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§ 0
Preamble.
Art.
Preamble
§ 1
Inherent and inalienable rights.
Art.
I
§ 2
All political power inherent in the people.
Art.
I
§ 3
Utah inseparable from the Union.
Art.
I
§ 4
Religious liberty.
Art.
I
§ 5
Habeas corpus.
Art.
I
§ 6
Right to bear arms.
Art.
I
§ 7
Due process of law.
Art.
I
§ 8
Offenses bailable.
Art.
I
§ 9
Excessive bail and fines -- Cruel punishments.
Art.
I
§ 10
Trial by jury.
Art.
I
§ 11
Courts open -- Redress of injuries.
Art.
I
§ 12
Rights of accused persons.
Art.
I
§ 13
Prosecution by information or indictment -- Grand jury.
Art.
I
§ 14
Unreasonable searches forbidden -- Issuance of warrant.
Art.
I
§ 15
Freedom of speech and of the press -- Libel.
Art.
I
§ 16
No imprisonment for debt -- Exception.
Art.
I
§ 17
Elections to be free -- Soldiers voting.
Art.
I
§ 18
Attainder -- Ex post facto laws -- Impairing contracts.
Art.
I
§ 19
Treason defined -- Proof.
Art.
I
§ 20
Military subordinate to the civil power.
Art.
I
§ 21
Slavery and involuntary servitude forbidden -- Limitation.
Art.
I
§ 22
Private property for public use.
Art.
I
§ 23
Irrevocable franchises forbidden.
Art.
I
§ 24
Uniform operation of laws.
Art.
I
§ 25
Rights retained by people.
Art.
I
§ 26
Provisions mandatory and prohibitory.
Art.
I
§ 27
Fundamental rights.
Art.
I
§ 28
Declaration of the rights of crime victims.
Art.
I
§ 29
Marriage.
Art.
I
§ 30
Right to hunt and fish.
Art.
I
§ 1
State boundaries.
Art.
II
§ 1
Art.
III
§ 1
Equal political rights.
Art.
IV
§ 2
Qualifications to vote.
Art.
IV
§ 3
Voters -- Immunity from arrest.
Art.
IV
§ 4
Voters -- Immunity from militia duty.
Art.
IV
§ 5
Voters to be citizens of United States.
Art.
IV
§ 6
Mentally incompetent persons, convicted felons, and certain criminals ineligible to vote.
Art.
IV
§ 7
Property qualification forbidden.
Art.
IV
§ 8
Election to be by secret ballot.
Art.
IV
§ 9
General and special elections -- Terms -- Election of local officers.
Art.
IV
§ 10
Oath of office.
Art.
IV
§ 1
Three departments of government.
Art.
V
§ 1
Power vested in Senate, House, and People.
Art.
VI
§ 2
Time and location of annual general sessions -- Location of sessions convened by the Governor or Legislature -- Sessions convened by the Legislature.
Art.
VI
§ 3
Election of House members -- Terms.
Art.
VI
§ 4
Election of Senators -- Terms.
Art.
VI
§ 5
Who is eligible as a legislator.
Art.
VI
§ 6
Who ineligible as legislator.
Art.
VI
§ 7
Ineligibility of legislator to office created at term for which elected.
Art.
VI
§ 8
Legislator, privilege from arrest.
Art.
VI
§ 9
Compensation of legislators -- Citizens' salary commission.
Art.
VI
§ 10
Each house to be judge of election and qualifications of its members -- Expulsion -- Legislative ethics commission.
Art.
VI
§ 11
Majority is quorum -- Attendance compelled.
Art.
VI
§ 12
Rules -- Choosing officers and employees.
Art.
VI
§ 13
Vacancies to be filled.
Art.
VI
§ 14
Journals -- Yeas and nays.
Art.
VI
§ 15
Sessions to be public -- Adjournments.
Art.
VI
§ 16
Duration of sessions.
Art.
VI
§ 17
Impeachment by House.
Art.
VI
§ 18
Trial of impeachment by Senate.
Art.
VI
§ 19
Officers liable for impeachment -- Judgment -- Prosecution by law.
Art.
VI
§ 20
Service of articles of impeachment.
Art.
VI
§ 21
Removal of officers.
Art.
VI
§ 22
Reading of bills -- Bill to contain only one subject -- Bills passed by majority.
Art.
VI
§ 24
Presiding officers to sign bills.
Art.
VI
§ 25
Publication of acts -- Effective dates of acts.
