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Ky. Const. art. I, § 14 — Article I / Section 14
Ky. Const. § 14
Status: in_force

Section 14   Right of judicial remedy for injury -- Speedy trial. 
 
All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, 
goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice 
administered without sale, denial or delay. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 150 — Article I / Section 150
Ky. Const. § 150
Status: in_force

Section 150   Disqualification from office for using money or property to secure or 
influence election -- Corporation not to use money or other thing of value to 
influence election -- Exclusion from office for conviction of felony or high 
misdemeanor -- Laws to regulate elections. 
 
Every person shall be disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit for the 
term for which he shall have been elected who shall be convicted of having given, or 
consented to the giving, offer or promise of any money or other thing of value, to procure 
his election, or to influence the vote of any voter at such election; and if any corporation 
shall, directly or indirectly, offer, promise or give, or shall authorize, directly or 
indirectly, any person to offer, promise or give any money or any thing of value to 
influence the result of any election in this State, or the vote of any voter authorized to 
vote therein, or who shall afterward reimburse or compensate, in any manner whatever, 
any person who shall have offered, promised or given any money or other thing of value 
to influence the result of any election or the vote of any such voter, such corporation, if 
organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit its 
charter and all rights, privileges and immunities thereunder; and if chartered by another 
State and doing business in this State, whether by license, or upon mere sufferance, such 
corporation, upon conviction of either of the offenses aforesaid, shall forfeit all right to 
carry on any business in this State; and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to 
provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this section. All persons shall be 
excluded from office who have been, or shall hereafter be, convicted of a felony, or of 
such high misdemeanor as may be prescribed by law, but such disability may be removed 
by pardon of the Governor. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws 
regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence 
thereon, from power, bribery, tumult or other improper practices. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 69 — Article I / Section 69
Ky. Const. § 69
Status: in_force

Section 69   Executive power vested in Governor. 
 
The supreme executive power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Chief 
Magistrate, who shall be styled the "Governor 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, § 246 — Article I / Section 246
Ky. Const. § 246
Status: in_force

Section 246   Maximum limit on compensation of public officers. 
 
No public officer or employee except the Governor, shall receive as compensation 
per annum for official services, exclusive of the compensation of legally authorized 
deputies and assistants which shall be fixed and provided for by law, but inclusive of 
allowance for living expenses, if any, as may be fixed and provided for by law, any 
amount in excess of the following sums: Officers whose jurisdiction or duties are 
coextensive with the Commonwealth, the mayor of any city of the first class, and Judges 
and Commissioners of the Court of Appeals, Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000); Circuit 
Judges, Eight Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($8,400); all other public officers, Seven 
Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($7,200). Compensation within the limits of this 
amendment may be authorized by the General Assembly to be paid, but not retroactively, 
to public officers in office at the time of its adoption, or who are elected at the election at 
which this amendment is adopted. Nothing in this amendment shall permit any officer to 
receive, for the year 1949, any compensation in excess of the limit in force prior to the 
adoption of this amendment. 
Text as Ratified on: November 8, 1949. 
History: 1949 amendment was proposed by 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 1; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 134 — Article I / Section 134
Ky. Const. § 134
Status: in_force

Section 134   (Repealed 1975) 
 
Catchline read at time of repeal:  "When districts may be changed." 
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, § 159 — Article I / Section 159
Ky. Const. § 159
Status: in_force

Section 159   Tax to pay indebtedness in not more than forty years must be levied. 
 
Whenever any city, town, county, taxing district or other municipality is authorized 
to contract an indebtedness, it shall be required, at the same time, to provide for the 
collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on said indebtedness, and to 
create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof, within not more than forty 
years from the time of contracting the same. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 147 — Article I / Section 147
Ky. Const. § 147
Status: in_force

Section 147   Registration of voters -- Manner of voting -- Absent voting -- Voting 
machines -- "Election" defined -- Election laws -- Illiterate and disabled voters. 
 
The General Assembly shall provide by law for the registration of all persons 
entitled to vote in cities and towns having a population of five thousand or more; and may 
provide by general law for the registration of other voters in the state. Where registration 
is required, only persons registered shall have the right to vote. The mode of registration 
shall be prescribed by the General Assembly. In all elections by persons in a 
representative capacity, the voting shall be viva voce and made a matter of record; but all 
elections by the people shall be by secret official ballot, furnished by public authority to 
the voters at the polls, and marked by each voter in private at the polls, and then and there 
deposited, or any person absent from the county of his legal residence, or from the state, 
may be permitted to vote in a manner provided by law. Counties so desiring may use 
voting machines, these machines to be installed at the expense of such counties. The word 
"elections" in this section includes the decision of questions submitted to the voters, as 
well as the choice of officers by them. The General Assembly shall pass all necessary 
laws to enforce this section, and shall provide that persons illiterate, blind, or in any way 
disabled may have their ballots marked or voted as herein required. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 6, 1945. 
History:  1945 amendment was proposed by 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 1; 1941 
amendment was proposed by 1940 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 1, and ratified on November 
4, 1941; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 95 — Article I / Section 95
Ky. Const. § 95
Status: in_force

Section 95   Time of election of elected Constitutional State officers. 
 
