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Id. Const. art. V, § 14 — Article V / Section 14
ID Const., Article V, Section 14
Status: in_force

SPECIAL COURTS IN CITIES AND TOWNS. The legislature may provide for the establishment of special courts for the trial of misdemeanors in incorporated cities and towns, where the same may be necessary.
Id. Const. art. V, § 22 — Article V / Section 22
ID Const., Article V, Section 22
Status: in_force

JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Repealed General Election November 6, 1962, HJR No. 10, Session 1961. ​
Id. Const. art. VI, § 4 — Article VI / Section 4
ID Const., Article VI, Section 4
Status: in_force

LEGISLATURE MAY PRESCRIBE ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS. The legislature may prescribe qualifications, limitations, and conditions for the right of suffrage, additional to those prescribe [prescribed] in this article, but shall never annul any of the provisions in this article contained. ​
Id. Const. art. III, § 5 — Article III / Section 5
ID Const., Article III, Section 5
Status: in_force

SENATORIAL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. A senatorial or representative district, when more than one county shall constitute the same, shall be composed of contiguous counties, and a county may be divided in creating districts only to the extent it is reasonably determined by statute that counties must be divided to create senatorial and representative districts which comply with the constitution of the United States. A county may be divided into more than one legislative district when districts are wholly contained within a single county. No floterial district shall be created. Multi-member districts may be created in any district composed of more than one county only to the extent that two representatives may be elected from a district from which one senator is elected. The provisions of this section shall apply to any apportionment adopted following the 1990 decennial census.
Id. Const. art. IX, § 11 — Article IX / Section 11
ID Const., Article IX, Section 11
Status: in_force

INVESTING PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUNDS. The permanent endowment funds other than funds arising from the disposition of university lands belonging to the state, may be invested in United States, state, county, city, village, or school district bonds or state warrants or other investments in which a trustee is authorized to invest pursuant to state law. ​
Id. Const. art. V, § 23 — Article V / Section 23
ID Const., Article V, Section 23
Status: in_force

QUALIFICATIONS OF DISTRICT JUDGES. No person shall be eligible to the office of district judge unless he be learned in the law, thirty (30) years of age, and a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in the state or territory at least two (2) years next preceding his election, nor unless he shall have been at the time of his election, an elector in the judicial district for which he is elected.
Id. Const. art. XIV, § 5 — Article XIV / Section 5
ID Const., Article XIV, Section 5
Status: in_force

NATIONAL AND STATE FLAGS ONLY TO BE CARRIED. All military organizations under the laws of this state shall carry no other device, banner or flag, than that of the United States or the state of Idaho.
Id. Const. art. VII, § 9 — Article VII / Section 9
ID Const., Article VII, Section 9
Status: in_force

MAXIMUM RATE OF TAXATION. The rate of taxation of real and personal property for state purposes shall never exceed ten (10) mills on each dollar of assessed valuation, unless a proposition to increase such rate, specifying the rate proposed and the time during which the same shall be levied, shall have been submitted to the people at a general election, and shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election.
Id. Const. art. XIII, § 5 — Article XIII / Section 5
ID Const., Article XIII, Section 5
Status: in_force

ALIENS NOT TO BE EMPLOYED ON PUBLIC WORK. No person, not a citizen of the United States, or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed upon, or in connection with, any state or municipal works.
Id. Const. art. VII, § 16 — Article VII / Section 16
ID Const., Article VII, Section 16
Status: in_force

LEGISLATURE TO PASS NECESSARY LAWS. The legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
Id. Const. art. IV, § 6 — Article IV / Section 6
ID Const., Article IV, Section 6
Status: in_force

GOVERNOR TO APPOINT OFFICERS. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint all officers whose offices are established by this constitution, or which may be created by law, and whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for. If during the recess of the senate, a vacancy occurs in any state or district office, the governor shall appoint some fit person to discharge the duties thereof until the next meeting of the senate, when he shall nominate some person to fill such office. If the office of a justice of the supreme or district court, secretary of state, state controller, state treasurer, attorney general, or superintendent of public instruction shall be vacated by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the governor to fill the same by appointment, as provided by law, and the appointee shall hold his office until his successor shall be selected and qualified in such manner as may be provided by law.
Id. Const. art. XXI, § 20 — Article XXI / Section 20
ID Const., Article XXI, Section 20
Status: in_force

