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Ky. Const. art. I, § 197 — Article I / Section 197
Ky. Const. § 197
Status: in_force

Section 197   Free passes or reduced rates to officers forbidden. 
 
No railroad, steamboat or other common carrier, under heavy penalty to be fixed by 
the General Assembly, shall give a free pass or passes, or shall, at reduced rates not 
common to the public, sell tickets for transportation to any State, district, city, town or 
county officer, or member of the General Assembly, or Judge; and any State, district, city, 
town or county officer, or member of the General Assembly, or Judge, who shall accept 
or use a free pass or passes, or shall receive or use tickets or transportation at reduced 
rates not common to the public, shall forfeit his office. It shall be the duty of the General 
Assembly to enact laws to enforce the provisions of this section. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 145 — Article I / Section 145
Ky. Const. § 145
Status: in_force

Section 145   Persons entitled to vote. 
 
Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in 
the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he or she 
offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and 
not elsewhere. No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to 
vote in this state. The following persons also shall not have the right to vote: 
 
1. 
Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, 
or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may 
declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby 
excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon. 
 
2. 
Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the 
judgment of a court for some penal offense. 
 
3. 
Idiots and insane persons. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 5, 2024. 
History:  2024 amendment was proposed by 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 7, sec. 2; 1955 
amendment was proposed by 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 1; original version ratified 
August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 223 — Article I / Section 223
Ky. Const. § 223
Status: in_force

Section 223   Safekeeping of public arms, military records, relics, and banners. 
 
The General Assembly shall provide for the safekeeping of the public arms, military 
records, relics and banners of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 233 — Article I / Section 233
Ky. Const. § 233
Status: in_force

Section 233   General laws of Virginia in force in this State until repealed. 
 
All laws which, on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-
two, were in force in the State of Virginia, and which are of a general nature and not local 
to that State, and not repugnant to this Constitution, nor to the laws which have been 
enacted by the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, shall be in force within this 
State until they shall be altered or repealed by the General Assembly. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 202 — Article I / Section 202
Ky. Const. § 202
Status: in_force

Section 202   (Repealed 2002) 
 
Catchline at time of repeal:  "Foreign corporations not to be given privileges over 
domestic." 
Repeal Ratified on:  November 5, 2002 
History:  Repeal was proposed by 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 341, sec. 2; original version ratified 
August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 97 — Article I / Section 97
Ky. Const. § 97
Status: in_force

Section 97   Commonwealth's Attorney and Circuit Court Clerk -- Election -- Term. 
 
In the year two thousand, and every six years thereafter, there shall be an election in 
each county for a Circuit Court Clerk, and for a Commonwealth's Attorney, in each 
circuit court district, unless that office be abolished, who shall hold their respective 
offices for six years from the first Monday in January after their election, and until the 
election and qualification of their successors. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 3, 1992. 
History:  1992 amendment was proposed by 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 14; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 54 — Article I / Section 54
Ky. Const. § 54
Status: in_force

Section 54   No restriction on recovery for injury or death. 
 
The General Assembly shall have no power to limit the amount to be recovered for 
injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to person or property. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 118 — Article I / Section 118
Ky. Const. § 118
Status: in_force

Section 118   Vacancies. 
 
(1)  A vacancy in the office of a justice of the Supreme Court, or of a judge of the 
Court of Appeals, circuit or district court which under Section 152 of this Constitution is 
to be filled by appointment by the Governor shall be filled by the Governor from a list of 
three names presented to him by the appropriate judicial nominating commission. If the 
Governor fails to make an appointment from the list within sixty days from the date it is 
presented to him, the appointment shall be made from the same list by the chief justice of 
the Supreme Court. 
 
(2)  There shall be one judicial nominating commission for the Supreme Court and 
the Court of Appeals, one for each judicial circuit, and one for each judicial district, 
except that a circuit and district having the same boundary shall have but one judicial 
nominating commission. Each commission shall consist of seven members, one of whom 
shall be the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who shall be chairman. Two members of 
each commission shall be members of the bar, who shall be elected by their fellow 
members. The other four members shall be appointed by the Governor from among 
persons not members of the bar, and these four shall include at least two members of each 
of the two political parties of the Commonwealth having the largest number of voters. 
Members of a judicial circuit or judicial district nominating commission must be 
residents of the circuit or district, respectively, and the lawyer members of the 
commission shall be elected by the members of the bar residing in the circuit or district, 
respectively. The terms of office of members of judicial nominating commissions shall be 
fixed by the General Assembly. No person shall be elected or appointed a member of a 
judicial nominating commission who holds any other public office or any office in a 
political party or organization. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 4, 1975, effective January 1, 1976. 
History:  Repeal and reenactment proposed by 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 122 — Article I / Section 122
Ky. Const. § 122
Status: in_force

Section 122   Eligibility. 
 
