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Az. Const. art. VI, § 12 — Article VI / Section 12
AZ Const., Article VI, Section 12
Status: in_force

Judges of the superior court in counties having a population of less than two hundred fifty thousand persons according to the most recent United States census shall be elected by the qualified electors of their counties at the general election. They shall hold office for a regular term of four years except as provided by this section from and after the first Monday in January next succeeding their election, and until their successors are elected and qualify. The names of all candidates for judge of the superior court in such counties shall be placed on the regular ballot without partisan or other designation except the division and title of the office. The governor shall fill any vacancy in such counties by appointing a person to serve until the election and qualification of a successor. At the next succeeding general election following the appointment of a person to fill a vacancy, a judge shall be elected to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. Judges of the superior court in counties having a population of two hundred fifty thousand persons or more according to the most recent United States census shall hold office for a regular term of four years except as provided by this article. Superior court; composition; salaries; judgments and proceedings; process
Az. Const. art. IX, § 8.1 — Article IX / Section 8.1
AZ Const., Article IX, Section 8.1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8 of this article a unified school district may become indebted to an amount not exceeding thirty per cent of the taxable property of the school district, as shown by the last assessment roll thereof. For purposes of this section, a unified school district is a single school district which provides education to the area within the district for grades kindergarten through twelve and which area is not subject to taxation by any other common or high school district. The provisions of section 18, subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of this article shall not apply to this section. Statement of tax and objects
Az. Const. art. XIII, § 4 — Article XIII / Section 4
AZ Const., Article XIII, Section 4
Status: in_force

No municipal corporation shall ever grant, extend, or renew a franchise without the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing within its corporate limits who shall vote thereon at a general or special election, and the legislative body of any such corporation shall submit any such matter for approval or disapproval to such electors at any general municipal election, or call a special election for such purpose at any time upon thirty days' notice. No franchise shall be granted, extended, or renewed for a longer time than twenty-five years. Right of municipal corporation to engage in business or enterprise
Az. Const. art. VI, § 31 — Article VI / Section 31
AZ Const., Article VI, Section 31
Status: in_force

The legislature may provide for the appointment of members of the bar having the qualifications provided in section 22 of this article as judges pro tempore of courts inferior to the supreme court, except that justices of the peace pro tempore shall have the same qualifications as justices of the peace and do not have to reside in the precinct in which the justice of the peace pro tempore is appointed to serve. When serving, any such person shall have all the judicial powers of a regular elected judge of the court to which the person is appointed. A person so appointed shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law. The population limitation of section 10 of this article shall not apply to the appointment of judges pro tempore of the superior court. Justices of the peace and inferior courts; jurisdiction, powers and duties; terms of office; salaries
Az. Const. art. XVIII, § 8 — Article XVIII / Section 8
AZ Const., Article XVIII, Section 8
Status: in_force

The legislature shall enact a workmen's compensation law applicable to workmen engaged in manual or mechanical labor in all public employment whether of the state, or any political subdivision or municipality thereof as may be defined by law and in such private employments as the legislature may prescribe by which compensation shall be required to be paid to any such workman, in case of his injury and to his dependents, as defined by law, in case of his death, by his employer, if in the course of such employment personal injury to or death of any such workman from any accident arising out of and in the course of, such employment, is caused in whole, or in part, or is contributed to, by a necessary risk or danger of such employment, or a necessary risk or danger inherent in the nature thereof, or by failure of such employer, or any of his or its agents or employee or employees to exercise due care, or to comply with any law affecting such employment; provided that it shall be optional with any employee engaged in any such private employment to settle for such compensation, or to retain the right to sue said employer or any person employed by said employer, acting in the scope of his employment, as provided by this Constitution; and, provided further, in order to assure and make certain a just and humane compensation law in the state of Arizona, for the relief and protection of such workmen, their widows, children or dependents, as defined by law, from the burdensome, expensive and litigious remedies for injuries to or death of such workmen, now existing in the state of Arizona, and producing uncertain and unequal compensation therefor, such employee, engaged in such private employment, may exercise the option to settle for compensation by failing to reject the provisions of such workmen's compensation law prior to the injury, except that if the injury is the result of an act done by the employer or a person employed by the employer knowingly and purposely with the direct object of injuring another, and the act indicates a wilful disregard of the life, limb or bodily safety of employees, then such employee may, after the injury, exercise the option to accept compensation or to retain the right to sue the person who injured him. The percentages and amounts of compensation provided in house bill no. 227 enacted by the seventh legislature of the state of Arizona, shall never be reduced nor any industry included within the provision of said house bill no. 227 eliminated except by initiated or referred measure as provided by this Constitution. Blacklists
Az. Const. art. XIII, § 5 — Article XIII / Section 5
AZ Const., Article XIII, Section 5
Status: in_force

