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Preamble -
Article I: bill of rights
Section 1 - All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have...
Section 2 - All political power is inherent in the people. Government is...
Section 3 - The people have the right to assemble together, in a...
Section 4 - The people have the right to bear arms for their...
Section 5 - The right of trial by jury shall be inviolate, except...
Section 6 - There shall be no slavery in this state; nor involuntary...
Section 7 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship...
Section 8 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...
Section 9 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for...
Section 10 - Except in cases of impeachment, cases arising in the army...
Section 10a - (F) This section shall take effect ninety days after the...
Section 11 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments...
Section 12 - No person shall be transported out of the state, for...
Section 13 - No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in...
Section 14 - The right of the people to be secure in their...
Section 15 - No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil...
Section 16 - All courts shall be open, and every person, for an...
Section 17 - No hereditary emoluments, honors, or privileges, shall ever be granted...
Section 18 - No power of suspending laws shall ever be exercised, except...
Section 19 - Private property shall ever be held inviolate, but subservient to...
Section 19a - The amount of damages recoverable by civil action in the...
Section 19b - (G) Nothing in Section 1e of Article II, Section 36...
Section 20 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair...
Section 21 - (3) "Penalty or fine" means any civil or criminal penalty...
Article II: legislative
Section 1 - The legislative power of the state shall be vested in...
Section 1a - The first aforestated power reserved by the people is designated...
Section 1b - When at any time, not less than ten days prior...
Section 1c - The second aforestated power reserved by the people is designated...
Section 1d - Laws providing for tax levies, appropriations for the current expenses...
Section 1e - (C) The supreme court of Ohio shall have original, exclusive...
Section 1f - The initiative and referendum powers are hereby reserved to the...
Section 1g - Any initiative, supplementary, or referendum petition may be presented in...
Section 2 - Representatives shall be elected biennially by the electors of the...
Section 3 - Senators and representatives shall have resided in their respective districts...
Section 4 - No member of the General Assembly shall, during the term...
Section 5 - No person hereafter convicted of an embezzlement of the public...
Section 6 - Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns,...
Section 7 - The mode of organizing each house of the General Assembly...
Section 8 - Each General Assembly shall convene in first regular session on...
Section 9 - Each house shall keep a correct journal of its proceedings,...
Section 10 - Any member of either house shall have the right to...
Section 11 - A vacancy in the Senate or in the House of...
Section 12 - Senators and representatives, during the session of the General Assembly,...
Section 13 - The proceedings of both houses shall be public, except in...
Section 14 - Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn...
Section 15 - (F) Every joint resolution which has been adopted in both...
Section 16 - If the governor approves an act, he shall sign it,...
Section 20 - The General Assembly, in cases not provided for in this...
Section 21 - The General Assembly shall determine, by law, before what authority,...
Section 22 - No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except in...
Section 23 - The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of...
Section 24 - The governor, judges, and all state officers, may be impeached...
Section 26 - All laws, of a general nature, shall have a uniform...
Section 27 - The election and appointment of all officers, and the filling...
Section 28 - The General Assembly shall have no power to pass retroactive...
Section 29 - No extra compensation shall be made to any officer, public...
Section 30 - No new county shall contain less than four hundred square...
Section 31 - The members and officers of the General Assembly shall receive...
Section 32 - The General Assembly shall grant no divorce, nor exercise any...
Section 33 - Laws may be passed to secure to mechanics, artisans, laborers,...
Section 34 - Laws may be passed fixing and regulating the hours of...
Section 34a - Except as provided in this section, every employer shall pay...
Section 35 - For the purpose of providing compensation to workmen and their...
Section 36 - Laws may be passed to encourage forestry and agriculture, and...
Section 37 - Except in cases of extraordinary emergency, not to exceed eight...
Section 38 - Laws shall be passed providing for the prompt removal from...
Section 39 - Laws may be passed for the regulation of the use...
Section 40 - Laws may be passed providing for a system of registering,...
Section 41 - Laws may be passed providing for and regulating the occupation...
Section 42 - The General Assembly shall have the power and the immediate...
Article III: executive
Section 1 - The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant governor,...
Section 1a - In the general election for governor and lieutenant governor, one...
Section 1b - The lieutenant governor shall perform such duties in the executive...
Section 2 - The governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer of state,...
Section 3 - The returns of every election for the officers, named in...
Section 5 - The supreme executive power of this state shall be vested...
Section 6 - He may require information, in writing from the officers in...
Section 7 - He shall communicate at every session, by message, to the...
Section 8 - The governor on extraordinary occasions may convene the General Assembly...
Section 9 - In case of disagreement between the two houses, in respect...
Section 10 - He shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces...
Section 11 - The governor shall have power, after conviction, to grant reprieves,...
Section 12 - There shall be a seal of the state, which shall...
Section 13 - All grants and commissions shall be issued in the name,...
Section 14 - No member of Congress, or other person holding office under...
Section 15 - (E) No person shall simultaneously serve as governor and lieutenant...
Section 17 - When a vacancy occurs in both the office of governor...
Section 17a - Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the...
Section 18 - Should the office of auditor of state, treasurer of state,...