To be eligible to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Court of 
Appeals, Circuit Court or District Court a person must be a citizen of the United States, 
licensed to practice law in the courts of this Commonwealth, and have been a resident of 
this Commonwealth and of the district from which he is elected for two years next 
preceding his taking office. In addition, to be eligible to serve as a justice of the Supreme 
Court or judge of the Court of Appeals or Circuit Court a person must have been a 
licensed attorney for at least eight years. No district judge shall serve who has not been a 
licensed attorney for at least two years. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 4, 1975, effective January 1, 1976. 
History:  Repeal and reenactment proposed by 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 23 — Article I / Section 23
Ky. Const. § 23
Status: in_force

Section 23   No office of nobility or hereditary distinction, or for longer than a term 
of years. 
 
The General Assembly shall not grant any title of nobility or hereditary distinction, 
nor create any office the appointment of which shall be for a longer time than a term of 
years. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 195 — Article I / Section 195
Ky. Const. § 195
Status: in_force

Section 195   Corporation property subject to eminent domain; corporations not to 
infringe upon individuals. 
 
The Commonwealth, in the exercise of the right of eminent domain, shall have and 
retain the same powers to take the property and franchises of incorporated companies for 
public use which it has and retains to take the property of individuals, and the exercise of 
the police powers of this Commonwealth shall never be abridged nor so construed as to 
permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe upon the equal 
rights of individuals. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 227 — Article I / Section 227
Ky. Const. § 227
Status: in_force

Section 227   Prosecution and removal of local officers for misfeasance, malfeasance, 
or neglect. 
 
Judges of the County Court, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, Surveyors, 
Jailers, Assessors, County Attorneys and Constables shall be subject to indictment or 
prosecution for misfeasance or malfeasance in office, or willful neglect in discharge of 
official duties, in such mode as may be prescribed by law, and upon conviction his office 
shall become vacant, but such officer shall have the right to appeal to the Court of 
Appeals. Provided, also, that the General Assembly may, in addition to the indictment or 
prosecution above provided, by general law, provide other manner, method or mode for 
the vacation of office, or the removal from office of any sheriff, jailer, constable or peace 
officer for neglect of duty, and may provide the method, manner or mode of reinstatement 
of such officers. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 4, 1919. 
History:  1919 amendment was proposed by 1918 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 1; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 247 — Article I / Section 247
Ky. Const. § 247
Status: in_force

Section 247   Public printing -- Contract for -- Officers not to have interest in -- 
Governor to approve. 
 
The printing and binding of the laws, journals, department reports, and all other 
public printing and binding, shall be performed under contract, to be given to the lowest 
responsible bidder, below such maximum and under such regulations as may be 
prescribed by law. No member of the General Assembly, or officer of the 
Commonwealth, shall be in any way interested in any such contract; and all such 
contracts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 22 — Article I / Section 22
Ky. Const. § 22
Status: in_force

Section 22   Standing armies restricted -- Military subordinate to civil -- Quartering 
soldiers restricted. 
 
No standing army shall, in time of peace, be maintained without the consent of the 
General Assembly; and the military shall, in all cases and at all times, be in strict 
subordination to the civil power; nor shall any soldier, in time of peace, be quartered in 
any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, except in a manner 
prescribed by law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 35 — Article I / Section 35
Ky. Const. § 35
Status: in_force

Section 35   Number of Senators and Representatives. 
 
The number of Representatives shall be one hundred, and the number of Senators 
thirty-eight. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 100 — Article I / Section 100
Ky. Const. § 100
Status: in_force

Section 100   Qualifications of officers for counties and districts. 
 
No person shall be eligible to the offices mentioned in Sections 97 and 99 who is 
not at the time of his election twenty-four years of age (except Clerks of County and 
Circuit Courts, who shall be twenty-one years of age), a citizen of Kentucky, and who has 
not resided in the State two years, and one year next preceding his election in the county 
and district in which he is a candidate. No person shall be eligible to the office of 
Commonwealth's Attorney unless he shall have been a licensed practicing lawyer four 
years. No person shall be eligible to the office of County Attorney unless he shall have 
been a licensed practicing lawyer two years. No person shall be eligible to the office of 
Clerk unless he shall have procured from a Judge of the Court of Appeals, or a Judge of a 
Circuit Court, a certificate that he has been examined by the Clerk of his Court under his 
supervision, and that he is qualified for the office for which he is a candidate. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 130 — Article I / Section 130
Ky. Const. § 130
Status: in_force

Section 130   (Repealed 1975) 
 
Catchline read at time of repeal:  "Qualifications of Circuit Judges." 
Repeal Ratified on:  November 4, 1975, effective January 1, 1976. 
History:  Repeal was proposed by 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1; original version ratified 
August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 234 — Article I / Section 234
Ky. Const. § 234
Status: in_force

Section 234   Residence and place of office of public officers. 
 
All civil officers for the State at large shall reside within the State, and all district, 
county, city or town officers shall reside within their respective districts, counties, cities 
or towns, and shall keep their offices at such places therein as may be required by law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.