The election under this Constitution for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, 
Auditor of Public Accounts, Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Commissioner of 
Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday 
in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the same day every four years 
thereafter. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 3, 1992. 
History:  1992 amendment was proposed by 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 13; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 218 — Article I / Section 218
Ky. Const. § 218
Status: in_force

Section 218   Long and short hauls. 
 
It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation, owning or operating a railroad in 
this State, or any common carrier, to charge or receive any greater compensation in the 
aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of property of like kind, under 
substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance 
over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer 
distance; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier, or person or 
corporation, owning or operating a railroad in this State, to receive as great compensation 
for a shorter as for a longer distance: Provided, That upon application to the state agency 
as may have jurisdiction over such matters, such common carrier, or person or 
corporation owning or operating a railroad in this State, may in special cases, after 
investigation by the appropriate state agency, be authorized to charge less for longer than 
for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers, or property; and the appropriate 
state agency may, from time to time, prescribe the extent to which such common carrier, 
or person or corporation, owning or operating a railroad in this State, may be relieved 
from the operation of this section. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 7, 2000. 
History:  2000 amendment was proposed by 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 399, sec. 2; original 
ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 81 — Article I / Section 81
Ky. Const. § 81
Status: in_force

Section 81   Governor to enforce laws. 
 
He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 8 — Article I / Section 8
Ky. Const. § 8
Status: in_force

Section 8   Freedom of speech and of the press. 
 
Printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the 
proceedings of the General Assembly or any branch of government, and no law shall ever 
be made to restrain the right thereof. Every person may freely and fully speak, write and 
print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 67 — Article I / Section 67
Ky. Const. § 67
Status: in_force

Section 67   Trial of impeachments by Senate. 
 
All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting for that purpose, the 
Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation. No person shall be convicted without the 
concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 178 — Article I / Section 178
Ky. Const. § 178
Status: in_force

Section 178   Law for borrowing money to specify purpose, for which alone money 
may be used. 
 
All laws authorizing the borrowing of money by and on behalf of the 
Commonwealth, county or other political subdivision of the State, shall specify the 
purpose for which the money is to be used, and the money so borrowed shall be used for 
no other purpose. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 129 — Article I / Section 129
Ky. Const. § 129
Status: in_force

Section 129   (Repealed 1975) 
 
Catchline read at time of repeal:  "Election of Circuit Judges -- Term -- 
Commissions -- Removal." 
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, § 24 — Article I / Section 24
Ky. Const. § 24
Status: in_force

Section 24   Emigration to be free. 
 
Emigration from the State shall not be prohibited. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 13 — Article I / Section 13
Ky. Const. § 13
Status: in_force

Section 13   Double jeopardy -- Property not to be taken for public use without 
compensation. 
 
No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of his life or limb, 
nor shall any man's property be taken or applied to public use without the consent of his 
representatives, and without just compensation being previously made to him. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 61 — Article I / Section 61
Ky. Const. § 61
Status: in_force

Section 61   Provision to be made for local option on sale of liquor -- Time of 
elections. 
 
The General Assembly shall, by general law, provide a means whereby the sense of 
the people of any county, city, town, district or precinct may be taken, as to whether or 
not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold, bartered or loaned therein, or the sale 
thereof regulated. But nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with or to repeal any 
law in force relating to the sale or gift of such liquors. All elections on this question may 
be held on a day other than the regular election days. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 5, 1935. 
History:  1935 reenactment was proposed by 1934 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 1; repeal (by 
implication) was proposed by 1918 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 1, and ratified on November 
4, 1919, effective July 1, 1920; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised 
September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 103 — Article I / Section 103
Ky. Const. § 103
Status: in_force

Section 103   Bonds of county officers and other officers. 
 
The Judges of County Courts, Clerks, Sheriffs, Surveyors, Coroners, Jailers, 
Constables, and such other officers as the General Assembly may, from time to time, 
require, shall before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, and as often 
thereafter as may be deemed proper, give such bond and security as may be prescribed by 
law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 154 — Article I / Section 154
Ky. Const. § 154
Status: in_force

Section 154   Laws as to sale or gift of liquor on election days. 
 
The General Assembly shall prescribe such laws as may be necessary for the 
restriction or prohibition of the sale or gift of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors on 
election days. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 179 — Article I / Section 179
Ky. Const. § 179
Status: in_force

Section 179   Political subdivision not to become stockholder in corporation, or 
appropriate money or lend credit to any person, except for roads or State 
Capitol. 
 
The General Assembly shall not authorize any county or subdivision thereof, city, 
town or incorporated district, to become a stockholder in any company, association or 
corporation, or to obtain or appropriate money for, or to loan its credit to, any 
corporation, association or individual, except for the purpose of constructing or 
maintaining bridges, turnpike roads, or gravel roads: Provided, If any municipal 
corporation shall offer to the Commonwealth any property or money for locating or 
building a Capitol, and the Commonwealth accepts such offer, the corporation may 
comply with the offer. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 31 — Article I / Section 31
Ky. Const. § 31
Status: in_force

Section 31   Time of election and term of office of Senators and Representatives. 
 