ADOPTION OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. That in behalf of the people of Idaho, we, in convention assembled, do adopt the Constitution of the United States. SIGNATURES. Done in open convention at Boise City, in the territory of Idaho, this sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. Wm. H. Clagett, President Geo. Ainslie, W.C.B. Allen, Robt. Anderson, H. Armstrong, Orlando B. Batten, Frank W. Beane, Jas. H. Beatty, J.W. Ballentine, A.D. Bevan, Henry B. Blake, Frederick Campbell, Frank P. Cavanah, A.S. Chaney, Chas. A. Clark, I.N. Coston, Jas. I. Crutcher, Stephen S. Glidden, John S. Gray, Wm. W. Hammell, H.S. Hampton, H.O. Harkness, Frank Harris, Sol. Hasbrouck, C.M. Hays, W.B. Heyburn, John Hogan, J.M. Howe, E.S. Jewell, G.W. King, H.B. Kinport, Jas. W. Lamoreaux, John Lewis, Wm. C. Maxey, A.E. Mayhew, W.J. McConnell, Henry Melder, John H. Myer, John T. Morgan, A.B. Moss, Aaron F. Parker, A.J. Pierce, A.J. Pinkham, J.W. Poe, Thos. Pyeatt, Jas. W. Reid, W.D. Robbins Wm. H. Savidge, Aug. M. Sinnott, James M. Shoup, Drew W. Standrod, Frank Steunenberg, Homer Stull, Willis Sweet, Sam F. Taylor, J.L. Underwood, Lycurgus Vineyard, J.S. Whitton, Edgar Wilson, W.W. Woods, John Lemp, N.I. Andrews, Samuel J. Pritchard, J.W. Brigham. This work is in the public domain in the U.S. because it is an edict of a government , local or foreign. See § 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium II: Copyright Office Practices . Such documents include "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials" as well as "any translation prepared by a government employee acting within the course of his or her official duties." These do not include works of the Organization of American States, United Nations, or any of the UN specialized agencies. See Compendium III § 313.6(C)(2) and 17 U.S.C. 104(b)(5). A non-American governmental edict may still be copyrighted outside the U.S. Similar to {{ PD-in-USGov }}, the above U.S. Copyright Office Practice does not prevent U.S. states or localities from holding copyright abroad, depending on foreign copyright laws and regulations. Public domain Public domain false false
Id. Const. art. IV, § 13 — Article IV / Section 13
ID Const., Article IV, Section 13
Status: in_force

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IS PRESIDENT OF SENATE. The lieutenant governor shall be president of the senate, but shall vote only when the senate is equally divided. In case of the absence or disqualification of the lieutenant governor from any cause which applies to the governor, or when he shall hold the office of governor, then the president pro tempore of the senate shall perform the duties of the lieutenant governor until the vacancy is filled or the disability removed. ​
Id. Const. art. I, § 23 — Article I / Section 23
ID Const., Article I, Section 23
Status: in_force

THE RIGHTS TO HUNT, FISH AND TRAP. The rights to hunt, fish and trap, including by the use of traditional methods, are a valued part of the heritage of the State of Idaho and shall forever be preserved for the people and managed through the laws, rules and proclamations that preserve the future of hunting, fishing and trapping. Public hunting, fishing and trapping of wildlife shall be a preferred means of managing wildlife. The rights set forth herein do not create a right to trespass on private property, shall not affect rights to divert, appropriate and use water, or establish any minimum amount of water in any water body, shall not lead to a diminution of other private rights, and shall not prevent the suspension or revocation, pursuant to statute enacted by the Legislature, of an individual’s hunting, fishing or trapping license.
Id. Const. art. XVIII, § 12 — Article XVIII / Section 12
ID Const., Article XVIII, Section 12
Status: in_force

OPTIONAL FORMS OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT. The legislature by general law may provide for optional forms of county government for counties, which shall be the exclusive optional forms of county government. No optional form of county government shall be operative in any county until it has been submitted to and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon in the county affected at a general or special election as provided by law. The electorate at said election shall be allowed to vote on whether they shall retain their present form of county government or adopt any of the optional forms of county government. In the event an optional form shall be adopted, the question whether to return to the original form or any other optional form, may be placed at subsequent elections, but not more frequently than each four years. When an optional form of county government has been adopted, the provisions of this section supersede sections 5, 6 and 10 of this article and sections 16 and 18 of article V.
Id. Const. art. XVIII, § 8 — Article XVIII / Section 8
ID Const., Article XVIII, Section 8
Status: in_force

COUNTY OFFICERS — HOW PAID. The compensation provided in section seven for the officers therein mentioned shall be paid by fees or commissions, or both, as prescribed by law. All fees and commissions received by such officers in excess of the maximum compensation per annum provided for each in section seven of this article shall be paid to the county treasurer for the use and benefit of the county. In case the fees received in any one year by any one of such officers shall not amount to the minimum compensation per annum therein provided, he shall be paid by the county a sum sufficient to make his aggregate annual compensation equal to such minimum compensation. ​
Id. Const. art. X, § 5 — Article X / Section 5
ID Const., Article X, Section 5
Status: in_force

