Wyoming constitution

Article 1: declaration of rights

Section 1 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free...

Section 2 - In their inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit...

Section 3 - Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights...

Section 4 - The right of the people to be secure in their...

Section 5 - No person shall be imprisoned for debt, except in cases...

Section 6 - No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property...

Section 7 - Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of...

Section 8 - All courts shall be open and every person for an...

Section 9 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate in...

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

Section 11 - No person shall be compelled to testify against himself in...

Section 12 - No person shall be detained as a witness in any...

Section 13 - Until otherwise provided by law, no person shall, for a...

Section 14 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for...

Section 15 - The penal code shall be framed on the humane principles...

Section 16 - No person arrested and confined in jail shall be treated...

Section 17 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...

Section 18 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship...

Section 19 - No money of the state shall ever be given or...

Section 20 - Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all...

Section 21 - The right of petition, and of the people peaceably to...

Section 22 - The rights of labor shall have just protection through laws...

Section 23 - The right of the citizens to opportunities for education should...

Section 24 - The right of citizens to bear arms in defense of...

Section 25 - The military shall ever be in strict subordination to the...

Section 26 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...

Section 27 - Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power,...

Section 28 - No tax shall be imposed without the consent of the...

Section 29 - No distinction shall ever be made by law between resident...

Section 30 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a...

Section 31 - Water being essential to industrial prosperity, of limited amount, and...

Section 32 - Private property shall not be taken for private use unless...

Section 33 - Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public...

Section 34 - All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform...

Section 35 - No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the...

Section 36 - The enumeration in this constitution, of certain rights shall not...

Section 37 - The State of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the...

Section 38 - (d) The state of Wyoming shall act to preserve these...

Section 39 - The opportunity to fish, hunt and trap wildlife is a...

Article 2: distribution of powers

Section 1 - The powers of the government of this state are divided...

Article 3: legislative department

Section 1 - The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and...

Section 2 - Senators shall be elected for the term of four (4)...

Section 3 - Each county shall constitute a senatorial and representative district; the...

Section 5 - Members of the senate and house of representatives shall be...

Section 6 - The legislature shall not meet for more than sixty (60)...

Section 7 - (ii) The presiding officers of each house shall also jointly...

Section 8 - No senator or representative shall, during the term for which...

Section 9 - No member of either house shall, during the term for...

Section 10 - The senate shall, at the beginning and close of each...

Section 11 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to...

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

Section 13 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and...

Section 14 - The sessions of each house and of the committee of...

Section 15 - Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn...

Section 16 - The members of the legislature shall, in all cases, except...

Section 17 - The sole power of impeachment shall vest in the house...

Section 18 - The governor and other state and judicial officers except justices...

Section 19 - Except as hereafter provided, all officers not liable to impeachment...

Section 20 - No law shall be passed except by bill, and no...

Section 21 - The enacting clause of every law shall be as follows:...

Section 22 - No bill for the appropriation of money, except for the...

Section 23 - No bill shall be considered or become a law unless...

Section 24 - No bill, except general appropriation bills and bills for the...

Section 25 - No bill shall become a law except by a vote...

Section 26 - No law shall be revised or amended, or the provisions...

Section 27 - The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in...

Section 28 - The presiding officer of each house shall, in the presence...

Section 29 - The legislature shall prescribe by law the number, duties and...

Section 30 - No bill shall be passed giving any extra compensation to...

Section 31 - All stationery, printing, paper, fuel and lights used in the...

Section 32 - Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, no law shall...

Section 33 - All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house...

Section 34 - The general appropriation bills shall embrace nothing but appropriations for...

Section 35 - Except for interest on public debt, money shall be paid...

Section 36 - No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or...

Section 37 - The legislature shall not delegate to any special commissioner, private...

Section 38 - The legislature may authorize the investment of trust funds by...

Section 39 - The legislature shall have no power to pass any law...

Section 40 - No obligation or liability of any person, association or corporation...

Section 41 - Every order, resolution or vote, in which the concurrence of...

Section 42 - If any person elected to either house of the legislature...

Section 43 - Any person who shall directly or indirectly offer, give or...

Section 44 - Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful...

Section 45 - The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the legislature...

Section 46 - A member who has a personal or private interest in...

Section 47 - One representative in the congress of the United States shall...

Section 48 - At the first budget session of the legislature following the...

Section 49 - Congressional districts may be altered from time to time as...

Section 50 - Uinta County, two senators and three representatives.

