Article III, § 23 — Private and special laws prohibited

The Legislature is prohibited from enacting any private or special laws in the following cases: 1. Granting divorces. 2. Changing the names of persons or places, or constituting one person the heir at law of another. 3. Locating or changing county seats. 4. Regulating county and township affairs. 5. Incorporating cities, towns and villages or changing or amending the charter of any town, city or village, or laying out, opening, vacating or altering town plats, streets, wards, alleys and public ground. 6. Providing for sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability. 7. Authorizing persons to keep ferries across streams wholly within the state. 8. Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures. 9. Granting to an individual, association or corporation any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever. 10. Providing for the management of common schools. 11. Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances 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. In all other cases where a general law can be applicable no special law shall be enacted.