Source: https://law.justia.com/constitution/wyoming/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 23:47:01+00:00

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§001. Power inherent in the people.
§004. Security against search and seizure.
§006. Due process of law.
§007. No absolute, arbitrary power.
§008. Courts open to all; suits against state.
§009. Trial by jury inviolate.
§010. Right of accused to defend.
§014. Bail; cruel and unusual punishment.
§015. Penal code to be humane.
§019. Appropriations for sectarian or religious societies or institutions prohibited.
§020. Freedom of speech and press; libel; truth a defense.
§021. Right of petition and peaceable assembly.
§024. Right to bear arms.
§025. Military subordinate to civil power; quartering soldiers.
§027. Elections free and equal.
§028. Taxation; consent of people; uniformity and equality.
§030. Monopolies and perpetuities prohibited.
§033. Compensation for property taken.
§034. Uniform operation of general law.
§035. Ex post facto laws; impairing obligation of contracts.
§036. Rights not enumerated reserved to people.
§037. Constitution of United States supreme law of land.
§001. Powers of government divided into three departments.
§001. Composition and name of legislature.
The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and house of representatives, which shall be designated "the legislature of the State of Wyoming."
§002. Members' terms and qualifications.
§005. When members elected and terms begin.
§006. Compensation of members; duration of sessions.
§007. Time and place of sessions.
§008. Members disqualified for other office.
§009. Compensation not to be increased during term.
§010. Presiding officers; other officers; each house to judge of election and qualifications of its members.
§012. Rules, punishment and protection.
§014. Sessions to be open.
§017. Power of impeachment; proceedings.
§018. Who may be impeached.
§019. Removal of officers not subject to impeachment.
§020. Laws to be passed by bill; alteration or amendment of bills.
§021. Enacting clause of law.
The enacting clause of every law shall be as follows: "Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming."
§022. Limitation on time for introducing bill for appropriation.
§023. Bill must go to committee.
§024. Bill to contain only one subject, which shall be expressed in title.
§025. Vote required to pass bill.
§026. How laws revised, amended or extended.
§027. Special and local laws prohibited.
§030. Extra compensation to public officers prohibited.
§031. Supplies for legislature and departments.
§032. Changing terms and salaries of public officers.
§033. Origin of revenue bills.
§034. General appropriation bills; other appropriations.
§035. Money expended only on appropriation.
§037. Delegation of power to perform municipal functions prohibited.
§038. Investment of trust funds.
§039. Aid to railroads prohibited.
§040. Debts to state or municipal corporation cannot be released unless otherwise prescribed by legislature.
§041. Resolutions; approval or veto.
§042. Bribery of legislators and solicitation of bribery defined; expulsion of legislator for bribery or solicitation.
§044. Witnesses in bribery charges.
§045. Legislature shall define corrupt solicitation.
§046. Interested member shall not vote.
§050. Apportionment for first legislature.
§053. Creation of criminal penalties not subject to governor's power to commute.
§001. Executive power vested in governor; term of governor.
§004. Powers and duties of governor generally.
§005. Pardoning power of governor.
§007. When governor may fill vacancies in office.
§008. Approval or veto of legislation by governor; passage over veto.
§009. Veto of items of appropriations.
§010. Bribery or coercion of or by governor.
§011. State officers; election; qualifications; terms.
§012. State officers; powers and duties.
§013. Salaries of governor and other elective state officers.
§015. Great seal of state.
There shall be a seal of state which shall be called the "Great Seal of the State of Wyoming"; it shall be kept by the secretary of state and used by him officially as directed by law.
§001. How judicial power vested.
§002. Supreme court generally; appellate jurisdiction.
§003. Supreme court generally; original jurisdiction.
§004. Supreme court generally; number; election of chief justice; quorum; vacancies in supreme court or district court; judicial nominating commission; terms; standing for retention in office.
(d) No member of the commission excepting the chairman shall hold any federal, state or county public office or any political party office, and after serving a full term he shall not be eligible for reelection or reappointment to succeed himself on the commission. No member of the judicial nominating commission shall be eligible for appointment to any judicial office while he is a member of the commission nor for a period of one year after the expiration of his term for which he was elected or appointed. Vacancies in the office of commissioner shall be filled for the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments. Additional qualifications of members of the commission may be prescribed by law.