Section 51 - When vacancies shall occur in the membership of either house...

Section 52 - (g) The initiative shall not be used to dedicate revenues,...

Section 53 - Notwithstanding Article 4, Section 5 of this Constitution, the legislature...

Article 4: executive department

Section 1 - The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who...

Section 2 - No person shall be eligible to the office of governor...

Section 3 - The governor shall be elected by the qualified electors of...

Section 4 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of...

Section 5 - The governor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures,...

Section 6 - If the governor be impeached, displaced, resign or die, or...

Section 7 - When any office from any cause becomes vacant, and no...

Section 8 - Every bill which has passed the legislature shall, before it...

Section 9 - The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item...

Section 10 - Any governor of this state who asks, receives or agrees...

Section 11 - There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the...

Section 12 - The powers and duties of the secretary of state, of...

Section 13 - Until otherwise provided by law, the governor shall receive an...

Section 14 - The legislature shall provide by law for examination of the...

Section 15 - The seal of the Territory of Wyoming as now used...

Article 5: judicial department

Section 1 - The judicial power of the state shall be vested in...

Section 2 - The supreme court shall have general appellate jurisdiction, co-extensive with...

Section 3 - The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto...

Section 4 - (h) A justice or judge selected hereunder, or one that...

Section 5 - Subject to the further provisions of this section, the legislature...

Section 6 - (j) This section applies to all judicial officers during their...

Section 7 - At least two terms of the supreme court shall be...

Section 8 - No person shall be eligible to the office of justice...

Section 9 - There shall be a clerk of the supreme court who...

Section 10 - The district court shall have original jurisdiction of all causes...

Section 11 - The judges of the district courts may hold courts for...

Section 12 - No person shall be eligible to the office of judge...

Section 13 - There shall be a clerk of the district court in...

Section 14 - The legislature shall provide by law for the appointment by...

Section 15 - The style of all process shall be "The State of...

Section 16 - No duties shall be imposed by law upon the supreme...

Section 17 - The judges of the supreme and district courts shall receive...

Section 18 - Writs of error and appeals may be allowed from the...

Section 19 - Until otherwise provided by law, the state shall be divided...

Section 20 - Until otherwise provided by law, said judicial districts shall be...

Section 21 - The legislature may from time to time increase the number...

Section 24 - The time of holding courts in the several counties of...

Section 25 - No judge of the supreme or district court shall act...

Section 26 - Until the legislature shall provide by law for fixing the...

Section 27 - No judge of the supreme or district court shall be...

Section 28 - Appeals from decisions of compulsory boards of arbitration shall be...

Section 29 - The legislature may by general law provide for such juvenile...

Article 6: suffrage and elections

Section 1 - The rights of citizens of the State of Wyoming to...

Section 2 - Every citizen of the United States of the age of...

Section 3 - Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony or breach...

Section 4 - No elector shall be obliged to perform militia duty on...

Section 5 - No person shall be deemed a qualified elector of this...

Section 6 - All persons adjudicated to be mentally incompetent or persons convicted...

Section 7 - No elector shall be deemed to have lost his residence...

Section 8 - No soldier, seaman, or marine in the army or navy...

Section 9 - No person shall have the right to vote who shall...

Section 10 - Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person...

Section 11 - All elections shall be by ballot. The legislature shall provide...

Section 12 - No person qualified to be an elector of the State...

Section 13 - The legislature shall pass laws to secure the purity of...

Section 14 - The legislature shall, by general law, designate the courts by...

Section 15 - No person except a qualified elector shall be elected or...

Section 16 - Every person holding any civil office under the state or...

Section 17 - All general elections for state and county officers, for members...

Section 18 - All officers, whose election is not provided for in this...

Section 19 - No member of congress from this state, nor any person...

Section 20 - Senators and representatives and all judicial, state and county officers...

Section 21 - The foregoing oath shall be administered by some person authorized...

Section 22 - The provisions of section 11 of article 6 of this...

Article 7: education; state institutions; promotion of health and morals; public buildings

Section 1 - The legislature shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of...

Section 2 - The following are declared to be perpetual funds for school...

Section 3 - To the sources of revenue above mentioned shall be added...

Section 4 - All money, stocks, bonds, lands and other property belonging to...

Section 5 - All fines and penalties under general laws of the state...

Section 6 - All funds belonging to the state for public school purposes,...

Section 7 - The income arising from the funds mentioned in the preceding...

