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Preamble -
Article 1: declaration of rights
Section 1 - All men are by Nature free and equal and have...
Section 2 - All political power is inherent in the people[.] Government is...
Section 3 - The right of trial by Jury shall be secured to...
Section 4 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship...
Section 5 - The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus, shall not...
Section 6 - Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,...
Section 7 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties; unless for...
Section 8 - 3. Private property shall not be taken for public use...
Section 9 - Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments...
Section 10 - The people shall have the right freely to assemble together...
Section 11 - 2. The military shall be subordinate to the civil power;...
Section 12 - No soldier shall, in time of Peace be quartered in...
Section 13 - Representation shall be apportioned according to population.
Section 14 - The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts...
Section 15 - No bill of attainder, ex-post-facto law, or law impairing the...
Section 16 - Repealed.
Section 17 - Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of...
Section 18 - The right of the people to be secure in their...
Section 19 - Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war...
Section 20 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair...
Section 22 - 9. Any provision contained in this section shall be deemed...
Article 2: right of suffrage
Section 1 - All citizens of the United States (not laboring under the...
Section 1a - 11. To have complaints about elections and election contests resolved...
Section 2 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed...
Section 3 - Repealed in 1972.
Section 4 - During the day on which any General Election shall be...
Section 5 - All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and...
Section 6 - Provision shall be made by law for the registration of...
Section 7 - Repealed in 1966.
Section 8 - All persons qualified by law to vote for representatives to...
Section 9 - Every public officer in the State of Nevada is subject,...
Section 10 - 2. The Legislature shall provide by law for the limitation...
Article 3: distribution of powers
Section 1 - (c) The nullification of any such regulation by a majority...
Article 4: legislative department
Section 1 - The Legislative authority of this State shall be vested in...
Section 2 - 4. For the purposes of this section, “midnight Pacific time”...
Section 2a - 6. For the purposes of this section, “midnight Pacific time”...
Section 3 - 2. No person may be elected or appointed as a...
Section 4 - 2. No person may be elected or appointed as a...
Section 5 - It shall be the mandatory duty of the Legislature at...
Section 6 - Each House shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns...
Section 7 - Either House, during the session, may punish, by imprisonment, any...
Section 8 - No Senator or member of Assembly shall, during the term...
Section 9 - No person holding any lucrative office under the Government of...
Section 10 - Any person who shall be convicted of the embezzlement, or...
Section 11 - Members of the Legislature shall be privileged from arrest on...
Section 12 - In case of the death or resignation of any member...
Section 13 - A majority of all the members elected to each House...
Section 14 - Each House shall keep a journal of its own proceedings...
Section 15 - The doors of each House shall be kept open during...
Section 16 - Any bill may originate in either House of the Legislature,...
Section 17 - Each law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one...
Section 18 - 4. Each House may provide by rule for the creation...
Section 19 - No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in...
Section 20 - Releasing the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any corporation, association,...
Section 21 - In all cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in...
Section 22 - Provision may be made by general law for bringing suit...
Section 23 - The enacting clause of every law shall be as follows:...
Section 24 - 2. The State and the political subdivisions thereof shall not...
Section 25 - The Legislature shall establish a system of County and Township...
Section 26 - The Legislature shall provide by law, for the election of...
Section 27 - Laws shall be made to exclude from serving on juries,...
Section 28 - No money shall be drawn from the State Treasury as...
Section 29 - Repealed in 1958.
Section 30 - A homestead as provided by law, shall be exempt from...
Section 31 - All property, both real and personal, of a married person...
Section 32 - The Legislature shall have power to increase, diminish, consolidate or...
Section 33 - The members of the Legislature shall receive for their services...
Section 34 - Repealed in 2004.
Section 35 - Every bill which may have passed the Legislature, shall, before...
Section 36 - The legislature shall not abolish any county unless the qualified...
Section 37 - The legislature, in order to insure continuity of state and...
Section 37[a] - Notwithstanding the general provisions of sections 20, 25, 26, and...
Section 38 - (b) Require reimbursement by an insurer for medical use of...
Section 39 - 4. Should any part of this Act be declared invalid,...
Article 5: executive department
Section 1 - The supreme executive power of this State, shall be vested...