Section 19 - The officers mentioned in this article shall, at stated times,...
Section 20 - The officers of the executive department, and of the public...
Section 21 - When required by law, appointments to state office shall be...
Section 22 - The Supreme Court has original, exclusive, and final, jurisdiction to...
Article IV: judicial
Section 1 - The judicial power of the state is vested in a...
Section 2 - (C) The decisions in all cases in the Supreme Court...
Section 3 - (C) Laws may be passed providing for the reporting of...
Section 4 - (C) Unless otherwise provided by law, there shall be probate...
Section 5 - (C) The chief justice of the Supreme Court or any...
Section 6 - (C) No person shall be elected or appointed to any...
Section 13 - In case the office of any judge shall become vacant,...
Section 15 - Laws may be passed to increase or diminish the number...
Section 17 - Judges may be removed from office, by concurrent resolution of...
Section 18 - The several judges of the Supreme Court, of the common...
Section 19 - The General Assembly may establish courts of conciliation, and prescribe...
Section 20 - The style of all process shall be, “The state of...
Section [21]22 - A commission, which shall consist of five members, shall be...
Section 23 - Laws may be passed to provide that in any county...
Article V: elective franchise
Section 1 - Only a citizen of the United States, of the age...
Section 2 - All elections shall be by ballot.
Section 2a - The names of all candidates for an office at any...
Section 4 - The General Assembly shall have power to exclude from the...
Section 6 - No idiot, or insane person, shall be entitled to the...
Section 7 - All nominations for elective state, district, county and municipal offices...
Section 8 - No person shall hold the office of United States Senator...
Section 9 - In determining the eligibility of an individual to hold an...
Article VI: education
Section 1 - The principal of all funds, arising from the sale, or...
Section 2 - The General Assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or...
Section 3 - Provision shall be made by law for the organization, administration...
Section 4 - There shall be a state board of education which shall...
Section 5 - To increase opportunities to the residents of the state for...
Section 6 - (B) The tuition credits program and the Ohio tuition trust...
Article VII: public institutions
Section 1 - Institutions for the benefit of the insane, blind, and deaf...
Section 2 - The directors of the penitentiary shall be appointed or elected...
Section 3 - The governor shall have power to fill all vacancies that...
Article VIII: public debt and public works
Section 1 - The state may contract debts to supply casual deficits or...
Section 2 - In addition to the above limited power, the state may...
Section 2b - The board of commissioners created by section 8 of Art....
Section 2c - The state may contract debts not exceeding five hundred million...
Section 2d - The board of commissioners created by section 8 of Article...
Section 2e - The state may borrow money and issue bonds or other...
Section 2f - In addition to the authorization in Article VIII, Section 2e,...
Section 2g - The state may contract debts not exceeding five hundred million...
Section 2h - The state may, from time to time, borrow not to...
Section 2i - In addition to the authorization otherwise contained in Article VIII...
Section 2j - The board of commissioners created by section 8 of Article...
Section 2k - (E) This section shall otherwise be implemented in the manner...
Section 2l - (F) This section shall be implemented in the manner and...
Section 2m - (F) The authorizations in this section are in addition to...
Section 2n - (G) The authorizations in this section are in addition to...
Section 2o - (G) Obligations issued under this section, their transfer, and the...
Section 2p - (HJR 2; Adopted 11-8-05, effective 11-8-05.) (HJR 12; Adopted May...
Section 2q - (G) Obligations issued under this section, their transfer, and the...
Section 2r - (Sub. SJR 1; Adopted, effective November 3, 2009.)
Section 3 - Except the debts above specified in sections one and two...
Section 4 - The credit of the state shall not, in any manner,...
Section 5 - The state shall never assume the debts of any county,...
Section 6 - No laws shall be passed authorizing any county, city, town...
Section 7 - The faith of the state being pledged for the payment...
Section 8 - The governor, treasurer of state, auditor of state, secretary of...
Section 9 - The commissioners of the sinking fund shall, immediately preceding each...
Section 10 - It shall be the duty of the said commissioners faithfully...
Section 11 - The said commissioners shall, semiannually, make a full and detailed...
Section 13 - To create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities, to improve...
Section 14 - To create or preserve opportunities for safe and sanitary housing...
Section 15 - Laws may be passed authorizing the state to borrow money...
Section 16 - To enhance the availability of adequate housing in the state...
Section 17 - (3) “Direct obligations of the state” means obligations issued by...
Article IX: militia
Section 1 - All citizens, residents of this state, being seventeen years of...
Section 3 - The governor shall appoint the adjutant general, and such other...
Section 4 - The governor shall have power to call forth the militia,...
Section 5 - The General Assembly shall provide, by law, for the protection...
Article X: county and township organizations
Section 1 - The General Assembly shall provide by general law for the...
Section 2 - The General Assembly shall provide by general law for the...
Section 3 - The people of any county may frame and adopt or...
Section 4 - The legislative authority (which includes the Board of County Commissioners)...
Article XI: general assembly redistricting -
Article XII: finance and taxation
Section 1 - No poll tax shall ever be levied in this state,...
