Mississippi Constitution

Article 4, § 36 — Sessions

Mississippi Const. art. 4, § 36

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Miss. Const. art. 4, § 36.

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The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government in regular session on the Tuesday after the first Monday of January of the year A.D., 1970, and annually thereafter, unless sooner convened by the Governor; provided, however, that such sessions shall be limited to a period of one hundred twenty-five (125) calendar days for regular 1972 session and every fourth year thereafter, but ninety (90) calendar days for every other regular session thereafter. Provided further that the House of Representatives, by resolution with the Senate concurring therein, and by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of those present and voting in each house, may extend such limited session for a period of thirty (30) days with no limit on the number of extensions to each session.

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History

SOURCES: 1869 art IV § 6; Laws, 1912, ch. 414; Laws, 1968, ch. 634. NOTE: The 1968 amendment to Section 36 of Article 4 of the Constitution of 1890 was proposed by House Concurrent Resolution No. 36 of the 1968 regular session of the Legislature, and upon ratification by the electorate on June 4, 1968, was inserted by a proclamation of the Secretary of State on June 13, 1968, by virtue of the authority vested in him by Section 273 of the Constitution.

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