 14 - Whenever the office of Governor shall have become vacant by...

Section 15 - Every bill which shall have passed both houses of the...

Section 16 - Every order or resolution in which the concurrence of both...

Section 17 - The Governor shall have power to disapprove any item, or...

Section 18 - In all criminal and penal cases, except in those of...

Section 19 - The Governor may, by proclamation, on extraordinary occasions, convene the...

Section 20 - In cases of disagreement between the two houses of the...

Section 21 - The Secretary of State shall keep a full and accurate...

Section 22 - The Treasurer of State, Secretary of State, Auditor of State,...

Section 23 - When any office, from any cause, may become vacant, and...

Article 7: judicial department

Section 19 - The clerks of the circuit courts shall be elected by...

Section 23 - Judges shall not charge juries with regard to matters of...

Section 26 - The General Assembly shall have power to regulate, by law,...

Section 27 - The Circuit Court shall have jurisdiction upon information, presentment, or...

Section 28 - The County Courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in all...

Section 29 - The judge of the county court shall be elected by...

Section 30 - The Justices of the Peace of each county shall sit...

Section 31 - The terms of the County Courts shall be held at...

Section 33 - Appeals from all judgments of County Courts or Courts of...

Section 36 - Whenever a Judge of the County or Probate Court may...

Section 37 - The County Judge shall receive such compensation for his services...

Section 38 - The qualified electors of each township shall elect the Justices...

Section 41 - A Justice of the Peace shall be a qualified elector...

Section 46 - The qualified electors of each county shall elect one (1)...

Section 47 - The qualified electors of each township shall elect the Constable...

Section 48 - All officers provided for in this article, except Constables, shall...

Section 49 - All writs and other judicial process, shall run in the...

Section 51 - That in all cases of allowances made for or against...

Section 52 - That in all cases of contest for any county, township,...

Section 53 - (1) County judge; (2) Justice of the peace; (3) Sheriff;...

Article 8: apportionment--membership in general assembly

Section 1 - A Board to be known as "The Board of Apportionment,"...

Section 2 - The House of Representatives shall consist of one hundred members...

Section 3 - The Senate shall consist of thirty-five members. Senatorial districts shall...

Section 4 - On or before February 1 immediately following each Federal census,...

Section 5 - (a) to compel (by mandamus or otherwise) the board to...

Section 6 - At the next general election for State and County officers...

Article 9: exemption

Section 1 - The personal property of any resident of this State, who...

Section 2 - The personal property of any resident of this State, who...

Section 3 - The homestead of any resident of this State, who is...

Section 4 - The homestead outside any city, town or village, owned and...

Section 5 - The homestead in any city, town or village, owned and...

Section 6 - If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow,...

Section 7 - The real and personal property of any femme covert in...

Section 8 - The General Assembly shall provide for the time and mode...

Section 9 - The exemptions contained in the Constitution of 1868 shall apply...

Section 10 - The homestead provided for in this article shall inure to...

Article 10: agriculture, mining and manufacture

Section 1 - The General Assembly shall pass such laws as will foster...

Section 2 - The General Assembly, when deemed expedient, may create the office...

Section 3 - The General Assembly may, by general law, exempt from taxation...

Article 11: militia

Section 1 - The militia shall consist of all able-bodied male persons, residents...

Section 2 - Volunteer Companies of Infantry, Cavalry or Artillery may be formed...

Section 3 - The volunteer and militia forces shall in all cases (except...

Section 4 - The Governor shall, when the General Assembly is not in...

Article 12: municipal and private corporations

Section 1 - All existing charters or grants of special or exclusive privileges,...

Section 2 - The General Assembly shall pass no special act conferring corporate...

Section 3 - The General Assembly shall provide, by general laws, for the...

Section 4 - No municipal corporation shall be authorized to pass any laws...

Section 5 - (d) The General Assembly, by a three-fourths vote of each...

Section 6 - Corporations may be formed under general laws; which laws may,...

Section 7 - Except as herein provided, the State shall never become a...

Section 8 - No private corporation shall issue stocks or bonds, except for...

Section 9 - No property, nor right of way, shall be appropriated to...

Section 10 - No act of the General Assembly shall be passed authorizing...

Section 11 - Foreign corporations may be authorized to do business in this...

Section 12 - Except as herein otherwise provided, the State shall never assume,...

Article 13: counties, county seats and county lines

Section 1 - No county now established shall be reduced to an area...

Section 2 - No part of a county shall be taken off to...

Section 3 - No county seat shall be established or changed without the...

Section 4 - In the formation of new counties no line thereof shall...

Section 5 - Sebastian County may have two districts and two county seats,...

Article 14: education

Section 1 - Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the...

Section 2 - No money or property belonging to the public school fund,...

Section 3 - (a) The General Assembly shall provide for the support of...

Section 4 - The supervision of public schools, and the execution of the...

