The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-28
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its own officers and employees.
Sec. 1.-THE governor shall issue
writs of election to fill such vacancies
as may occur in either house of the
legislature.
Sec. 1S-Each house shall keep a
journal of its proceedings which, ex-
cept in case of executive sessions, shall
be published, and the yeas and nays
on any question shall, at the request
of five members of such house be
entered upon the journal.
Sec. 19-Au sessions of the legisla-
ture shall be public, except the senate
while sitting in executive session, and
neither house shall. without the con-
sent of the other adjourn for more than
three days nor to any other place
than that in which it may be holding
session.
Length of Sessions.
Sec. 2O-Each regular session of the
legislature Except the first (which may
sit ninety days. shall not exceed sixty
days, except in cases OF impeachment.
No special session shall exceed thirty
days, and in such special session, or
when a regular session of the legisla-
ture trying cases of impeachment ex-
ceedS sixty days, the members shall
only receive for compensation the
usual per diem and mileage.
Sec. 21-The house of representatives
Shall have the sole power of fmpeach-
ment, two-thirds of an the members
elected voting therefor.
Sec. 22-All impeachments shall be
tried by the senate, and, senators when
sitting for that purpose shall take oath
or make affirmation to do justice ac-
cording to the law and the evidence.
When the governor or lieutenant gov
ernor is on trial, the chief justice of
the supreme court shall preside. No
person shall be convicted without the
concurrence of two-thirds of the sena-
tors elected.
ImpeachmentS.
Sec. 23.-The governor and other
state and judicial officers, except jus
tees Of the peace. shall be liable to
Impeachment for high crimes or mis-
demeanors or malfeasance in office !;
but judgment in such cases shall eX-
tend only TO removal from office and
disqualification to hold any office of
honor. trust. or profit in the state
The party, whether convicted or ac-
quilted. shall, nevertheless. be liable
to prosecution. trial and punishment
according to law.
Sec. 24-No person shall be tried on
impeachment, unless he shall have
been served with a copy thereof, at
least ten days before the trial, and
after such notice, he shall not exer-
else the duties of his Office until he
shall have been acquitted
parchment shall be removed for any
of the offenses specified in this article
in such manner as may be provided
by law.
Passage of Laws.
Sec. 26.-The enacting clause of
every law shall be: BE it enacted by
the legislature of the state of Utah.
and no bill or joint resolution shall be
passed except with the assent of
majority of all of the members elected
to each house of the legislature, and
after it has been read three times; and
the vote upon the final passage of all
bills shall be by yeas and nays; and
no law shall be revised or amended by
reference to it's til. only; but the act
as revised. or section as amended, shall
be re-enacted and published at length.
Sec. 27.-No bills shall be passed con-
tanning more than one subject which
shall be clearly expressed in it's title,
except general appropriation bills, and
bills for the codifcation and general
revision of laws. But if any
subject embraced in an act be
shall be void only as to so much
thereof as shall not be so expressed.
Sec. 2S.-The presiding officer of each
house SHALL in the presence of the
house over which he preSides, sign all
bills and joint resolutions passed by
the legislature, after their titles have
been publicly read Immediately before
signing. and the fact of such signing
shall be entered upon the journal.
Sec. 29.-Every bill passed by the
legislature shall be presented to the
governor. If he approves it he shall
sign it, whereupon it shall become a
law. If he does not approve it. he shall
return it with his objections to the
house in which it originated. which
house shall cause such objections to
be entered upon its journal, and pro-
coed to reconsider the same. If after
such reconsideration it again passes
both houses. by a vote of two-thirdS
Of the members elected to each house,
It shall become q. law Notwithstanding
the governors objections. If any bill
shall not be returned within five days
after it shall have been presented TO
the governor Sunday eXcepted) exclu-
sive of the day on which he received
it, it shall become law. without his
signature, unless the legislature by its
final adjournment prevent such return,
in which case it shall not become law
unless the governor within five days
after such adjournment shall file such
bill with his approval in the office OF
the secretary of state.
Sec. 30.-All acts shall be officially
published, and no act shall take effect
until so published nor until sixty days
which it passed. unless the legislature
shall, by vote of two-thirds of all the
members elected to each house, other
wise direct.
Special Laws Prohibited.
Sec. 31.-The legislature is prohibited
from enacting any private or special
laws in the following cases:
Ffrst-Granting divorce.
Second-Changing the names Of per-
sons or places, or constituting one per-
son the heir at law of another.
Third-Locating or changing county
seats.
Fourth-Regulating county and
township affairs.
F'ifth--Incorporating cities. towns or
villages, or changing or amending the
charter of any city. town or village,
O. laying out, opening, vacating or
altering town plats, streets. wards, al
leys or public grounds.
Sixth-Providing for sale or mortgage
of real estate belonging to minors or
others under disability.
Notwithstanding persons to keep
ferries across streams within the
state.
Notwithstanding fines, penalties or
forfeitures.
Ninth-Granting to an individual, as
ISOLATION or corporation any irrevoca-
BILE special or exclusive privilege, i'm
munity or franchise whatever.
Tenth-Providing for the manage
ment of common schools.
notwithstanding increasing or de-
creasing fees. percentages or allow
ances of public officers during the term
for which said officers are elected or
appointed.
But the legislature may repeal any
existing special law relating to the
foregoing subdivisions.
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