Nebraska Constitution
Neb. Rev. Stat. div. Constitution
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sectionI-1. Statement of rights.sectionI-2. Slavery prohibited.sectionI-3. Due process of law; equal protection.sectionI-4. Religious freedom.sectionI-5. Freedom of speech and press.sectionI-6. Trial by jury.sectionI-7. Search and seizure.sectionI-8. Habeas corpus.sectionI-9. Bail; fines; imprisonment; cruel and unusual punishment.sectionI-10. Presentment or indictment by grand jury; information.sectionI-11. Rights of Accused.sectionI-12. Evidence against self; double jeopardy.sectionI-13. Justice administered without delay; Legislature; authorization to enforce mediation and arbitration.sectionI-14. Treason.sectionI-15. Penalties; corruption of blood; transporting out of state prohibited.sectionI-16. Bill of attainder; retroactive laws; contracts; special privileges.sectionI-17. Military subordinate.sectionI-18. Soldiers quarters.sectionI-19. Right of peaceable assembly and to petition government.sectionI-20. Imprisonment for debt prohibited.sectionI-21. Private property compensated for.sectionI-22. Elections to be free; identification required.sectionI-23. Capital cases; right of direct appeal; effect; other cases; right of appeal.sectionI-25. Rights of property; no discrimination; aliens.sectionI-26. Powers retained by people.sectionI-27. English language to be official.sectionI-28. Crime victims; rights enumerated; effect; Legislature; duties.sectionI-29. Marriage; same-sex relationships not valid or recognized.sectionI-30. Discrimination or grant of preferential treatment prohibited; public employment, public education, or public contracting; section, how construed; remedies.sectionI-31. Unborn children; protection from abortion; exceptions.sectionII-1. Legislative, executive, judicial.sectionIII-1. Legislative authority; how vested; power of initiative; power of referendum.sectionIII-2. First power reserved; initiative.sectionIII-3. Second power reserved; referendum.sectionIII-4. Initiative or referendum; signatures required; veto; election returns; constitutional amendments; non-partisan ballot.sectionIII-5. Legislative districts; apportionment; redistricting, when required.sectionIII-6. Legislature; number of members; annual sessions.sectionIII-7. Legislators; terms; effect of redistricting; election; salary; expenses; mileage.sectionIII-8. Legislators; qualifications; one-year residence in district; removal from district, effect.sectionIII-9. Legislators; disqualifications; election to other office; resignation required.sectionIII-10. Legislative sessions; time; quorum; rules of procedure; expulsion of members; disrespectful behavior, penalty.sectionIII-11. Legislative journal; vote viva voce; open doors; committee votes.sectionIII-12. Legislators; terms; limitation.sectionIII-13. Style of bills; majority necessary to passage; yeas and nays entered on journal.sectionIII-14. Bills and resolutions read by title; printing; vote for final passage; bills to contain one subject; amended section to be set forth; signing of bills.sectionIII-15. Members privileged from arrest.sectionIII-16. Members of the Legislature and state officers; conflicts of interest; standards for.sectionIII-17. Impeachment; procedure.sectionIII-18. Local or special laws prohibited.sectionIII-19. Compensation; increase when; extra compensation to public officers and contractors prohibited; retirement benefits; adjustment.sectionIII-20. Salt springs, coal, oil, minerals; alienation prohibited.sectionIII-21. Donation of state lands prohibited; when.sectionIII-22. Appropriations for state; deficiencies; bills for pay of members and officials.sectionIII-24. Games of chance, lotteries, and gift enterprises; restrictions; use of state lottery proceeds; parimutuel wagering on horseraces; bingo games; laws relating to games of chance, applicability.sectionIII-25. Incidental expenses of state officers; specific appropriations always necessary; warrants for money.sectionIII-26. Privilege of members.sectionIII-27. Acts take effect after three months; emergency bills; session laws.sectionIII-29. Legislative authority in emergencies due to enemy attack upon United States.sectionIII-30. Legislature to pass necessary laws.sectionIV-1. Executive departments; officers; when elected; terms; eligibility; books to be kept at seat of government; residence of officers; heads of departments; appointments.sectionIV-2. Governor; Lieutenant Governor; eligibility; qualifications; appointive officers, ineligible for other office.sectionIV-3. Treasurer; ineligibility.sectionIV-4. Election returns; canvass by Legislature; conduct of election contests.sectionIV-5. Impeachment.sectionIV-6. Supreme executive power.sectionIV-7. Message by Governor; budget; contents; budget bill; preparation; appropriations not to be in excess of budget; exception; excess subject to veto.sectionIV-8. Special sessions.sectionIV-10. Governor