STATE PRISONS — CONTROL OVER. The state legislature shall establish a nonpartisan board to be known as the state board of correction, and to consist of three (3) members appointed by the governor, one (1) member for two (2) years, one (1) member for four (4) years, and one (1) member for six (6) years. After the appointment of the first board the term of each member appointed shall be six (6) years. This board shall have the control, direction and management of the penitentiaries of the state, their employees and properties, and of adult felony probation and parole, with such compensation, powers, and duties as may be prescribed by law.
Id. Const. art. XVI, § 1 — Article XVI / Section 1
ID Const., Article XVI, Section 1
Status: in_force

LAWS TO PROTECT LIVESTOCK. The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to provide for the protection of livestock against the introduction or spread of pleuro pneumonia, glanders, splenetic or Texas fever, and other infectious or contagious diseases. The legislature may also establish a system of quarantine or inspection and such other regulations as may be necessary for the protection of stock owners and most conducive to the stock interests within this state.
Id. Const. art. V, § 19 — Article V / Section 19
ID Const., Article V, Section 19
Status: in_force

VACANCIES — HOW FILLED. All vacancies occurring in the offices provided for by this article of the Constitution shall be filled as provided by law.
Id. Const. art. III, § 19 — Article III / Section 19
ID Const., Article III, Section 19
Status: in_force

LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS PROHIBITED. The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and constables. For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors. Regulating the practice of the courts of justice. Providing for a change of venue in civil or criminal actions. Granting divorces. Changing the names of persons or places. Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, working on, or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plats, parks, cemeteries, or any public grounds not owned by the state. Summoning and impaneling grand and trial juries, and providing for their compensation. Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and ​ township officers. For the assessment and collection of taxes. Providing for and conducting elections, or designating the place of voting. Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities. Extending the time for collection of taxes. Giving effect to invalid deeds, leases or other instruments. Refunding money paid into the state treasury. Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any person or corporation in this state, or any municipal corporation therein. Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease or incumber his or her property. Legalizing as against the state the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer. Exempting property from taxation. Changing county seats, unless the law authorizing the change shall require that two-thirds (2/3) of the legal votes cast at a general or special election shall designate the place to which the county seat shall be changed; provided, that the power to pass a special law shall cease as long as the legislature shall provide for such change by general law; provided further, that no special law shall be passed for any one county oftener than once in six (6) years. Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes. Regulating the interest on money. Authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens. Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges or roads. Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures. Providing for the management of common schools. Creating offices or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, townships, election districts, or school districts, except as in this constitution otherwise provided. Changing the law of descent or succession. Authorizing the adoption or legitimization of children. For limitation of civil or criminal actions. Creating any corporation. Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.
Id. Const. art. V, § 4 — Article V / Section 4
ID Const., Article V, Section 4
Status: in_force

IMPEACHMENTS — WHERE AND HOW TRIED — CONVICTION — IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR. The house of representatives solely shall have the power of impeachment. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds (2/3) of the senators elected. When the governor is impeached, the chief justice shall preside.
Id. Const. art. XXI, § 10 — Article XXI / Section 10
ID Const., Article XXI, Section 10
Status: in_force

CANVASS OF ELECTION RETURNS. The governor, secretary, controller and attorney general of the territory, and the president of this convention, or a majority of them, shall constitute a board of canvassers to canvass the vote at such elections for all state and district officers and members of the legislature. The said board shall assemble at the seat of government of the territory on the thirtieth day after the date of such election (or on the following day if such day fall on Sunday) and proceed to canvass the votes for all state and district officers and members of the legislature, in the manner provided by the laws of the territory for canvassing the vote for delegates to congress, and they shall issue certificates of election to the persons found to be elected to said offices severally, and shall make and file with the secretary of the territory an abstract certified by them, of the number of votes cast for each person for each of said offices and the total number of votes cast in each county.
Id. Const. art. IV, § 11 — Article IV / Section 11
ID Const., Article IV, Section 11
Status: in_force

DISAPPROVAL OF APPROPRIATION BILLS. The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money embracing distinct items, and the part or parts approved shall become a law and the item or items disapproved shall be void, unless enacted in the manner following: If the legislature be in session, he shall within five (5) days transmit to the house within which the bill originated a copy of the item or items thereof disapproved, together with his objections thereto, and the items objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and each item shall then take the same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the executive veto.
Id. Const. art. VI, § 7 — Article VI / Section 7
ID Const., Article VI, Section 7
Status: in_force

