The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-06-18
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gated remain with the people.
ARTICLE II.
Legislative.
SECTION l. The legislative powe
shall be vested IN a general assembly
which shall consist of a senate an'
house of representatives
SEC. q Senators and representa-
tives shall be elected biennially b.
the electors in the respective conn
ties or distIicts, on the Tuesday sue
ceeding the first Monday in Novem
Der; their terms of office shall com
mence on the first day Of Januar,
next thereafter, and continue tw'
; years.
SEC. 3. Senators and representa-
tives shall have resided in their re
spective counties or districts one yea
next preceding their election, ant
: shall continue to reside therein du
ring their terms Of service.
SEC. 4. No person holding Offic
under the authority of the United
States, or any lucrative Office unde
the authority of this state, shall b
eligible to, or have a seat in, the gen
eral assembly; but this provision
shall not extend to township officers
justices of the peace, notaries public
or officers Of the militia; nor shall an!
person interested in a contract with
or unadjusted claim against the STATE
hold a seat in the general assembly
SEC. 5. No person convicted o
embeZZlement of the public fund:
shall hold Office in this state; mol
shall any person holding public mon
ey have q seat in tine general assem-
. bly,, until he shall have accounted fol
such money and paid it into the treas
ury.
SEC. 6. Each house shall be judge
Of the election returns and qualifica
tions of its members; a majority o
the members elected to each housl
shall be a quorum to do business, bu
less number may adjourn from day
to day, and compel the attendance OF
absent members, in such manner and
under such penalties as shall be pre-
scribed by law.
SEC. Z. The mode of organizing
the house of representatives at the
commencement of each regular ses.
sion, shall be prescribed by law.
SEC. s. Each house, except as 9TH
erwise provided in this constitution
shall choose its officers; may deter
mine its rules of proceeding; punish
its members for disorderly conduct,
and, with the concurrence of two
thirds Of the members elected thereto
expel q member, but not a second
time for the same cause; and shall
have other powers necessary to pro-
vide for its safety and the undis.
turbed transaction of its business.
SEC. 8. Each house shall keep 9
journal of its proceedings, which shal
be published, and on which, at the
request Of two members, the yeas anC
nays shall be entered. On the passage
of every bill or joint resolution, il
each house, the vote shall be takeI
by yeas and nays, and entered on the
joOSnal. No bill or joint resolution
except joint resolutions relating tC
the course of business in the general
assembly, shall be passed in either
house, without the concurrence of s
majority of the members elected there
to.
SEC. 10. Any member of either
house shall have the right to protest
against any act or resolution thereof
and such protest, and the reasons
therefor, shall, on being presented tC
! such house, be entered on the journal
by the clerk, without alteration, com.
mitment or delay.
SEC. IL. All vacancies in either
house shall, for the unexpired term,
be filled by election, as shall be direct.
ed by law.
Sec. u. Senators and representa-.
tives, during the session of the general
assembly, and in going to and return
ing from the same, shall be privileged
from arrest in all cases, except treason,
| felony or breach of the peace and fol
any speech or debate, in either house,
shall not be questioned elsewhere.
SEC. Is. The proceedings of both
houses shall be public, except in cases
which, in the opinion of two-thirds OF
the members present, require secrecy.
SEC. IA. Neither house shall, with
out the consent of the other, adiourn
for more than two days, SUNDAYS ex-
cluded. nor TO anv other nlaee than
that IN which the two houses shall be
in session.
SEC. Is. No law shall be passed,
except by bill. Bills may originate in
either house, but mGy be altered,
amended or rejected in the other.
SEC. 16. Every bill shall be fully
and distinctly read on three different
days, unless, in case of urgency, three
! fourths of the memb bers elected to the
house in which it shall be pending,
by vote by yeas and nays, entered
on the journal, dispense with this
rule but the reading of bill on its
| final passage shall in no case be dis
pensed with. No bill shall contain
more than one subject, which shall be
clearly expressed in its title I; and nc
/ law shall be revived or amended, un-
less the new act contain the entire act
revived, or the section or sections
amended +; and the section or sections
so amended shall be repealed.
Sac. II. The presiding officer OF
each house shall sign, publicly, in the
presence of the house over which he
presides, while the same is in session,
and capable of transacting business,
all bills and joint resolutions passed
by the general assembly.
SEC. Is. Every bill passed by the
general assembly shall be presented to
the governor. If approved, he shall
sign it, and thereupon il shall become
law. If not approved, he shall send
| il, with his objections in writing, to
the house where it originated, which
may then reconsider the vote on the
passage of the same. If three-fifths
of the members elected to that house
then agree to repass the bill, it shall
be sent, with the objections of the
governor, TO the other house, which
may also reconsider the vote on its
passage. IF three-fifths of the men,
bers elected to that house then agree
to repass the same, it shall become a
law but the vote necessary to repass
such bill, in each house, shall not be
less than that required on the original
| passage. The vote in each house shall
he by yeas and nays, entered on the
| journal thereof. If q bill shall not be re-
turned by the governor within ten
days, Sundays excepted, after being
presented to him, it shall become a law,
unless the general assembly by ad-
journment prevent its return; in which
case it shall be filed by him with his OBJ
jections in the Office of the secretary
of state, within ten days after such
adjournment, or become a law. The
governor may disapprove any item or
items OF appropriation contained IN
bills passed by the general assembly,
and the item or items so disapproved
shall be stricken therefrom, unless re-
passed in the manner herein prescrib-
ed in cases Of disapprovaI of bills.
Every order or resolution, in which
the concurrence of both branches OF
the general assembly may be neces-
sary, except on questions of adjourn
ment, or pertaining to the transaction
of business by the houses, shall be pre-
sented to the governor, and, before
the same shall take effect, be approx
ed by him, or, being disapproved,
shall be repassed in the manner here
in prescribed for the repassage of bills.
Sec. IS. The style of the laws OF
this state shall be, "Be 1t enacted 6y
the General Assembly of the State OF
| Ohio"
SEC. %. No senator or representa-
tive shall, during the term for which
be shall have been elected, or for one
year thereafter, be appointed to any
civil office under the laws of this state,
which shall be created or the emolu-
ments of which shall be increased
during such term.
SEC. q. The general assembly