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§ Preliminary Action
Art.
Preliminary Action
§ Ordinance
Art.
Ordinance
§ Preamble
Art.
Preamble
§ 1
Inalienable rights
Art.
1
§ 2
Purpose of government; paramount allegiance to United States
Art.
1
§ 3
Trial by jury; waiver in civil cases
Art.
1
§ 4
Liberty of conscience
Art.
1
§ 5
Suspension of habeas corpus
Art.
1
§ 6
Excessive bail and fines; cruel or unusual punishments; detention of witnesses
Art.
1
§ 7
Bail; exception for capital offenses and certain murders
Art.
1
§ 8
Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions; jeopardy; due process of law; eminent domain
Art.
1
§ 8A
Rights of victims of crime
Art.
1
§ 9
Liberty of speech and the press
Art.
1
§ 10
Right to assemble and to petition
Art.
1
§ 11
Right to keep and bear arms; civil power supreme
Art.
1
§ 12
Quartering soldier in private house
Art.
1
§ 13
Representation apportioned according to population
Art.
1
§ 14
Exemption of property from execution; imprisonment for debt
Art.
1
§ 15
Bill of attainder; ex post facto law; obligation of contract
Art.
1
§ 16
Rights of foreigners
Art.
1
§ 17
Slavery and involuntary servitude prohibited
Art.
1
§ 18
Unreasonable seizure and search; issuance of warrants
Art.
1
§ 19
Treason
Art.
1
§ 20
Rights retained by people
Art.
1
§ 21
Recognition of marriage
Art.
1
§ 22
Eminent domain proceedings: Restrictions and requirements
Art.
1
§ 24
Equality of rights
Art.
1
§ 25
Fundamental right to reproductive freedom
Art.
1
§ 1
Right to vote; qualifications of elector; qualifications of nonelector to vote for President and Vice President of United States
Art.
2
§ 1A
Rights of voters
Art.
2
§ 2
When residence not gained or lost
Art.
2
§ 3
Armed Forces personnel
Art.
2
§ 4
Privilege of qualified electors on general election day
Art.
2
§ 5
Voting by ballot; voting in elections by legislature
Art.
2
§ 6
Registration of electors; test of electoral qualifications
Art.
2
§ 7
Poll tax: Levy and purpose
Art.
2
§ 8
Qualifications of voters on adoption or rejection of constitution
Art.
2
§ 9
Recall of public officers: Procedure and limitations
Art.
2
§ 10
Limitation on contributions to campaign
Art.
2
§ 1
Three separate departments; separation of powers; legislative review of administrative regulations
Art.
3
§ 1
Legislative power vested in senate and assembly
Art.
4
§ 2
Biennial sessions of Legislature: Commencement; limitation on duration; void actions; submission of proposed executive budget
Art.
4
§ 2A
Special sessions of Legislature: Procedure for convening; precedence; limitations on business and duration; void actions
Art.
4
§ 3
Members of assembly: Election and term of office; eligibility for office
Art.
4
§ 4
Senators: Election and term of office; eligibility for office
Art.
4
§ 5
Number of Senators and members of Assembly; apportionment
Art.
4
§ 6
Power of houses to judge qualifications, elections and returns of members; selection of officers; rules of proceedings; punishment of members
Art.
4
§ 7
Punishment of nonmember
Art.
4
§ 8
Senators and members of Assembly ineligible for certain offices
Art.
4
§ 9
Federal officers ineligible for state office; exceptions
Art.
4
§ 10
Embezzler of public money ineligible for office; disqualification for bribery
Art.
4
§ 11
Privilege of members: Freedom from arrest on civil process
Art.
4
§ 12
Vacancy
Art.
4
§ 13
Quorum; compelling attendance
Art.
4
§ 14
Journal
Art.
4
§ 15
Open sessions and meetings; adjournment for more than 3 days or to another place
Art.
4
§ 16
Bills may originate in either house; amendment
Art.
4
§ 17
Act to embrace one subject only; title; amendment
Art.
4
§ 18
Reading of bill; voting on final passage; number of members necessary to pass bill or joint resolution; signatures; referral of certain measures to voters; consent calendar
Art.
4
§ 19
Manner of drawing money from treasury
Art.
4
§ 20
Certain local and special laws prohibited
Art.
4
§ 21
General laws to have uniform application
Art.
4
§ 22
Suit against state
Art.