to appoint officers; removal.sectionIV-11. Elected state officer; vacation of office; Governor fill by appointment; term.sectionIV-12. Nonelective state officers; vacation; Governor; fill the office by appointment; approval by Legislature.sectionIV-13. Board of parole; members; powers; reprieves; proceedings; power to pardon; limitations.sectionIV-14. Governor to be commander-in-chief of militia.sectionIV-15. Bills to be presented to Governor; approval; procedure; disapproval or reduction of items of appropriation; passage despite disapproval or reduction.sectionIV-16. Order of succession to become Governor; Lieutenant Governor; duties.sectionIV-19. State institutions; management, control, and government; determination by Legislature.sectionIV-20. Public Service Commission; membership; terms; powers.sectionIV-22. Executive officials to keep accounts; reports; false reports, penalty.sectionIV-23. Executive officials and heads of institutions; reports to Legislature; information from expending agencies.sectionIV-24. Great seal.sectionIV-25. Salaries of officials; fees.sectionIV-26. Officials to give bonds.sectionIV-27. Executive offices; creation of.sectionIV-28. Tax Equalization and Review Commission; members; powers; Tax Commissioner; powers.sectionIX-1. Area.sectionIX-2. Division of county; decision of question.sectionIX-3. County added to another; prior indebtedness; county stricken off; liabilities.sectionIX-4. County and township officers.sectionIX-5. Township organization.sectionPreamble. PreamblesectionV-1. Power vested in courts; Chief Justice; powers.sectionV-2. Supreme Court; number of judges; quorum; jurisdiction; retired judges, temporary duty; court divisions; assignments by Chief Justice.sectionV-3. Terms of Supreme Court.sectionV-4. Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court; selection; residence; location of offices.sectionV-5. Supreme Court judicial districts; redistricting; when.sectionV-6. Chief Justice to preside.sectionV-7. Chief Justice; Associate Justices; qualifications.sectionV-8. Supreme Court appoint staff; budget; copyright of state reports.sectionV-9. District courts; jurisdiction; felons may plead guilty; sentence.sectionV-10. District court judicial districts.sectionV-11. District court judges; change of number; boundaries.sectionV-12. District court judges may hold court for each other; retired judges, temporary duty.sectionV-13. Supreme and district judges; salaries.sectionV-14. Supreme and district judges not to act as attorneys; judge not to practice law, when.sectionV-19. Practice of all courts to be uniform.sectionV-20. Officers in this Article; tenure; residence; duties; compensation.sectionV-21. Merit plan for selection of judges; terms of office; filling of vacancies; procedure; voting for nominee.sectionV-22. State may sue and be sued.sectionV-23. Jurisdiction of judges at chambers.sectionV-24. Style of process.sectionV-25. Supreme Court to promulgate rules of practice; to make recommendations to Legislature.sectionV-26. Proviso as to effect of amendment.sectionV-27. Juvenile courts; authorization.sectionV-28. Commission on Judicial Qualifications; appointment; composition; qualifications.sectionV-29. Commission on Judicial Qualifications; vote of majority required for action.sectionV-30. Judges; discipline; removal from office; grounds; procedure.sectionV-31. Judges; procedure for removal from office cumulative.sectionVI-1. Qualifications of electors.sectionVI-2. Who disqualified.sectionVI-3. Military or naval service; place and manner of voting.sectionVI-5. Electors; privileged from arrest.sectionVI-6. Votes, how cast.sectionVII-1. Legislature; free instruction in common schools; provide.sectionVII-2. State Department of Education; general supervision of school system.sectionVII-3. State Board of Education; members; election; manner of election; term of office.sectionVII-4. State Board of Education; Commissioner of Education; appointment; powers; duties.sectionVII-5. Fines, penalties, and license money; allocation; use of forfeited conveyances.sectionVII-6. Educational lands; management; Board of Educational Lands and Funds; members; appointment; sale of lands.sectionVII-7. Perpetual funds enumerated.sectionVII-8. Trust funds belong to state for educational purposes; use; investment.sectionVII-9. Educational funds; trust funds; use; early childhood education endowment fund; created; use; early childhood education, defined.sectionVII-10. University of Nebraska; government; Board of Regents; election; student membership; terms.sectionVII-11. Appropriation of public funds; handicapped children; sectarian instruction; religious test of teacher or student.sectionVII-12. Education and reform of minors.sectionVII-13. State colleges; government; board; name; selection; duties; compensation.sectionVII-14. Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; membership; powers and duties; coordination, defined.sectionVII-15. Omitted.sectionVIII-1. Revenue; raised by taxation; legislative powers.sectionVIII-1A. Levy of property tax for state purposes; prohibition.sectionVIII-1B. Income tax; may be based upon the laws of the United States.sectionVIII-2. Exemption of property from taxation; classification.sectionVIII-2A. Exemption of personal property in transit in licensed warehouses or storage areas.sectionVIII-3. Redemption from sales of real estate for taxes.sectionVIII-4. Legislature has no power to remit taxes; exception; cancellation of taxes on land acquired by the state.sectionVIII-5. County taxes; limitation.sectionVIII-6. Local improvements of cities, towns and villages.sectionVIII-7. Private property not liable for corporate debts; municipalities and inhabitants exempt for corporate purposes.sectionVIII-8. Funding indebtedness; warrants.sectionVIII-9. Claims upon treasury; adjustment; approval; appeal.sectionVIII-10. Taxation of grain and seed; alternative basis permitted.sectionVIII-11. Public corporations and political subdivisions providing electricity; payment in lieu of taxes.sectionVIII-12. Cities or villages; redevelopment project; substandard and blighted property; incur indebtedness; taxes; how treated.sectionVIII-13. Revenue laws and legislative acts; how construed.sectionX-1. Reports under oath.sectionX-2. Property liable to sale on execution.sectionX-3. Consolidation of stock or property.sectionX-4. Railways declared public highways; maximum rates; liability not limited.sectionX-5. Capital stock; dividends.sectionX-6. Eminent domain.sectionX-7. Unjust discrimination and extortion.sectionX-8. Eminent domain for depot or other uses.sectionXI-1. Subscription to stock prohibited; exception.sectionXI-2. City of 5,000 may frame charter; procedure.sectionXI-3. Rejection of charter; effect; procedure to frame new charter.sectionXI-4. Charter; amendment; charter convention.sectionXI-5. Charter of city of 100,000; home rule charter authorized.sectionXII-1. Legislature to provide for organization, regulation, and supervision of corporations and associations; limitation; elections for directors or managers; voting rights of stockholders.sectionXII-8. Corporation acquiring an interest in real estate used for farming or ranching or engaging in farming or ranching; restrictions; Secretary of State, Attorney General; duties; Legislature; powers.sectionXIII-1. State may contract debts; limitation; exceptions.sectionXIII-2. Industrial and economic development; powers of counties and municipalities.sectionXIII-3. Credit of state; exception.sectionXIII-4. Nonprofit enterprise development; powers of counties and municipalities.sectionXIV-1. Personnel; organization; discipline.sectionXV-1. Official oath; refusal; disqualification.sectionXV-2. Official in default as collector and custodian of public money or property; disqualification; felon disqualified.sectionXV-4. Water a public necessity.sectionXV-5. Use of water dedicated to people.sectionXV-6. Right to divert unappropriated waters.sectionXV-7. Use of water for power purposes.sectionXV-8. Employment of women and children; minimum wage.sectionXV-9. Controversies between employers and employees; industrial commission; appeals.sectionXV-12. Removal of state capital.sectionXV-13. Labor organizations; no denial of employment; closed shop not permitted.sectionXV-14. Labor organization; definition.sectionXV-15. Labor organizations; amendment self-executing; laws to facilitate operation permitted.sectionXV-17. Retirement and pension funds; investment.sectionXV-18. Governmental powers and functions; intergovernmental cooperation; Legislature may limit; merger or consolidation of counties or other local governments authorized.sectionXV-19. Liquor licenses; municipalities and counties; powers.sectionXV-20. Omitted.sectionXV-21. Omitted.sectionXV-22. Omitted.sectionXV-23. Omitted.sectionXV-24. Omitted.sectionXV-25. Right to hunt, to fish, and to harvest wildlife; public hunting, fishing, and harvesting of wildlife; preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.sectionXV-26. Political subdivision; revenues; commercial passenger air service.sectionXVI-1. How Proposed.sectionXVI-2. Convention.sectionXVII-1. Terms; reference to members of the Legislature to include appointed and elected members.sectionXVII-4. General election of state.sectionXVII-5. Terms of office of all elected officers.sectionXVIII-1. Statement of intent.sectionXVIII-2. Instruction to members of congressional delegation; ballot notation; when.sectionXVIII-3. Nonincumbent candidates; Term Limits Pledge; ballot notation; when.sectionXVIII-4. Instruction to members of the Legislature; ballot notation; when.sectionXVIII-5. Ballot notation; Secretary of State; duties; appeal.sectionXVIII-6. Automatic repeal; when.sectionXVIII-7. Legal challenge; jurisdiction.sectionXVIII-8. Severability.
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