NONPARTISAN SELECTION OF SUPREME AND DISTRICT JUDGES. The selection of justices of the Supreme Court and district judges shall be nonpartisan. The legislature shall provide for their nomination and election, but candidates for the offices of justice of the Supreme Court and district judge shall not be nominated nor endorsed by any political party and their names shall not appear on any political party ticket, nor be accompanied on the ballot by any political party designation.
Id. Const. art. XI, § 6 — Article XI / Section 6
ID Const., Article XI, Section 6
Status: in_force

EQUAL TRANSPORTATION RIGHTS GUARANTEED. All individuals, associations, and corporations, similarly situated, shall have equal rights to have persons or property transported on and over any railroad, transportation, or express route in this state, except that preference may be given to perishable property. No undue or unreasonable discrimination shall be made in charges or facilities for transportation of freight or passengers of the same class, by any railroad, or transportation, or express company, between persons or places within this state; but excursion or commutation tickets may be issued and sold at special rates, provided such rates are the same to all persons. No railroad, or transportation, or express company shall be allowed to charge, collect, or receive, under penalties which the legislature shall prescribe, any greater charge or toll for the transportation of freight or passengers, to any place or station upon its route or line, than it charges for the transportation of the same class of freight or passengers to any more distant place or station upon its route or line within this state. No railroad, express, or transportation company, nor any lessee, manager, or other employee thereof, shall give any preference to any individual, association, or corporation, in furnishing cars or motive power, or for the transportation of money or other express matter.
Id. Const. art. XI, § 18 — Article XI / Section 18
ID Const., Article XI, Section 18
Status: in_force

COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE PROHIBITED. That no incorporated company or any association of persons or stock company, in the state of Idaho, shall directly or indirectly combine or make any contract with any other incorporated company, foreign or domestic, through their stockholders or the trustees or assignees of such stockholders, or in any manner whatsoever, for the purpose of fixing the price or regulating the production of any article of commerce or of produce of the soil, or of consumption by the people; and that the legislature be required to pass laws for the enforcement thereof, by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of the forfeiture of their property and franchise.
Id. Const. art. III, § 24 — Article III / Section 24
ID Const., Article III, Section 24
Status: in_force

PROMOTION OF TEMPERANCE AND MORALITY. The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of the home. The legislature should further all wise and well directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality.
Id. Const. art. VI, § 1 — Article VI / Section 1
ID Const., Article VI, Section 1
Status: in_force

SECRET BALLOT GUARANTEED. All elections by the people must be by ballot. An absolutely secret ballot is hereby guaranteed, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to enact such laws as shall carry this section into effect.
Id. Const. art. XIII, § 2 — Article XIII / Section 2
ID Const., Article XIII, Section 2
Status: in_force

PROTECTION AND HOURS OF LABOR. Not more than eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day’s work, on all state and municipal works, and the legislature shall pass laws to provide for the health and safety of the employees in factories, smelters, mines and ore reduction works.
Id. Const. art. XIV, § 3 — Article XIV / Section 3
ID Const., Article XIV, Section 3
Status: in_force

SELECTION AND COMMISSION OF OFFICERS. All militia officers shall be commissioned by the governor, the manner of their selection to be provided by law, and may hold their commissions for such period of time as the legislature may provide.
Id. Const. art. VII, § 8 — Article VII / Section 8
ID Const., Article VII, Section 8
Status: in_force

CORPORATE PROPERTY MUST BE TAXED. The power to tax corporations or corporate property, both real and personal, shall never be relinquished or suspended, and all corporations in this state or doing business therein, ​ shall be subject to taxation for state, county, school, municipal, and other purposes, on real and personal property owned or used by them, and not by this constitution exempted from taxation within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax.
Id. Const. art. I, § 1 — Article I / Section 1
ID Const., Article I, Section 1
Status: in_force

INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF MAN. All men are by nature free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property; pursuing happiness and securing safety.
Id. Const. art. I, § 7 — Article I / Section 7
ID Const., Article I, Section 7
Status: in_force

RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate; but in civil actions, three-fourths of the jury may render a verdict, and the legislature may provide that in all cases of misdemeanors five-sixths of the jury may render a verdict. A trial by jury may be waived in all criminal cases, by the consent of all parties, expressed in open court, and in civil actions by the consent of the parties, signified in such manner as may be prescribed by law. In civil actions the jury may consist of twelve or of any number less than twelve upon which the parties may agree in open court. Provided, that in cases of misdemeanor and in civil actions within the jurisdiction of any court inferior to the district court, whether such case or action be tried in such inferior court or in district court, the jury shall consist of not more than six.
Id. Const. art. VII, § 14 — Article VII / Section 14
ID Const., Article VII, Section 14
Status: in_force

MONEY — HOW DRAWN FROM COUNTY TREASURIES. No money shall be drawn from the county treasuries except upon the warrant of a duly authorized officer, in such manner and form as shall be prescribed by the legislature.