Article 15: impeachment and address

Section 1 - The Governor and all State officers, Judges of the Supreme...

Section 2 - The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of...

Section 3 - The governor, upon the joint address of two-thirds of all...

Article 16: finance and taxation

Section 1 - Neither the State nor any city, county, town or other...

Section 2 - The General Assembly shall, from time to time, provide for...

Section 3 - The making of profit out of public moneys, or using...

Section 4 - Except as provided in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 31,...

Section 5 - Nothing in this Section shall affect or repeal the provision...

Section 6 - All laws exempting property from taxation, other than as provided...

Section 7 - The power to tax corporations and corporate property, shall not...

Section 8 - The General Assembly shall not have power to levy State...

Section 9 - No county shall levy a tax to exceed one-half of...

Section 10 - The taxes of counties, towns and cities shall only be...

Section 11 - No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of law,...

Section 12 - Except as provided in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 31,...

Section 13 - Any citizen of any county, city or town may institute...

Section 14 - (b) The General Assembly shall, by law, provide for procedures...

Section 15 - (a) Residential property used solely as the principal place of...

Section 16 - The General Assembly, upon approval thereof by a vote of...

Article 17: railroads, canals and turnpikes

Section 1 - All railroads, canals and turnpikes shall be public highways, and...

Section 2 - Every railroad, canal or turnpike corporation operated, or partly operated...

Section 3 - All individuals, associations and corporations shall have equal right to...

Section 4 - No railroad, canal or other corporation, or the lessees, purchasers...

Section 5 - No president, director, officer, agent or employee of any railroad...

Section 6 - No discrimination in charges, or facilities for transportation, shall be...

Section 7 - The General Assembly shall prevent by law the granting of...

Section 8 - The General Assembly shall not remit the forfeiture of the...

Section 9 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never...

Section 10 - The General Assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and...

Section 11 - That rolling stock and all other movable property belonging to...

Section 12 - All railroads, which are now, or may be hereafter built,...

Section 13 - The directors of every railroad corporation shall annually make a...

Article 18: judicial circuits -

Article 19: miscellaneous provisions

Section 1 - No person who denies the being of a God shall...

Section 2 - No person who may hereafter fight a duel, assist in...

Section 3 - No persons shall be elected to, or appointed to fill...

Section 4 - All civil officers for the State at large shall reside...

Section 5 - All officers shall continue in office after the expiration of...

Section 6 - No person shall hold or perform the duties of more...

Section 7 - Absence on business of the State, or of the United...

Section 8 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to...

Section 9 - The General Assembly shall have no power to create any...

Section 10 - Returns for all elections, for officers who are to be...

Section 12 - An accurate and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures...

Section 14 - (f) Except as herein specifically provided, lotteries and the sale...

Section 16 - All contracts for erecting or repairing public buildings or bridges...

Section 17 - The laws of this State, civil and criminal, shall be...

Section 18 - The General Assembly, by suitable enactments, shall require such appliances...

Section 19 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to...

Section 20 - Senators and Representatives, and all judicial and executive, State and...

Section 21 - The sureties upon the official bonds of all State Officers...

Section 22 - Either branch of the General Assembly, at a regular session...

Section 24 - The General Assembly shall provide by law the mode of...

Section 25 - The present seal of the State shall be and remain...

Section 26 - Militia officers, and officers of the public schools, and Notaries...

Section 27 - Nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to...

Section 28 - (e)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (e)(2) of this section,...

Section 29 - (d)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (d)(2) of this section,...

Section 30 - (d)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (d)(2) of this section,...

Section 31 - (k) The independent citizens commission shall be subject to the...

Article 20: "holford" bonds not to be paid -

Section 1 - All laws now in force, which are not in conflict...

Section 3 - An election shall be held at the several election precincts...

Section 4 - The qualification of voters at the election, to be held...

Section 5 - The State Board of Supervisors, hereinafter mentioned, shall give notice...

Section 6 - The Governor shall also issue a proclamation enjoining upon all...

Section 7 - Augustus H. Garland, Gordon N. Peay and Dudley E. Jones...

Section 8 - Said State Board shall at once proceed to appoint a...

Section 9 - The State Board shall provide the form of poll books...

Section 10 - The State Board of Supervisors shall cause to be furnished...

Section 11 - The Boards of County Election Supervisors shall at once proceed...

Section 12 - Said election shall be conducted in accordance with existing laws,...

Section 13 - Each elector shall have written or printed on his ticket...

Section 14 - The judges shall deposit the tickets in the ballot-box; but...

Section 15 - All dram shops and drinking houses in this State shall...

Section 16 - The polls shall be opened at eight o'clock in the...

Section 17 - The State Board of Supervisors shall at once proceed, on...

Section 18 - All officers shown to be elected by the abstract of...

Section 19 - At said election the qualified voters of each County and...

Section 20 - All officers elected under this Constitution, except the Governor, Secretary...