§005. Voluntary retirement and compensation of justices and judges.
§006. Commission on judicial conduct and ethics.
(iv) Procedures for the operation of the commission including exercise of the commission's disciplinary powers.
§007. Supreme court generally; terms of court.
§008. Supreme court generally; qualifications of justices.
§009. Supreme court generally; clerk.
§010. District courts generally; jurisdiction.
The district court shall have original jurisdiction of all causes both at law and in equity and in all criminal cases, of all matters of probate and insolvency and of such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. The district court shall also have original jurisdiction in all cases and of all proceedings in which jurisdiction shall not have been by law vested exclusively in some other court; and said court shall have the power of naturalization and to issue papers therefor. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in justices' and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed by law. Said courts and their judges shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, review, certiorari, prohibition, injunction and writs of habeas corpus, on petition by or on behalf of any person in actual custody in their respective districts.
§011. District courts generally; judges to hold court for each other.
§012. District courts generally; qualifications of judges.
§013. District courts generally; clerks.
§014. District courts generally; commissioners.
The style of all process shall be "The State of Wyoming." All prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the State of Wyoming, and conclude "against the peace and dignity of the State of Wyoming."
§016. Supreme court judges limited to judicial duties.
§017. Salaries of judges of supreme and district courts.
§018. Appeals from district courts to supreme court.
§019. State divided into districts; election and terms of district judges.
§021. Increase in number of districts and judges.
§022. Jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
§023. Appeals from justices' courts.
§024. Terms of district courts; attaching unorganized territory to organized counties.
§025. Judges of supreme and district courts shall not practice.
§026. Power to fix terms of court.
§027. Judges of supreme and district courts shall not hold other office.
§028. Appeals from boards of arbitration.
§029. Juvenile delinquency and domestic relations courts.
§001. Male and female citizens to enjoy equal rights.
§003. Electors privileged from arrest.
§004. Exemption of electors from military duty.
§005. Electors must be citizens of United States.
§006. What persons excluded from franchise.
§007. When residence not lost by reason of absence.
§008. Soldiers stationed in state not considered residents.
§009. Educational qualifications of electors.
§011. Manner of holding elections.
§012. Registration of voters required.
§013. Purity of elections to be provided for.
No person except a qualified elector shall be elected or appointed to any civil or military office in the state. "Military office" shall be limited to the offices of adjutant general, assistant adjutant general for the army national guard and assistant adjutant general for the air national guard.
§016. When officers to hold over; suspension of officers.
§017. Time of holding general and special elections; when elected officers to enter upon duties.
§018. Method of selecting officers whose election is not provided for.
§020. Oath of office; form.
Senators and representatives and all judicial, state and county officers shall, before entering on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of this state, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity; that I have not paid or contributed, or promised to pay or contribute, either directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing, to procure my nomination or election, (or appointment) except for necessary and proper expenses expressly authorized by law; that I have not, knowingly, violated any election law of the state, or procured it to be done by others in my behalf; that I will not knowingly receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing for the performance or nonperformance of any act or duty pertaining to my office, other than the compensation allowed by law."
§021. Oath of office; how administered.
§022. Absent voter ballots, voting and registration.
The provisions of section 11 of article 6 of this constitution, which provides that the ballots therein mentioned shall be delivered on election day to the voters within the polling place by sworn public officials, and that only such ballots so delivered shall be received and counted, shall not be applicable to, affect or invalidate absent voter ballots and voting thereof and registration therefor, as provided by article 14, of chapter 36, Wyoming Revised Statutes, 1931, and other acts of the legislature of the State of Wyoming, amendatory thereof or related thereto, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted.
§001. Legislature to provide for public schools.