Every municipal corporation within this state shall have the right to engage in any business or enterprise which may be engaged in by a person, firm, or corporation by virtue of a franchise from said municipal corporation. Franchises; restrictions
Az. Const. art. V, § 5 — Article V / Section 5
AZ Const., Article V, Section 5
Status: in_force

The governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutation, and pardons, after convictions, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as may be provided by law. Death, resignation, removal or disability of governor; succession to office; impeachment, absence from state or temporary disability
Az. Const. art. VIII, § 6 — Article VIII / Section 6
AZ Const., Article VIII, Section 6
Status: in_force

The general election laws shall apply to recall elections in so far as applicable. Laws necessary to facilitate the operation of the provisions of this article shall be enacted, including provision for payment by the public treasury of the reasonable special election campaign expenses of such officer. Part II . Power of impeachment in house of representatives; trial by senate
Az. Const. art. II, § 21 — Article II / Section 21
AZ Const., Article II, Section 21
Status: in_force

All elections shall be free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage. Bailable offenses
Az. Const. art. IX, § 24 — Article IX / Section 24
AZ Const., Article IX, Section 24
Status: in_force

The state, any county, city, town, municipality or other political subdivision of the state, or any district created by law with authority to impose any tax, fee, stamp requirement or other assessment, shall not impose any new tax, fee, stamp requirement or other assessment, direct or indirect, on the act or privilege of selling, purchasing, granting, assigning, transferring, receiving, or otherwise conveying any interest in real property. This section does not apply to any tax, fee, or other assessment in existence on December 31, 2007.
Az. Const. art. IV, § 6 — Article IV / Section 6
AZ Const., Article IV, Section 6
Status: in_force

Members of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, and they shall not be subject to any civil process during the session of the legislature, nor for fifteen days next before the commencement of each session. Freedom of debate
Az. Const. art. VII, § 3 — Article VII / Section 3
AZ Const., Article VII, Section 3
Status: in_force

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of being present or absent while employed in the service of the United States, or while a student at any institution of learning, or while kept at any institution or other shelter at public expense, or while confined in any public jail or prison. Privilege of electors from arrest
Az. Const. art. XXII, § 19 — Article XXII / Section 19
AZ Const., Article XXII, Section 19
Status: in_force

The Legislature shall enact laws and adopt rules prohibiting the practice of lobbying on the floor of either House of the Legislature, and further regulating the practice of lobbying. Design of state seal
Az. Const. art. XVII, § 1 — Article XVII / Section 1
AZ Const., Article XVII, Section 1
Status: in_force

The common law doctrine of riparian water rights shall not obtain or be of any force or effect in the state. Recognition of existing rights
Az. Const. art. XIV, § 2 — Article XIV / Section 2
AZ Const., Article XIV, Section 2
Status: in_force

Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special acts. Laws relating to corporations may be altered, amended, or repealed at any time, and all corporations doing business in this state may, as to such business, be regulated, limited, and restrained by law. Existing charters
Az. Const. art. VIII, § 3 — Article VIII / Section 3
AZ Const., Article VIII, Section 3
Status: in_force

If such officer shall offer his resignation it shall be accepted, and the vacancy shall be filled as may be provided by law. If he shall not resign within five days after a recall petition is filed as provided by law, a special election shall be ordered to be held as provided by law, to determine whether such officer shall be recalled. On the ballots at such election shall be printed the reasons as set forth in the petition for demanding his recall, and, in not more than two hundred words, the officer's justification of his course in office. He shall continue to perform the duties of his office until the result of such election shall have been officially declared. Special election; candidates; results; qualification of successor
Az. Const. art. XI, § 3 — Article XI / Section 3
AZ Const., Article XI, Section 3
Status: in_force

The state board of education shall be composed of the following members: the superintendent of public instruction, the president of a state university or a state college, four lay members, a president or chancellor of a community college district, a person who is an owner or administrator of a charter school, a superintendent of a high school district, a classroom teacher and a county school superintendent. Each member, other than the superintendent of public instruction, shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate in the manner prescribed by law. The powers, duties, compensation and expenses, and the terms of office, of the board shall be such as may be prescribed by law. State superintendent of public instruction; board membership; powers and duties
Az. Const. art. XXII, § 22 — Article XXII / Section 22
AZ Const., Article XXII, Section 22
Status: in_force

