Article IX, § 198 — Maximum Number of Members of House of Representatives; Apportionment of House Based on Decennial Census of United States
This text of Alabama Const. art. IX, § 198 (Maximum Number of Members of House of Representatives; Apportionment of House Based on Decennial Census of United States) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Alabama primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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The house of representatives shall consist of not more than one hundred and five members, unless new counties shall be created, in which event each new county shall be entitled to one representative. The members of the house of representatives shall be apportioned by the legislature among the several counties of the state, according to the number of inhabitants in them, respectively, as ascertained by the decennial census of the United States, which apportionment, when made, shall not be subject to alteration until the next session of the legislature after the next decennial census of the United States shall have been taken.
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