4
§ 23
Enacting clause; law to be enacted by bill
Art.
4
§ 24
Lotteries
Art.
4
§ 25
Uniform county and township government
Art.
4
§ 26
Boards of county commissioners: Election and duties
Art.
4
§ 27
Disqualification of jurors; elections
Art.
4
§ 28
Compensation of legislative officers and employees; increase or decrease of compensation
Art.
4
§ 29
Duration of regular and special sessions
Art.
4
§ 30
Homesteads: Exemption from forced sale; joint consent required for alienation; recording of declaration
Art.
4
§ 31
Property of married persons
Art.
4
§ 32
County officers: Power of legislature; election, duties and compensation; duties of county clerks
Art.
4
§ 33
Compensation of members of Legislature; payment for postage, stationery and other expenses; additional allowances for officers
Art.
4
§ 34
Election of United States Senators
Art.
4
§ 35
Bills to be presented to governor; approval; disapproval and reconsideration by legislature; failure of governor to return bill
Art.
4
§ 37
Continuity of government in case of enemy attack; succession to public offices; legislative quorum requirements; relocation of seat of government
Art.
4
§ 38
Use of plant of genus Cannabis for medical purposes
Art.
4
§ 39
Renewable energy resources: Statement of policy; implementation; severability
Art.
4
§ 1
Supreme executive power vested in governor
Art.
5
§ 2
Election and term of governor
Art.
5
§ 3
Eligibility; qualifications; number of terms
Art.
5
§ 4
Returns of general election transmitted to secretary of state; canvass by supreme court; declaration of election
Art.
5
§ 5
Governor is commander in chief of state military forces
Art.
5
§ 6
Transaction of executive business; reports of executive officers
Art.
5
§ 7
Responsibility for execution of laws
Art.
5
§ 8
Vacancies filled by governor
Art.
5
§ 9
Special sessions of Legislature: Authority of Governor; limitations on business and duration; void actions
Art.
5
§ 10
Governors message
Art.
5
§ 11
Adjournment of legislature by governor
Art.
5
§ 12
Person holding federal office ineligible for office of governor
Art.
5
§ 13
Pardons, reprieves and commutations of sentence; remission of fines and forfeitures
Art.
5
§ 14
State Board of Pardons Commissioners; remission of fines and forfeitures; commutations and pardons; suspension of sentence; probation
Art.
5
§ 15
The Great Seal
Art.
5
§ 16
Grants and commissions: Signatures and seal
Art.
5
§ 17
Election, term, qualifications and duties of Lieutenant Governor; President of Senate; President Pro-tempore of Senate to act as Governor in certain circumstances
Art.
5
§ 18
Vacancy in office of governor; duties to devolve upon lieutenant governor
Art.
5
§ 19
Other state officers: Election and term of office; eligibility for office
Art.
5
§ 20
Secretary of State: Duties
Art.
5
§ 21
Board of state prison commissioners; board of examiners; examination of claims
Art.
5
§ 22
Duties of certain state officers
Art.
5
§ 1
Judicial power vested in court system
Art.
6
§ 2
Supreme court: Composition; staggered terms of justices; holding of court by panels of justices and full court
Art.
6
§ 3
Justices of Supreme Court: Election; terms; Chief Justice
Art.
6
§ 3A
Court of appeals: Composition; panel of judges; appointment, election and terms of judges; chief judge; service of judges as supplemental district judges
Art.
6
§ 4
Jurisdiction of Supreme Court and court of appeals; appointment of judge to sit for disabled or disqualified justice or judge
Art.
6
§ 5
Judicial districts; election and terms of district judges
Art.
6
§ 6
District Courts: Jurisdiction; referees; family court
Art.
6
§ 7
Terms of courts
Art.
6
§ 8
Number, qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of justices of the peace; appeals; courts of record
Art.
6
§ 9
Municipal courts
Art.
6
§ 10
Fees or perquisites of judicial officers
Art.
6
§ 11
Justices and judges ineligible for other offices
Art.
6
§ 12
Judge not to charge jury respecting matters of fact; statement of testimony and declaration of law
Art.
6
§ 13
Style of process
Art.
6
§ 14
One form of civil action
Art.
6
§ 15
Compensation of justices and judges
Art.
6
§ 16
Special fee in civil action for compensation of judges
Art.
6
§ 17
Absence of judicial officer from state; vacation of office
Art.