The following are declared to be perpetual funds for school purposes, of which the annual income only can be appropriated, towit: Such per centum as has been or may hereafter be granted by congress on the sale of lands in this state; all moneys arising from the sale or lease of sections number sixteen and thirty-six in each township in the state, and the lands selected or that may be selected in lieu thereof; the proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to this state, where by the terms and conditions of the grant, the same are not to be otherwise appropriated; the net proceeds of lands and other property and effects that may come to the state by escheat or forfeiture, or from unclaimed dividends or distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons; all moneys, stocks, bonds, lands and other property now belonging to the common school funds. Provided, that the rents for the ordinary use of said lands shall be applied to the support of public schools and, when authorized by general law, not to exceed thirty-three and one-third (33 1/3) per centum of oil, gas, coal, or other mineral royalties arising from the lease of any said school lands may be so applied.
§003. Other sources of school revenues.
§004. Restriction in use of revenues.
§005. Fines and penalties to belong to public school fund.
§006. State to keep school funds; investment.
§007. Application of school funds.
§008. Distribution of school funds.
Provision shall be made by general law for the equitable allocation of such income among all school districts in the state. But no appropriation shall be made from said fund to any district for the year in which a school has not been maintained for at least three (3) months; nor shall any portion of any public school fund ever be used to support or assist any private school, or any school, academy, seminary, college or other institution of learning controlled by any church or sectarian organization or religious denomination whatsoever.
§010. No discrimination between pupils.
§014. Supervision of schools entrusted to state superintendent of public instruction.
§015. Establishment of university confirmed.
Such charitable, reformatory and penal institutions as the claims of humanity and the public good may require, shall be established and supported by the state in such manner as the legislature may prescribe. They shall be supervised as prescribed by law.
§019. Territorial institutions pass to state.
§020. Duty of legislature to protect and promote health and morality of people.
§021. Buildings and property of territory pass to state.
The legislature shall have no power to change or to locate the seat of government, the state university, or state hospital, but may provide by law for submitting the question of the permanent locations thereof respectively, to the qualified electors of the state, at some general election, and a majority of all votes upon said question cast at said election, shall be necessary to determine the location thereof; but until the same are respectively and permanently located, as herein provided, the location of the seat of government and said institutions shall be as follows: The seat of government shall be located at the City of Cheyenne, in the County of Laramie. The state university shall be centered at the City of Laramie, in the County of Albany. The state hospital shall be located at or near the City of Evanston, in the County of Uinta. A penitentiary shall be located at or near the City of Rawlins, in the County of Carbon. The legislature may provide by law the location of other public institutions, including correctional facilities.
§001. Water is state property.
§002. Legislature to enact regulatory laws.
§003. Restrictions on employment in mines.
§004. Right of action for injuries.
§004. Damages for personal injuries or death; worker's compensation.
(c) Any contract or agreement with any employee waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employee shall be void. As to all extrahazardous employments the legislature shall provide by law for the accumulation and maintenance of a fund or funds out of which shall be paid compensation as may be fixed by law according to proper classifications to each person injured in such employment or to the dependent families of such as die as the result of such injuries, except in case of injuries due solely to the culpable negligence of the injured employee. The fund or funds shall be accumulated, paid into the state treasury and maintained in such manner as may be provided by law. Monies in the fund shall be expended only for compensation authorized by this section, for administration and management of the Worker's Compensation Act, debt service related to the fund and for workplace safety programs conducted by the state as authorized by law. The right of each employee to compensation from the fund shall be in lieu of and shall take the place of any and all rights of action against any employer contributing as required by law to the fund in favor of any person or persons by reason of the injuries or death. Subject to conditions specified by law, the legislature may allow employments not designated extrahazardous to be covered by the state fund at the option of the employer. To the extent an employer elects to be covered by the state fund and contributes to the fund as required by law, the employer shall enjoy the same immunity as provided for extrahazardous employments.
§006. Engaging in more than one line of business.
§007. What corporations are common carriers.
§010. Mutual and co-operative associations.
§011. Powers and rights of railroads.
Any railroad corporation or association organized for the purpose, shall have the right to construct and operate a railroad between any points within this state and to connect at the state line with railroads of other states. Every railroad shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with or cross any other railroad, and all railroads shall receive and transport each other's passengers, and tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination.