Art.
VI
§ 26
Private laws forbidden.
Art.
VI
§ 27
Games of chance not authorized.
Art.
VI
§ 28
Special privileges forbidden.
Art.
VI
§ 29
Lending public credit and subscribing to stock or bonds forbidden -- Exception.
Art.
VI
§ 30
Continuity in government.
Art.
VI
§ 31
Additional compensation of legislators.
Art.
VI
§ 32
Appointment of additional employees -- Legal counsel.
Art.
VI
§ 33
Legislative auditor appointed.
Art.
VI
§ 1
Executive Department officers -- Terms, residence, and duties.
Art.
VII
§ 2
Election of officers -- Governor and Lieutenant Governor elected jointly.
Art.
VII
§ 3
Qualifications of officers.
Art.
VII
§ 4
Governor commander-in-chief.
Art.
VII
§ 5
Executive power vested in Governor -- Duties -- Legal counsel.
Art.
VII
§ 6
Convening of extra sessions of Legislature -- Advance public notice.
Art.
VII
§ 7
Adjournment of Legislature by Governor.
Art.
VII
§ 8
Bills presented to governor for approval and veto -- Items of appropriation -- Legislative session to consider vetoed items.
Art.
VII
§ 9
Governor may fill certain vacancies.
Art.
VII
§ 10
Governor's appointive power -- Governor to appoint to fill vacancy in other state offices -- Vacancy in the office of the Lieutenant Governor.
Art.
VII
§ 11
Vacancy in office of Governor -- Determination of disability.
Art.
VII
§ 12
Board of Pardons and Parole -- Appointment -- Powers and procedures -- Governor's powers and duties -- Legislature's powers.
Art.
VII
§ 14
Duties of Lieutenant Governor.
Art.
VII
§ 15
Duties of State Auditor and State Treasurer.
Art.
VII
§ 16
Duties of Attorney General.
Art.
VII
§ 18
Compensation of state and local officers.
Art.
VII
§ 19
Grants and commissions.
Art.
VII
§ 20
The Great Seal.
Art.
VII
§ 21
United States' officials ineligible to hold state office.
Art.
VII
§ 1
Judicial powers -- Courts.
Art.
VIII
§ 2
Supreme court -- Chief justice -- Declaring law unconstitutional -- Justice unable to participate.
Art.
VIII
§ 3
Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
Art.
VIII
§ 4
Rulemaking power of Supreme Court -- Judges pro tempore -- Regulation of practice of law.
Art.
VIII
§ 5
Jurisdiction of district court and other courts -- Right of appeal.
Art.
VIII
§ 6
Number of judges of district court and other courts -- Divisions.
Art.
VIII
§ 7
Qualifications of justices and judges.
Art.
VIII
§ 8
Vacancies -- Nominating commissions -- Senate approval.
Art.
VIII
§ 9
Judicial retention elections.
Art.
VIII
§ 10
Restrictions on justices and judges.
Art.
VIII
§ 11
Judges of courts not of record.
Art.
VIII
§ 12
Judicial Council -- Chief justice as administrative officer -- Legal counsel.
Art.
VIII
§ 13
Judicial Conduct Commission.
Art.
VIII
§ 14
Compensation of justices and judges.
Art.
VIII
§ 15
Mandatory retirement.
Art.
VIII
§ 16
Public prosecutors.
Art.
VIII
§ 1
Dividing the state into districts.
Art.
IX
§ 2
Number of members of Legislature.
Art.
IX
§ 1
Free nonsectarian schools.
Art.
X
§ 2
Defining what shall constitute the public school system.
Art.
X
§ 3
State Board of Education.
Art.
X
§ 4
Control of higher education system by statute -- Rights and immunities confirmed.
Art.
X
§ 5
State School Fund and Uniform School Fund -- Establishment and use -- Debt guaranty.
Art.
X
§ 7
Proceeds of land grants constitute permanent funds.
Art.
X
§ 8
No religious or partisan tests in schools.
Art.
X
§ 9
Public aid to church schools forbidden.
Art.
X
§ 1
Counties recognized as legal subdivisions.
Art.
XI
§ 2
Moving a county seat.
Art.
XI
§ 3
Changing county lines.
Art.
XI
§ 4
Optional forms of county government.
Art.
XI
§ 5
Cities and towns not to be created by special laws -- Legislature to provide for the incorporation, organization, dissolution, and classification of cities and towns -- Charter cities.
Art.