Section 8 - Provision shall be made by general law for the equitable...

Section 9 - The legislature shall make such further provision by taxation or...

Section 10 - In none of the public schools so established and maintained...

Section 11 - Neither the legislature nor the superintendent of public instruction shall...

Section 12 - No sectarian instruction, qualifications or tests shall be imparted, exacted,...

Section 14 - The general supervision of the public schools shall be entrusted...

Section 15 - The establishment of the University of Wyoming is hereby confirmed,...

Section 16 - The university shall be equally open to students of both...

Section 17 - The legislature shall provide by law for the management of...

Section 18 - Such charitable, reformatory and penal institutions as the claims of...

Section 19 - The property of all charitable and penal institutions belonging to...

Section 20 - As the health and morality of the people are essential...

Section 21 - All public buildings and other property, belonging to the territory...

Section 22 - The construction, care and preservation of all public buildings of...

Section 23 - The legislature shall have no power to change or to...

Article 8: irrigation and water rights

Section 1 - The water of all natural streams, springs, lakes or other...

Section 2 - There shall be constituted a board of control, to be...

Section 3 - Priority of appropriation for beneficial uses shall give the better...

Section 4 - The legislature shall by law divide the state into four...

Section 5 - There shall be a state engineer who shall be appointed...

Article 9: mines and mining

Section 1 - There shall be established and maintained the office of inspector...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by law for the proper development,...

Section 4 - For any injury to person or property caused by wilful...

Section 5 - The legislature may provide that the science of mining and...

Article 10: corporations

Section 1 - The legislature shall provide for the organization of corporations by...

Section 2 - All powers and franchises of corporations are derived from the...

Section 4 - (c) Any contract or agreement with any employee waiving any...

Section 5 - No corporation organized under the laws of Wyoming Territory or...

Section 6 - Corporations shall have power to engage in such and as...

Section 7 - All corporations engaged in the transportation of persons, property, mineral...

Section 8 - There shall be no consolidation or combination of corporations of...

Section 9 - The right of eminent domain shall never be so abridged...

Section 10 - The legislature shall provide by suitable legislation for the organization...

Section 11 - Any railroad corporation or association organized for the purpose, shall...

Section 12 - Railroad and telegraph lines heretofore constructed or that may hereafter...

Section 13 - Every railroad corporation or association operating a line of railroad...

Section 14 - Exercise of the power and right of eminent domain shall...

Section 15 - Neither the state, nor any county, township, school district or...

Section 16 - No railroad or other transportation company or telegraph company in...

Section 17 - Any association, corporation or lessee of the franchises thereof organized...

Section 18 - No foreign railroad or telegraph line shall do any business...

Section 19 - No railroad company shall construct or operate a railroad within...

Article 11: boundaries

Section 1 - No railroad company shall construct or operate a railroad within...

Article 12: county organization

Section 1 - The several counties in the Territory of Wyoming as they...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by general law for organizing new...

Section 3 - The legislature shall provide by general law for changing county...

Section 4 - The legislature shall provide by general law for a system...

Section 5 - The legislature shall provide by law for the election of...

Article 13: municipal corporations

Section 1 - (d) The powers and authority granted to cities and towns,...

Section 2 - No municipal corporation shall be organized without the consent of...

Section 3 - The legislature shall restrict the powers of such corporations to...

Section 4 - No street passenger railway, telegraph, telephone or electric light line...

Section 5 - Municipal corporations shall have the same right as individuals to...

Article 14: public officers

Section 1 - All state, city, county, town and school officers, (excepting justices...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by law the fees which may...

Section 3 - The legislature shall by law designate county offices and shall,...

Section 4 - The legislature shall provide by general law for such deputies...

Section 5 - Any county officers performing the duties usually performed by the...

Section 6 - Whenever practicable the legislature may, and whenever the same can...

Article 15: taxation and revenue

Section 1 - All lands and improvements thereon shall be listed for assessment,...

Section 2 - All coal lands in the state from which coal is...

Section 3 - All mines and mining claims from which gold, silver and...

Section 4 - For state revenue, there shall be levied annually a tax...

Section 5 - For county revenue, there shall be levied annually a tax...

Section 6 - No incorporated city or town shall levy a tax to...

Section 7 - All money belonging to the state or to any county,...

Section 8 - The making of profit, directly or indirectly, out of state,...

Section 9 - The legislature shall provide by law for a state board...