The judgment of death shall be inflicted by administering an intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death except that defendants sentenced to death for offenses committed prior to the effective date of the amendment to this section shall have the choice of either lethal injection or lethal gas. The lethal injection or lethal gas shall be administered under such procedures and supervision as prescribed by law. The execution shall take place within the limits of the state prison.
Az. Const. art. XVI, § 1 — Article XVI / Section 1
AZ Const., Article XVI, Section 1
Status: in_force

The militia of the state of Arizona shall consist of all capable citizens of the state between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and of those between said ages who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, residing therein, subject to such exemptions as now exist, or as may hereafter be created, by the laws of the United States or of this state. Composition and designation of organized militia
Az. Const. art. II, § 15 — Article II / Section 15
AZ Const., Article II, Section 15
Status: in_force

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Corruption of blood; forfeiture of estate
Az. Const. art. XXV, § 0 — Article XXV / Section 0
AZ Const., Article XXV
Status: in_force

. Right to work No person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of non-membership in a labor organization, nor shall the State or any subdivision thereof, or any corporation, individual or association of any kind enter into any agreement, written or oral, which excludes any person from employment or continuation of employment because of non-membership in a labor organization.
Az. Const. art. XIV, § 7 — Article XIV / Section 7
AZ Const., Article XIV, Section 7
Status: in_force

No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise so as to relieve the franchise, or property held thereunder, from the liabilities of the lessor, or grantor, lessee, or grantee, contracted or incurred in the operation, use, or enjoyment of such franchise or of any of its privileges. Filing of articles of incorporation; place of business; agent for service of process; venue
Az. Const. art. VII, § 17 — Article VII / Section 17
AZ Const., Article VII, Section 17
Status: in_force

There shall be a primary and general election as prescribed by law, which shall provide for nomination and election of a candidate for United States senator and for representative in congress when a vacancy occurs through resignation or any other cause. Term limits on ballot appearances in congressional elections.
Az. Const. art. XV, § 15 — Article XV / Section 15
AZ Const., Article XV, Section 15
Status: in_force

No public service corporation in existence at the time of the admission of this state into the union shall have the benefit of any future legislation except on condition of complete acceptance of all provisions of this Constitution applicable to public service corporations. Forfeitures for violations
Az. Const. art. XIII, § 2 — Article XIII / Section 2
AZ Const., Article XIII, Section 2
Status: in_force

Any city containing, now or hereafter, a population of more than three thousand five hundred may frame a charter for its own government consistent with, and subject to, the Constitution and the laws of the state, in the following manner: A board of freeholders composed of fourteen qualified electors of said city may be elected at large by the qualified electors thereof, at a general or special election, whose duty it shall be, within ninety days after such election, to prepare and propose a charter for such city. Such proposed charter shall be signed in duplicate by the members of such board, or a majority of them, and filed, one copy of said proposed charter with the chief executive officer of such city and the other with the county recorder of the county in which said city shall be situated. Such proposed charter shall then be published in one or more newspapers published, and of general circulation, within said city for at least twenty-one days if in a daily paper, or in three consecutive issues if in a weekly paper, and the first publication shall be made within twenty days after the completion of the proposed charter. Within thirty days, and not earlier than twenty days, after such publication, said proposed charter shall be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of said city at a general or special election. If a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify such proposed charter, it shall thereupon be submitted to the governor for his approval, and the governor shall approve it if it shall not be in conflict with this Constitution or with the laws of the state. Upon such approval said charter shall become the organic law of such city and supersede any charter then existing (and all amendments thereto), and all ordinances inconsistent with said new charter. A copy of such charter, certified by the chief executive officer, and authenticated by the seal, of such city, together with a statement similarly certified and authenticated setting forth the submission of such charter to the electors and its ratification by them, shall, after the approval of such charter by the governor, be made in duplicate and filed, one copy in the office of the secretary of state and the other in the archives of the city after being recorded in the office of said county recorder. Thereafter all courts shall take judicial notice of said charter. The charter so ratified may be amended by amendments proposed and submitted by the legislative authority of the city to the qualified electors thereof (or by petition as hereinafter provided), at a general or special election, and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon and approved by the governor as herein provided for the approval of the charter. Election of board of freeholders
Az. Const. art. X, § 1 — Article X / Section 1
AZ Const., Article X, Section 1
Status: in_force