Section 2 - The Governor shall be elected by the qualified electors at...
Section 3 - No person shall be eligible to the Office of Governor,...
Section 4 - The returns of every election for United States senator and...
Section 5 - The Governor shall be Commander in Chief of the Military...
Section 6 - He shall transact all executive business with the Officers of...
Section 7 - He shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Section 8 - When any Office shall, from any cause become vacant and...
Section 9 - 4. For the purposes of this section, “midnight Pacific time”...
Section 10 - He shall communicate by Message to the Legislature at every...
Section 11 - In case of a disagreement between the two Houses with...
Section 12 - No person shall, while holding any office under the United...
Section 13 - The Governor shall have the power to suspend the collection...
Section 14 - 7. The legislature is authorized to pass laws conferring upon...
Section 15 - There shall be a Seal of this State, which shall...
Section 16 - All grants and commissions shall be in the name and...
Section 17 - A Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the same time...
Section 18 - In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his...
Section 19 - 2. Any elector shall be eligible to any of these...
Section 20 - The Secretary of State shall keep a true record of...
Section 21 - The Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General shall constitute...
Section 22 - The Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Controller, Attorney General,...
Article 6: judicial department
Section 1 - The judicial power of this State is vested in a...
Section 2 - (b) For the places of holding court by panels of...
Section 3 - The justices of the Supreme Court, shall be elected by...
Section 3a - 4. The Supreme Court shall provide by rule for the...
Section 4 - 3. In the case of the disability or disqualification, for...
Section 5 - The State is hereby divided into nine judicial districts of...
Section 6 - (b) The establishment of a family court as a division...
Section 7 - The times of holding the Supreme Court, the court of...
Section 8 - 3. The Legislature shall also prescribe by law the manner,...
Section 9 - Provision shall be made by law prescribing the powers[,] duties...
Section 10 - No Judicial Officer, except Justices of the Peace and City...
Section 11 - The justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the...
Section 12 - Judges shall not charge juries in respect to matters of...
Section 13 - The style of all process shall be “The State of...
Section 14 - There shall be but one form of civil action, and...
Section 15 - The justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the...
Section 16 - The Legislature at its first Session, and from time to...
Section 17 - The Legislature shall have no power to grant leave of...
Section 18 - No Judicial Officer shall be superceeded [superseded] nor shall the...
Section 19 - 3. This section becomes effective July 1, 1977.
Section 20 - 8. After the expiration of 30 days from the date...
Section 21 - (d) Exercise such further powers as the Legislature may from...
Article 7: impeachment and removal from office
Section 1 - The Assembly shall have the sole power of impeaching. The...
Section 2 - The Governor and other state and judicial officers, except justices...
Section 3 - For any reasonable cause to be entered on the journals...
Section 4 - Provision shall be made by law for the removal from...
Article 8: municipal and other corporations
Section 1 - The Legislature shall pass no Special Act in any manner...
Section 2 - All real property, and possessory rights to the same, as...
Section 3 - Dues from corporations shall be secured by such means as...
Section 4 - Corporations created by or under the laws of the Territory...
Section 5 - Corporations may sue and be sued in all courts, in...
Section 6 - No bank notes or paper of any kind shall ever...
Section 7 - No right of way shall be appropriated to the use...
Section 8 - The legislature shall provide for the organization of cities and...
Section 9 - The State shall not donate or loan money, or its...
Section 10 - No county, city, town, or other municipal corporation shall become...
Article 9: finance and state debt
Section 1 - The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of...
Section 2 - 4. The public employees’ retirement system must be governed by...
Section 3 - The State, notwithstanding the foregoing limitations, may, pursuant to authority...
Section 4 - The State shall never assume the debts of any county,...
Section 5 - The proceeds from the imposition of any license or registration...
Article 10: taxation
Section 1 - 10. The Legislature may provide by law for an abatement...
Section 2 - The total tax levy for all public purposes including levies...
Section [3] - Household goods and furniture of single household exempt from taxation....
Section 3[a] - (a) Prepared food intended for immediate consumption. (b) Alcoholic beverages.
Section 4 - 4. Not charge interest on a deferred or belated payment...
Section 5 - 3. Each patented mine or mining claim must be assessed...
Section 6 - (b) Provide a specific date on which the exemption will...