§012. Discrimination by railroads and telegraph lines forbidden.
§013. Railroads to make annual reports to state auditor.
§015. Aid to railroads and telegraph lines prohibited.
§016. Acceptance of constitution by existing railroad, transportation and telegraph companies.
§017. Rights of telegraph companies.
§018. Foreign railroad or telegraph company must have agent for service of process.
The boundaries of the State of Wyoming shall be as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, and running thence west to the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude, thence south to the forty-first degree of north latitude, thence east to the twenty-seventh meridian of west longitude, and thence north to the place of beginning.
§001. Existing counties remain such.
§002. Organization of new counties.
§001. Incorporation; alteration of boundaries; merger; consolidation; dissolution; determination of local affairs; classification; referendum; liberal construction.
The governing body may submit, without a petition, any charter ordinance to referendum election under the procedures as previously set out. The charter ordinance shall take effect if approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. An approved charter ordinance, after becoming effective, shall be recorded by the clerk in a book maintained for that purpose with a certificate of the procedures of adoption. A certified copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall keep an index of such ordinances. Each charter ordinance enacted shall prevail over any prior act of the governing body of the city or town, and may be repealed or amended only by subsequent charter ordinance, or by enactments of the legislature applicable to all cities and towns.
§002. Consent of electors necessary.
§003. Restriction on powers to levy taxes and contract debts.
§005. Acquisition of water rights.
Municipal corporations shall have the same right as individuals to acquire rights by prior appropriation and otherwise to the use of water for domestic and municipal purposes, and the legislature shall provide by law for the exercise upon the part of incorporated cities, towns and villages of the right of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring from prior appropriators upon the payment of just compensation, such water as may be necessary for the well being thereof and for domestic uses.
§001. Stated salaries to be paid.
The legislature shall provide by law the fees which may be demanded by justices of the peace and constables in precincts having less than fifteen hundred population, and of court commissioners, boards of arbitration and notaries public, which fees the said officers shall accept as their full compensation. But all other state, county, city, town and school officers shall be required by law to keep a true and correct account of all fees collected by them, and to pay the same into the proper treasury when collected, and the officer whose duty it is to collect such fees shall be held responsible, under his bond, for neglect to collect the same.
§003. Legislature to designate county offices and fix salaries of county officers.
§005. Who are county officers referred to by section 3.
§001. Assessment of lands and improvements thereon.
§002. Assessment of coal lands.
§003. Taxation of mines and mining claims.
§007. Depositories for public moneys.
§008. Profit making from public funds prohibited.
§009. Legislature to provide for state board of equalization.
§010. Duties of state board of equalization.
§011. Uniformity of assessment required.
§013. Tax must be authorized by law; law to state object.
§014. Surrender of taxing power prohibited.
§015. State tax for support of public schools.
§016. Disposition of fees, excises and license taxes on vehicles and gasoline.
§017. County levy for support and maintenance of public schools.
There shall be levied each year in each county of the state a tax of not to exceed six mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property in each county for the support and maintenance of the public schools. This tax shall be collected by the county treasurer and disbursed among the school districts within the county as the legislature shall provide. The legislature may authorize boards of trustees of school districts to levy a special tax on the property of the district. The legislature may also provide for the distribution among one or more school districts of not more than three-fourths of any revenue from the special school district property tax in excess of a state average yield, which shall be calculated each year, per average daily membership.
§018. Full tax credit allowed against any liability arising from a tax on income.
§019. Mineral excise tax; distribution.
The Legislature shall provide by law for an excise tax on the privilege of severing or extracting minerals, of one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) on the value of the gross product extracted. The minerals subject to such excise tax shall be coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shale, and such other minerals as may be designated by the Legislature. Such tax shall be in addition to any other excise, severance or ad valorem tax. The proceeds from such tax shall be deposited in the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund, which fund shall remain inviolate. The monies in the fund shall be invested as prescribed by the Legislature and all income from fund investments shall be deposited by the State Treasurer in the general fund on an annual basis. The Legislature may also specify by law, conditions and terms under which monies in the fund may be loaned to political subdivisions of the state.