All lands expressly transferred and confirmed to the state by the provisions of the Enabling Act approved June 20, 1910, including all lands granted to the state and all lands heretofore granted to the Territory of Arizona, and all lands otherwise acquired by the state, shall be by the state accepted and held in trust to be disposed of in whole or in part, only in manner as in the said Enabling Act and in this Constitution provided, and for the several objects specified in the respective granting and confirmatory provisions. The natural products and money proceeds of any of said lands shall be subject to the same trusts as the lands producing the same. Unauthorized disposition of land or proceeds as breach of trust
Az. Const. art. IX, § 22 — Article IX / Section 22
AZ Const., Article IX, Section 22
Status: in_force

An act that provides for a net increase in state revenues, as described in subsection B is effective on the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature. If the act receives such an affirmative vote, it becomes effective immediately on the signature of the governor as provided by article IV, part 1, section 1. If the governor vetoes the measure, it shall not become effective unless it is approved by an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature. The requirements of this section apply to any act that provides for a net increase in state revenues in the form of: The imposition of any new tax. An increase in a tax rate or rates. A reduction or elimination of a tax deduction, exemption, exclusion, credit or other tax exemption feature in computing tax liability. An increase in a statutorily prescribed state fee or assessment or an increase in a statutorily prescribed maximum limit for an administratively set fee. The imposition of any new state fee or assessment or the authorization of any new administratively set fee. The elimination of an exemption from a statutorily prescribed state fee or assessment. A change in the allocation among the state, counties or cities of Arizona transaction privilege, severance, jet fuel and use, rental occupancy, or other taxes. Any combination of the elements described in paragraphs 1 through 7 This section does not apply to: The effects of inflation, increasing assessed valuation or any other similar effect that increases state revenue but is not caused by an affirmative act of the legislature. Fees and assessments that are authorized by statute, but are not prescribed by formula, amount or limit, and are set by a state officer or agency. Taxes, fees or assessments that are imposed by counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions of this state Each act to which this section applies shall include a separate provision describing the requirements for enactment prescribed by this section. Expenditures required by initiative or referendum; funding source
Az. Const. art. XI, § 2 — Article XI / Section 2
AZ Const., Article XI, Section 2
Status: in_force

The general conduct and supervision of the public school system shall be vested in a state board of education, a state superintendent of public instruction, county school superintendents, and such governing boards for the state institutions as may be provided by law. State board of education; composition; powers and duties; compensation
Az. Const. art. II, § 10 — Article II / Section 10
AZ Const., Article II, Section 10
Status: in_force

No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself, or be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. Administration of justice
Az. Const. art. XIII, § 1 — Article XIII / Section 1
AZ Const., Article XIII, Section 1
Status: in_force

Municipal corporations shall not be created by special laws, but the legislature, by general laws, shall provide for the incorporation and organization of cities and towns and for the classification of such cities and towns in proportion to population, subject to the provisions of this article. Charter; preparation and proposal by board of freeholders; ratification and approval; amendment
Az. Const. art. XX, § 11 — Article XX / Section 11
AZ Const., Article XX, Section 11
Status: in_force

[Repealed] Lands granted to state
Az. Const. art. VI, § 39 — Article VI / Section 39
AZ Const., Article VI, Section 39
Status: in_force

On attaining the age of seventy years a justice or judge of a court of record shall retire and his judicial office shall be vacant, except as otherwise provided in section 35 of this article. In addition to becoming vacant as provided in this section, the office of a justice or judge of any court of record becomes vacant upon his death or his voluntary retirement pursuant to statute or his voluntary resignation, and also, as provided in section 38 of this article, upon the expiration of his term next following a general election at which a majority of those voting on the question of his retention vote in the negative or for which general election he is required, but fails, to file a declaration of his desire to be retained in office. This section is alternative to and cumulative with the methods of removal of judges and justices provided in parts 1 and 2 of article 8 and article 6.1 of this Constitution. Option for counties with less than two hundred fifty thousand persons
Az. Const. art. VII, § 12 — Article VII / Section 12
AZ Const., Article VII, Section 12
Status: in_force

There shall be enacted registration and other laws to secure the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. Submission of questions upon bond issues or special assessments