Section 21 - Upon the qualification of the officers elected at said election...

Section 22 - The first session of the General Assembly under this constitution...

Section 23 - The County Courts provided for in this Constitution shall be...

Section 24 - All officers now in office whose offices are not abolished...

Section 25 - Any election officer, appointed under the provisions of this schedule,...

Section 26 - All officers elected at the election provided for in this...

Section 27 - The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out...

Section 28 - For members of the General Assembly, the sum of $6...

See also: section 1, article 6, arkansas constitution - The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility...

See also: section 1, article 3, arkansas constitution - Amended Arkansas Constitution, Art. 3, §§ 1, 2; repealed Arkansas...

See also: article 7, arkansas constitution - (G) No other provision of the Constitution of the State...

See also: section 3, article 14, arkansas constitution - (Arkansas Constitution, Art. 14, § 3, as amended by Arkansas...

Amendment 12 - All capital invested in a textile mill in this state...

Amendment 14 - The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special...

Amendment 18 - The provisions of this amendment are separable, and if any...

Amendment 20 - Except for the purpose of refunding the existing outstanding indebtedness...

Amendment 21 - The General Assembly of Arkansas shall by law determine the...

Amendment 22 - After and as soon as, and not before, the legislature...

Amendment 27 - The Governor and the Agricultural and Industrial Commission (or the...

Amendment 28 - The Supreme Court shall make rules regulating the practice of...

Amendment 29 - Only the names of candidates for office nominated by an...

Amendment 30 - [Added by Const. Amend. 72, § 3; amended by Const....

Amendment 31 - After consent of the majority of those voting on the...

Amendment 32 - This amendment shall be self executing and shall become a...

Amendment 33 - Any vacancy arising in the membership of such board or...

Amendment 34 - The General Assembly shall have power to enforce this article...

Amendment 35 - This amendment shall become effective July 1, 1945.

Amendment 36 - Any citizen of Arkansas, while serving in the armed forces...

Amendment 38 - [Added by Const. Amend. 72, § 6; amended by Const....

Amendment 39 - The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws providing...

Amendment 41 - The provisions for the election of a county clerk upon...

Amendment 42 - The Commission shall appoint a Director of Highways who shall...

Amendment 46 - Horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon shall be lawful in...

Amendment 47 - No ad-valorem tax shall be levied upon property by the...

See also: section 3, article 3, arkansas constitution - Voting machines may be used to such extent and under...

Amendment 51 - This amendment shall be known as the "Arkansas Amendment for...

Amendment 52 - No such district shall be created and no such tax...

Amendment 54 - The printing, stationery, and supplies purchased by the General Assembly...

Amendment 55 - All County Officers shall be bonded as provided by law.

Amendment 56 - Compensation of municipal officers and officials shall be fixed by...

Amendment 57 - The provisions of this Amendment shall be in lieu of...

See also: section 5, article 16, arkansas constitution - This amendment shall be in effect from and after January...

See also: section 13, article 19, arkansas constitution - (Arkansas Constitution, Art. 19, § 13, Amended).

Amendment 61 - County quorum courts may annually levy a county road tax...

Amendment 62 - (c) The General Assembly, by a three-fourths vote of each...

Amendment 63 - The Executive Department of this State shall consist of a...

Amendment 65 - This amendment shall be the sole authority required for the...

Amendment 66 - This amendment is alternative to, and cumulative with, impeachment and...

Amendment 68 - This amendment will not affect contraceptives or require an appropriation...

Amendment 70 - Section 2 and Section 3 of Amendment 56 to the...

Amendment 72 - (Arkansas Constitutional Amendments 30 and 38, §§ 1 and 3,...

Amendment 73 - (b) All laws and constitutional provisions which conflict with this...

Amendment 75 - (b) Unless the General Assembly provides another procedure by law,...

Amendment 76 - (r) Severability. If any portion, clause, or phrase of this...

Amendment 78 - The authority conferred by this amendment shall be in addition...

Amendment 79 - (e) Rollback adjustments under Article 16, Section 14 shall be...

Amendment 81 - "That the following is hereby proposed as an amendment to...

Amendment 82 - (e) Bonds may be issued under this amendment pursuant to...

Amendment 83 - The legislature has the power to determine the capacity of...

Amendment 84 - This amendment becomes effective on January 1, 2007.

See also: article 5, arkansas constitution - Amended Arkansas Constitution, Art. 5, §§ 5, 17, 29, 34,...

See also: section 14, article 19, arkansas constitution - Amended Arkansas Constitution, Art. 19, § 14.

Amendment 88 - (3) The sovereign immunity of the State of Arkansas.

See also: article 19, arkansas constitution, amendment 30, amendment 38, amendment 62, amendment 65 and amendment 78 - This amendment repealed Ark. Const., Art. 19, § 13 and...

Amendment 91 - "AGAINST a proposed constitutional amendment to levy a temporary sales...