Section 2 - No property, taxed according to value, shall be so taxed...
Section 2a - (D) Laws may be passed to provide that the reductions...
Section 3 - (C) Excise and franchise taxes and for the imposition of...
Section 4 - The General Assembly shall provide for raising revenue, sufficient to...
Section 5 - No tax shall be levied, except in pursuance of law;...
Section 5a - No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating...
Section 6 - Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the state shall...
Section 9 - Not less than fifty per cent of the income, estate,...
Section 11 - No bonded indebtedness of the state, or any political subdivisions...
Section 13 - No sales or other excise taxes shall be levied or...
Article XIII: corporations
Section 1 - The General Assembly shall pass no special act conferring corporate...
Section 2 - Corporations may be formed under general laws; but all such...
Section 3 - Dues from private corporations shall be secured by such means...
Section 4 - The property of corporations, now existing or hereafter created, shall...
Section 5 - No right of way shall be appropriated to the use...
Section 6 - The General Assembly shall provide for the organization of cities,...
Section 7 - No act of the General Assembly, authorizing associations with banking...
Article XIV: ohio livestock care standards board
Section 1 - (Am. Sub. SJR 6; Adopted, effective November 3, 2009.)
Article XV: miscellaneous
Section 1 - Columbus shall be the seat of government, until otherwise directed...
Section 3 - An accurate and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures...
Section 4 - No person shall be elected or appointed to any office...
Section 6 - (SJR 8; Adopted May 4, 2010; Effective May 4, 2010)
Section 7 - Every person chosen or appointed to any office under this...
Section 10 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state,...
Section 11 - Only a union between one man and one woman may...
Article XVI: amendments
Section 1 - Such proposed amendments, the ballot language, the explanations, and the...
Section 2 - Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of...
Section 3 - At the general election to be held in the year...
Article XVII: elections
Section 1 - The General Assembly may extend existing terms of office as...
Section 2 - Any vacancy which may occur in any elective state office...
Article XVIII: municipal corporations
Section 1 - Municipal corporations are hereby classified into cities and villages. All...
Section 2 - General laws shall be passed to provide for the incorporation...
Section 3 - Subject to the requirements of Section 1 of Article V...
Section 4 - Any municipality may acquire, construct, own, lease and operate within...
Section 5 - Any municipality proceeding to acquire, construct, own, lease or operate...
Section 6 - Any municipality, owning or operating a public utility for the...
Section 7 - Any municipality may frame and adopt or amend a charter...
Section 8 - The legislative authority of any city or village may by...
Section 9 - Amendments to any charter framed and adopted as herein provided...
Section 10 - A municipality appropriating or otherwise acquiring property for public use...
Section 11 - Any municipality appropriating private property for a public improvement may...
Section 12 - Any municipality which acquires, constructs or extends any public utility...
Section 13 - Laws may be passed to limit the power of municipalities...
Section 14 - All elections and submissions of questions provided for in this...
Article XIX: congressional redistricting -
Schedule
Section 1 - All laws of this state, in force on the first...
Section 2 - The first election for members of the General Assembly, under...
Section 3 - The first election for governor, lieutenant governor, auditor, treasurer, and...
Section 4 - The first election for judges of the Supreme Court, courts...
Section 5 - The register and receiver of the land office, directors of...
Section 6 - The superior and commercial courts of Cincinnati, and the superior...
Section 7 - All county and township officers and justices of the peace,...
Section 8 - Vacancies in office, occurring after the first day of September,...
Section 9 - This constitution shall take effect, on the first day of...
Section 10 - All officers shall continue in office, until their successors shall...
Section 11 - Suits pending in the Supreme Court in bank, shall be...
Section 12 - The district courts shall, in their respective counties, be the...
Section 13 - The said courts of common pleas, shall be the successors...
Section 14 - The probate courts provided for in this constitution, as to...
Section 15 - Until otherwise provided by law, elections for judges and clerks...
Section 16 - Where two or more counties are joined in a senatorial,...
Section 17 - The result of this election, excluding the returns of two...
Section 18 - This election resulted: "License to sell intoxicating liquors, No"......................................................... 113,237...
Section 19 - Done in convention, at Cincinnati, the tenth day of March,...
Section 20 - The several amendments passed and submitted by this convention when...
Section 20a - The several proposals duly passed by this convention shall be...
Section 21 - The foregoing amendment, if adopted by the electors shall take...
Section 22 - If the foregoing amendment shall be adopted by the electors,...
Section 23 - If the foregoing amendment be adopted by the electors it...
Section 24 - If the foregoing amendment to the constitution be adopted by...
Section 25 - If the proposed amendment be adopted, it shall become section...
Section 26 - If the votes for the proposal shall exceed those against...
Section 27 - If the votes for the proposal shall exceed those against...
Section 28 - If the votes for the proposal shall exceed those against...
Section 29 - If the vote for the proposal shall exceed those against...
Section 30 - (E) Any judge who is holding office on December 31,...
Section 31 - Section 1b of Article III authorizing the governor to assign...
Section 32 - If, on the effective date of this amendment, section number...
Section 33 - If, on the effective date of this amendment, section number...