Section 10 - The duties of the state board shall be to equalize...

Section 11 - (d) All taxation shall be equal and uniform within each...

Section 12 - The property of the United States, the state, counties, cities,...

Section 13 - No tax shall be levied, except in pursuance of law,...

Section 14 - The power of taxation shall never be surrendered or suspended...

Section 15 - For the support of the public schools in the state...

Section 16 - No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes levied...

Section 17 - There shall be levied each year in each county of...

Section 18 - No tax shall be imposed upon income without allowing full...

Section 19 - The Legislature shall provide by law for an excise tax...

Section 20 - The legislature may from time to time place monies into...

Article 16: public indebtedness

Section 1 - The State of Wyoming shall not, in any manner, create...

Section 2 - No debt in excess of the taxes for the current...

Section 3 - No county in the State of Wyoming shall in any...

Section 4 - No debt in excess of the taxes for the current...

Section 5 - All limitations herein shall refer to the last preceding general...

Section 6 - (b) The state shall not engage in any work of...

Section 7 - No money shall be paid out of the state treasury...

Section 8 - No bond or evidence of indebtedness of the state shall...

Section 9 - The provision of section 6 of article 16 of this...

Section 10 - The provisions of section 6 of article 16 of this...

Section 11 - The provisions of section 6 of article XVI of this...

Section 12 - (e) Notwithstanding the limitation of subsection (d) of this section,...

Section 13 - Notwithstanding any other provision in this constitution, the legislature may...

Article 17: state militia

Section 1 - The militia of the state shall consist of all able-bodied...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by law for the enrollment, equipment...

Section 3 - All militia officers shall be commissioned by the governor, the...

Section 4 - No military organization under the laws of the state shall...

Section 5 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of all the military forces...

Article 18: public lands and donations

Section 1 - The State of Wyoming hereby agrees to accept the grants...

Section 2 - The proceeds from the sale and rental of all lands...

Section 3 - The governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and...

Section 4 - The legislature shall enact the necessary laws for the sale,...

Section 5 - Except a preference right to buy as in this constitution...

Section 6 - If any portion of the interest or income of the...

Article 19: miscellaneous

Section 1 - The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to provide for...

Section 2 - Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day's...

Section 3 - No person not a citizen of the United States or...

Section 4 - The legislature shall, by appropriate legislation, see that the provisions...

Section 6 - No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body,...

Section 7 - It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation,...

Section 8 - The legislature may provide by law for the voluntary submission...

Section 9 - A homestead as provided by law shall be exempt from...

Section 10 - On and after the first day of March, 1935, the...

Section 11 - All monies from any source paid into any public employee...

Article 20: amendments

Section 1 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed...

Section 2 - If two or more amendments are proposed, they shall be...

Section 3 - Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of...

Section 4 - Any constitution adopted by such convention shall have no validity...

Article 21: schedule

Section 2 - All property, real and personal, and all moneys, credits, claims...

Section 3 - All laws now in force in the Territory of Wyoming,...

Section 4 - All fines, penalties, forfeitures and escheats, accruing to the Territory...

Section 5 - All recognizances, bonds, obligations or other undertakings heretofore taken, or...

Section 6 - All officers, civil and military, holding their offices and appointments...

Section 7 - This constitution shall be submitted for adoption or rejection to...

Section 8 - This constitution shall take effect and be in full force...

Section 9 - Immediately upon the admission of the territory as a state,...

Section 10 - The board of commissioners of the several counties shall thereupon...

Section 11 - The governor, secretary of the territory and president of this...

Section 12 - All officers elected at such election, except members of the...

Section 13 - The governor elect of the state, immediately upon his qualifying...

Section 14 - The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to carry into...

Section 15 - Whenever any two of the judges of the supreme court...

Section 16 - Until otherwise provided by law the seals now in use...

Section 17 - Whenever this constitution shall go into effect, records and papers...

Section 18 - Senators and members of the house of representatives shall be...

Section 19 - All county and precinct officers who may be in office...

Section 20 - Members of the legislature and all state officers, district and...

Section 21 - If the first session of the legislature under this constitution...

Section 22 - The first regular election that would otherwise occur following the...

Section 23 - This convention does hereby declare on behalf of the people...

Section 24 - The State of Wyoming is an inseparable part of the...

Section 25 - Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no...

Section 26 - The people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that...

Section 27 - All debts and liabilities of the Territory of Wyoming shall...

Section 28 - Richard H. Scott.