Article 11: education
Section 1 - The legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion...
Section 2 - The legislature shall provide for a uniform system of common...
Section 3 - All lands granted by Congress to this state for educational...
Section 4 - The Legislature shall provide for the establishment of a State...
Section 5 - The Legislature shall have power to establis [establish] Normal schools,...
Section 6 - 6. As used in this section, “biennium” means a period...
Section 7 - The Governor, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Public Instruction,...
Section 8 - The Board of Regents shall, from the interest accruing from...
Section 9 - No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or tolerated in any...
Section ten - No public funds of any kind or character whatever, State,...
Article 12: militia
Section 1 - The Legislature shall provide by law for organizing and disciplining...
Section 2 - The Governor shall have power to call out the Militia...
Article 13: public institutions
Section 1 - Institutions for the benefit of the Insane, Blind and Deaf...
Section 2 - A State Prison shall be established and maintained in such...
Section 3 - Repealed in 1937.
Article 14: boundary
Section 1 - Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the...
Article 15: miscellaneous provisions
Section 1 - The seat of Government shall be at Carson City, but...
Section 2 - I, ................, do solemly [solemnly] swear (or affirm) that I...
Section 3 - 2. No person may be elected to any state office...
Section 4 - No perpetuities shall be allowed except for eleemosynary purposes.
Section 5 - The general election shall be held on the Tuesday next...
Section 6 - The aggregate number of members of both branches of the...
Section 7 - All county Officers shall hold their Offices at the County...
Sec: 8 - [Effective through November 22, 2010, and after that date unless...
Section 8 - The Legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all...
text of section 8: publication of general statutes and decisions of supreme court; effective date of decisions of supreme court [was effective through november 24, 2014.] the legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all statute laws - The Legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all...
Section 9 - The Legislature may, at any time, provide by law for...
Section 10 - All officers whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided...
Section 11 - The tenure of any office not herein provided for may...
Sec: 12 - The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Controller, and...
Section 13 - The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State shall be...
Section 14 - A plurality of votes given at an election by the...
Section 15 - The legislature shall provide by law for a state merit...
Section 16 - 9. If any provision of this section is declared illegal,...
Article 16: amendments
Section 1 - 3. If, after the proposal of an amendment, another amendment...
Section 2 - If at any time the Legislature by a vote of...
Article 17: schedule
Section 1 - That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change...
Section 2 - All laws of the Territory of Nevada in force at...
Section 3 - All fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the Territory of...
Section 4 - All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before...
Section 5 - For the first term of office succeeding the formation of...
Section 6 - Until otherwise provided by Law the apportionment of Senators and...
Section 7 - All debts and liabilities of the Territory of Nevada, lawfully...
Section 8 - The term of State Officers, except Judicial, elected at the...
Section 9 - The Senators to be elected at the first election under...
Section 10 - At the general election in A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty...
Section 11 - The term of the members of the Assembly elected at...
Section 12 - The first regular session of the Legislature shall commence on...
Section 13 - All county officers under the laws of the Territory of...
Section 14 - The Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Instruction of...
Section 15 - The terms of the Supreme Court shall, until provision be...
Section 16 - The Judges of the several District Courts of this State...
Section 17 - The salary of any Judge in said Judicial Districts may...
Section 18 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State...
Section 19 - The Judges of the Supreme Court and District Judges to...
Section 20 - All officers of State, and District Judges first elected under...
Section 21 - Each County, Town, City, and Incorporated Village shall make provision...
Section 22 - In case the office of any State officer, except a...
Section 23 - All cases both civil and criminal, which may be pending...
Section 24 - For the first Three Years after the adoption of this...
Section 25 - The County of Roop shall be attached to the County...
Section 26 - At the first regular session of the Legislature to convene...
Article XVIII: right of suffrage
Article XVIII - Repealed in 1992.
Article 19: initiative and referendum
Section 1 - 3. If a majority of the voters voting upon the...
Section 2 - 6. If, at the same election as the first approval...
Section 3 - 2. The Legislature may authorize the Secretary of State and...
Section 4 - The initiative and referendum powers provided for in this article...
Section 5 - The provisions of this article are self-executing but the legislature...
Section 6 - This Article does not permit the proposal of any statute...