6
§ 18
Territorial judicial officers not superseded until election and qualification of successors
Art.
6
§ 19
Administration of court system by chief justice
Art.
6
§ 20
Filling of vacancies occurring before expiration of term of office in Supreme Court or court of appeals or among district judges; Commission on Judicial Selection
Art.
6
§ 21
Commission on Judicial Discipline; Code of Judicial Conduct
Art.
6
§ 1
Impeachment: Trial; conviction
Art.
7
§ 2
Officers subject to impeachment
Art.
7
§ 3
Removal of justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals and judges of district courts
Art.
7
§ 4
Removal of other civil officers
Art.
7
§ 1
Corporations formed under general laws; municipal corporations formed under special acts
Art.
8
§ 2
Corporate property subject to taxation; exemptions
Art.
8
§ 3
Individual liability of corporators
Art.
8
§ 4
Regulation of corporations incorporated under territorial law
Art.
8
§ 5
Corporations may sue and be sued
Art.
8
§ 6
Circulation of certain bank notes or paper as money prohibited
Art.
8
§ 7
Eminent domain by corporations
Art.
8
§ 8
Municipal corporations formed under general laws
Art.
8
§ 9
Gifts or loans of public money to certain corporations prohibited
Art.
8
§ 10
Loans of public money to or ownership of stock in certain corporations by county or municipal corporation prohibited
Art.
8
§ 1
Fiscal year
Art.
9
§ 2
Annual tax for state expenses; trust funds for industrial accidents, occupational diseases and public employees retirement system; administration of public employees retirement system
Art.
9
§ 3
State indebtedness: Limitations and exceptions
Art.
9
§ 4
Assumption of debts of county, city or corporation by state
Art.
9
§ 5
Proceeds from fees for licensing and registration of motor vehicles and excise taxes on fuel reserved for construction, maintenance and repair of public highways; exception
Art.
9
§ 1
Uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; valuation of property; exceptions and exemptions; inheritance and personal income taxes prohibited
Art.
10
§ 2
Total tax levy for public purposes limited
Art.
10
§ 3B
Durable medical equipment, oxygen delivery equipment and mobility enhancing equipment exempt from taxes on retail sales
Art.
10
§ 4
Taxation of estates taxed by United States; limitations
Art.
10
§ 5
Tax on proceeds of minerals; appropriation to counties; apportionment; assessment and taxation of mines
Art.
10
§ 6
Enactment of exemption from ad valorem tax on property or excise tax on retail sales
Art.
10
§ 1
Legislature to encourage education; appointment, term and duties of superintendent of public instruction
Art.
11
§ 2
Uniform system of common schools
Art.
11
§ 3
Pledge of certain property and money, escheated estates and fines collected under penal laws for educational purposes; apportionment and use of interest
Art.
11
§ 4
Establishment of state university; control by board of regents
Art.
11
§ 5
Establishment of normal schools and grades of schools; oath of teachers and professors
Art.
11
§ 6
Support of university and common schools by direct legislative appropriation; priority of appropriations
Art.
11
§ 7
Board of Regents: Election and duties
Art.
11
§ 8
Immediate organization and maintenance of state university
Art.
11
§ 9
Sectarian instruction prohibited in common schools and university
Art.
11
§ 1
Legislature to provide for militia
Art.
12
§ 2
Power of governor to call out militia
Art.
12
§ 1
Institutions for insane, blind, deaf and dumb to be fostered and supported by state
Art.
13
§ 2
State prison: Establishment and maintenance; juvenile offenders
Art.
13
§ 3
County public welfare
Art.
13
§ 1
Boundary of the State of Nevada
Art.
14
§ 1
Carson City seat of government
Art.
15
§ 2
Oath of office
Art.
15
§ 3
Eligibility for public office
Art.
15
§ 4
Perpetuities; eleemosynary purposes
Art.
15
§ 5
Time of general election
Art.
15
§ 6
Number of members of legislature limited
Art.
15
§ 7
County offices at county seats
Art.
15
§ 8
Publication of general statutes; publication and effective date of decisions of Supreme Court and court of appeals
Art.
15
§ 9
Increase or decrease of compensation of officers whose compensation fixed by constitution
Art.
15
§ 10
Election or appointment of officers
Art.
15
§ 11
Term of office when not fixed by Constitution; limitation; municipal officers and employees
Art.