XI
§ 6
Municipal water rights and sources of water supply.
Art.
XI
§ 7
Special service districts.
Art.
XI
§ 8
Political subdivisions of the State or other governmental entities in addition to counties, cities, towns, school districts, and special service districts.
Art.
XI
§ 9
Consent of local authorities necessary for use of streets.
Art.
XI
§ 10
Election of County Sheriffs.
Art.
XI
§ 1
Corporations formation.
Art.
XII
§ 4
Suits.
Art.
XII
§ 12
Common carriers -- No discrimination.
Art.
XII
§ 19
Blacklisting forbidden.
Art.
XII
§ 20
Free market system as state policy -- Restraint of trade and monopolies prohibited.
Art.
XII
§ 1
Fiscal year.
Art.
XIII
§ 2
Property tax.
Art.
XIII
§ 3
Property tax exemptions.
Art.
XIII
§ 4
Other taxes.
Art.
XIII
§ 5
Use and amount of taxes and expenditures.
Art.
XIII
§ 6
State Tax Commission.
Art.
XIII
§ 7
County boards of equalization.
Art.
XIII
§ 8
Annual statement.
Art.
XIII
§ 1
Fixing the limit of the state indebtedness -- Exceptions.
Art.
XIV
§ 2
Debts for public defense.
Art.
XIV
§ 3
Certain debt of counties, cities, towns, school districts, and other political subdivisions not to exceed taxes -- Exception -- Debt may be incurred only for specified purposes.
Art.
XIV
§ 4
Limit of indebtedness of counties, cities, towns, and school districts -- Larger indebtedness may be allowed.
Art.
XIV
§ 5
Borrowed money to be applied to authorized use.
Art.
XIV
§ 6
State not to assume county, city, town or school district debts -- Exception.
Art.
XIV
§ 7
Existing indebtedness not impaired.
Art.
XIV
§ 1
How constituted.
Art.
XV
§ 2
Organization and equipment.
Art.
XV
§ 1
Rights of labor to be protected.
Art.
XVI
§ 2
Board of labor.
Art.
XVI
§ 3
Certain employment and practices to be prohibited.
Art.
XVI
§ 4
Exchange of blacklists prohibited.
Art.
XVI
§ 5
Injuries resulting in death -- Damages.
Art.
XVI
§ 6
Eight hours a day's labor on public works -- Health and safety laws.
Art.
XVI
§ 7
Legislature to enforce this article.
Art.
XVI
§ 8
Minimum wage for women and minors -- Comfort and safety laws.
Art.
XVI
§ 1
Existing rights confirmed.
Art.
XVII
§ 1
Forests to be preserved.
Art.
XVIII
§ 1
Land grants accepted on terms of trust.
Art.
XX
§ 2
School and institutional trust lands.
Art.
XX
§ 1
Homestead exemption.
Art.
XXII
§ 3
Seat of government.
Art.
XXII
§ 4
State trust fund -- Principal to be held in perpetuity -- Use of income.
Art.
XXII
§ 5
Officers may not profit.
Art.
XXII
§ 1
Amendments: proposal, election.
Art.
XXIII
§ 2
Revision of the Constitution.
Art.
XXIII
§ 3
Submission to electors.
Art.
XXIII
§ 1
Actions, contracts to continue.
Art.
XXIV
§ 2
Territorial laws continued.
Art.
XXIV
§ 3
Prisoners to be held.
Art.
XXIV
§ 4
Fines, penalties and forfeitures due the territory -- Debts of the territory.
Art.
XXIV
§ 5
Recognizances -- Judgments -- Records -- Fines due counties, municipalities and school districts.
Art.
XXIV
§ 6
Criminal prosecutions begun and crimes committed before statehood.
Art.
XXIV
§ 7
Transfer of causes, records.
Art.
XXIV
§ 8
Seals of courts.
Art.
XXIV
§ 9
Transfer of probate causes to district courts.
Art.
XXIV
§ 10
Officers to hold office until superseded.
Art.
XXIV
§ 11
Election for adoption or rejection of Constitution and for state officers -- Voters.
Art.
XXIV
§ 12
Officers to be elected.
Art.
XXIV
§ 13
Contest for district judgeship, how determined.
Art.
XXIV
§ 14
Constitution to be submitted to voters -- Ballot.
Art.
XXIV
§ 15
Election of officers not provided for herein.
Art.
XXIV
§ 16
When Constitution in force.
Art.
XXIV