At the general election to be held in November, 1984, and every two years 
thereafter, there shall be elected for four years one Senator in each Senatorial District in 
which the term of his predecessor in office will then expire and in every Representative 
District one Representative for two years. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 6, 1979. 
History:  1979 amendment was proposed by 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 440, sec. 1; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 17 — Article I / Section 17
Ky. Const. § 17
Status: in_force

Section 17   Excessive bail or fine, or cruel punishment, prohibited. 
 
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel 
punishment inflicted. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 66 — Article I / Section 66
Ky. Const. § 66
Status: in_force

Section 66   Power of impeachment vested in House. 
 
The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 157 — Article I / Section 157
Ky. Const. § 157
Status: in_force

Section 157   Maximum tax rate for cities, counties, and taxing districts. 
 
The tax rate of cities, counties, and taxing districts, for other than school purposes, 
shall not, at any time, exceed the following rates upon the value of the taxable property 
therein: For all cities having a population of fifteen thousand or more, one dollar and fifty 
cents on the hundred dollars; for all cities having less than fifteen thousand and not less 
than ten thousand, one dollar on the hundred dollars; for all cities having less than ten 
thousand, seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars; and for counties and taxing districts, 
fifty cents on the hundred dollars. 
Text as Ratified on:  November 8, 1994. 
History:  1994 amendment was proposed by 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 2; original 
version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 108 — Article I / Section 108
Ky. Const. § 108
Status: in_force

Section 108   Abolishment of office of Commonwealth's Attorney. 
 
The General Assembly may, at any time after the expiration of six years from the 
adoption of this Constitution, abolish the office of Commonwealth's Attorney, to take 
effect upon the expiration of the term of the incumbents, in which event the duties of said 
office shall be discharged by the County Attorneys. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 38 — Article I / Section 38
Ky. Const. § 38
Status: in_force

Section 38   Each House to judge qualifications, elections, and returns of its 
members -- Contests. 
 
Each House of the General Assembly shall judge of the qualifications, elections and 
returns of its members, but a contested election shall be determined in such manner as 
shall be directed by law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 224 — Article I / Section 224
Ky. Const. § 224
Status: in_force

Section 224   Bonds -- What officers to give -- Liability on. 
 
The General Assembly shall provide by a general law what officers shall execute 
bond for the faithful discharge of their duties, and fix the liability therein. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 136 — Article I / Section 136
Ky. Const. § 136
Status: in_force

Section 136   (Repealed 1975) 
 
Catchline read at time of repeal:  "Special Judges of Circuit Courts." 
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, § 18 — Article I / Section 18
Ky. Const. § 18
Status: in_force

Section 18   Imprisonment for debt restricted. 
 
The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be 
continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such 
manner as shall be prescribed by law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 32 — Article I / Section 32
Ky. Const. § 32
Status: in_force

Section 32   Qualifications of Senators and Representatives. 
 
No person shall be a Representative who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen 
of Kentucky, has not attained the age of twenty-four years, and who has not resided in this 
State two years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof in the county, town 
or city for which he may be chosen. No person shall be a Senator who, at the time of his 
election, is not a citizen of Kentucky, has not attained the age of thirty years, and has not 
resided in this State six years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof in the 
district for which he may be chosen. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 146 — Article I / Section 146
Ky. Const. § 146
Status: in_force

Section 146   Soldiers or sailors stationed in State are not residents. 
 
No person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be 
deemed a resident of this State by reason of being stationed within the same. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 37 — Article I / Section 37
Ky. Const. § 37
Status: in_force

Section 37   Majority constitutes quorum -- Powers of less than a quorum. 
 
Not less than a majority of the members of each House of the General Assembly 
shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to 
day, and shall be authorized by law to compel the attendance of absent members in such 
manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by law. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.
Ky. Const. art. I, § 88 — Article I / Section 88
Ky. Const. § 88
Status: in_force

Section 88   Signature of bills by Governor -- Veto -- Passage over veto -- Partial 
veto. 
 
Every bill which shall have passed the two Houses shall be presented to the 
Governor. If he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, 
to the House in which it originated, which shall enter the objections in full upon its 
journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of all the 
members elected to that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the 
objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be considered, and if approved 
by a majority of all the members elected to that House, it shall be a law; but in such case 
the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the 
members voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each House 
respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays 
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be a law in like manner as if he 
had signed it, unless the General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in 
which case it shall be a law, unless disapproved by him within ten days after the 
adjournment, in which case his veto message shall be spread upon the register kept by the 
Secretary of State. The Governor shall have the power to disapprove any part or parts of 
appropriation bills embracing distinct items, and the part or parts disapproved shall not 
become a law unless reconsidered and passed, as in case of a bill. 
Text as Ratified on:  August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. 
History:  Not yet amended.