§001. Limitation on state debt.
§002. Creation of state debt in excess of taxes for current year.
§003. Limitation on county debt.
§004. Creation of county or municipal debt in excess of taxes for current year.
§005. Limitation on municipal, county or school district debt.
§006. Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement.
§007. Payments of public money.
§008. Endorsements required on bonds and other evidences of indebtedness.
§009. Construction and improvement of public roads and highways.
§010. Construction and improvement of works for conservation and utilization of water.
§011. Construction, maintenance and improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities.
§012. Economic development loan fund.
§013. Industrial and economic development; powers of counties and municipalities.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this constitution, the legislature may authorize counties or incorporated municipalities, to appropriate from local sources of revenue such funds as may be deemed necessary for an economic or industrial development project or program, public or private, subject to approval by a vote of the majority of the registered voters of the county or municipality voting upon the question. For purposes of this section, "funds from local sources of revenue" means funds raised from general taxes levied by the county or municipality and shall not include any funds received by the county or municipality which are derived from state or federal sources.
§001. Of whom militia constituted.
§002. Legislature to provide for enrollment, equipment and discipline.
§005. Governor to be commander-in-chief; powers.
§001. Acceptance of lands from United States; sale of such lands.
§002. Application of proceeds of sale or rental.
§003. Board of land commissioners.
§004. Legislature to provide for disposition of lands.
§006. Disposition of unexpended income of perpetual school fund.
§001. Legislature to provide for protection of livestock and stock owners.
Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day's work in all mines, and on all state and municipal works.
§003. Who shall not be employed on public works.
§004. Legislature to provide for enforcement of section 3.
§005. Legislature to establish courts of arbitration; duties.
§006. Importing armed bodies to suppress violence prohibited; exception.
§007. Contract exempting employer from liability for personal injuries prohibited.
§008. Legislature to provide for voluntary submission of differences to arbitrators.
§011. Use of monies in public employee retirement funds restricted.
§001. How amendments proposed by legislature and submitted to people.
§002. How two or more amendments voted on.
§004. Constitution adopted by convention to be submitted to people.
§002. Territorial property vested in state.
§003. Territorial laws become state laws.
§004. Accrued fines go to state.
§005. State to sue on bonds and prosecute crimes.
§006. Territorial officers to hold over.
This constitution shall be submitted for adoption or rejection to a vote of the qualified electors of this territory, at an election to be held on the first Tuesday in November, A. D. 1889. Said election, as nearly as may be, shall be conducted in all respects in the same manner as provided by the laws of the territory for general elections, and the returns thereof shall be made to the secretary of said territory, who with the governor and chief justice thereof, or any two of them, shall canvass the same, and if a majority of the legal votes cast shall be for the constitution the governor shall certify the result to the president of the United States, together with a statement of the votes cast thereon and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordinances. At the said election the ballots shall be in the following form: "For the constitution--Yes. No." And as a heading to each of said ballots, shall be printed on each ballot the following instructions to voters: "All persons who desire to vote for the constitution may erase the word 'No.' All persons who desire to vote against the constitution may erase the word 'Yes.'" Any person may have printed or written on his ballot only the words: "For the Constitution," or "Against the Constitution," and such ballots shall be counted for or against the constitution accordingly.
§008. When constitution takes effect.
§009. First state election; time of holding; proclamation.
§010. First state election; duty of county commissioners; who may vote; conduct of election.
§011. First state election; board of canvassers.
§012. When officers shall qualify; oaths; bonds.
§014. Laws to be passed.
§015. Transfer of pending causes, records and seal of courts.
§017. Transfer of causes and records from probate courts to district courts.
§019. Duration of terms of territorial county and precinct officers.
§020. Terms of state officers first elected.
§021. Regular session of legislature following first session.
§022. Regular election following first session of legislature to be omitted.
§024. State part of United States.
§026. Ownership of certain lands disclaimed; restriction on taxation of nonresidents.
§028. Legislature to provide for public schools.

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