15
§ 12
Certain state officers to keep offices at Carson City
Art.
15
§ 13
Census by legislature and Congress: Basis of representation in houses of legislature
Art.
15
§ 14
Election by plurality
Art.
15
§ 14A
National Popular Vote Compact: Enactment
Art.
15
§ 14B
National Popular Vote Compact: Procedure for presidential election; withdrawal
Art.
15
§ 15
Merit system governing employment in executive branch of state government
Art.
15
§ 16
Payment of minimum compensation to employees
Art.
15
§ 1
Constitutional amendments: Procedure; concurrent and consecutive amendments
Art.
16
§ 2
Convention for revision of constitution: Procedure
Art.
16
§ 1
Saving existing rights and liabilities
Art.
17
§ 2
Territorial laws to remain in force
Art.
17
§ 3
Fines, penalties and forfeitures to inure to state
Art.
17
§ 4
Existing obligations and pending suits
Art.
17
§ 5
Salaries of state officers for first term of office
Art.
17
§ 6
Apportionment of Senators and members of Assembly
Art.
17
§ 7
Assumption of territorial debts and liabilities
Art.
17
§ 8
Terms of elected state officers
Art.
17
§ 9
Terms of senators
Art.
17
§ 10
Terms of Senators and members of Assembly after 1866
Art.
17
§ 11
Terms of members of Assembly elected at first general election or in 1865
Art.
17
§ 12
Commencement date of first three legislative sessions; regular sessions of legislature to be held biennially
Art.
17
§ 13
Continuation of territorial county and township officers; probate judges
Art.
17
§ 14
Duties of certain territorial officers continued
Art.
17
§ 15
Terms of supreme court and district courts
Art.
17
§ 16
Salaries of district judges
Art.
17
§ 17
Alteration of salary of district judge authorized
Art.
17
§ 18
Qualification and terms of certain elective state officers
Art.
17
§ 19
When justices of supreme court and district judges enter upon duties
Art.
17
§ 20
State officers and district judges to be commissioned by territorial governor; state controller and treasurer to furnish bonds
Art.
17
§ 21
Support of county and city officers
Art.
17
§ 22
Vacancies in certain state offices: How filled
Art.
17
§ 23
Civil and criminal cases pending in probate courts transferred to district courts
Art.
17
§ 24
Levy of tax limited for 3 years
Art.
17
§ 25
Roop County attached to Washoe County
Art.
17
§ 26
Constitutional debates and proceedings: Publication; payment of reporter
Art.
17
§ 1
Rights of suffrage and officeholding
Art.
18
§ 1
Referendum for approval or disapproval of statute or resolution enacted by legislature
Art.
19
§ 2
Initiative petition for enactment or amendment of statute or amendment of Constitution; concurrent and consecutive amendments
Art.
19
§ 3
Referendum and initiative petitions: Contents and form; signatures; enacting clause; manner of verification of signatures
Art.
19
§ 4
Powers of initiative and referendum of registered voters of counties and municipalities
Art.
19
§ 5
Provisions of article self-executing; legislative procedures
Art.
19
§ 6
Limitation on initiative making appropriation or requiring expenditure of money
Art.
19
§ A
BALLOT TITLE
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ B
PREAMBLE
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ C
VOTER INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ D
VOTER INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMIT PLEDGE FOR NON-INCUMBENTS
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ E
VOTER INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS FOR STATE LEGISLATORS
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ F
DESIGNATION
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ G
AUTOMATIC REPEAL
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ H
JURISDICTION
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ I
SEVERABILITY
Art.
Congressional Term Limits Act
§ Preamble
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 1
Proclamation by territorial governor; general election
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 2
Qualified electors may vote for adoption or rejection of constitution
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 3
Qualified electors for first general election
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 4
Elections: Places, judges, inspectors and procedure
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 5
Election returns
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 6
Canvass of votes; proclamation; issuance of certificates of election
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 7
List of electors in Army of the United States
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 8
Transmission of lists of electors in Army of the United States
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 9
Voting by soldiers: Qualifications
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 10
Voting by soldiers: Procedure; count of votes
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 11
Voting by soldiers: Transmission of results
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 12
Voting by soldiers: Form of return
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 13
Voting by soldiers: Territorial governor to furnish form of return
Art.
Election Ordinance
§ 14
Applicability to future votes of soldiers
Art.
Election Ordinance