§ 29-1-3 — Annual Sessions; Place of Meeting

The Legislature shall meet annually at the Capitol, in the Senate chamber and in the hall of the House of Representatives, unless at any time it should, from any cause, become impossible or dangerous for the Legislature to meet or remain at the Capitol or for the Senate to meet or remain in the Senate chamber, or for the Representatives to meet or remain in the hall of the House of Representatives, then the Governor may convene the Legislature, or remove it after it has convened, to some other place for the sitting of the respective houses, or either of them, as necessity may require.

Legislative History

(Code 1852, §32; Code 1867, §37; Code 1876, §31; Code 1886, §31; Code 1896, §2215; Code 1907, §902; Code 1923, §1509; Acts 1939, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 11; Code 1940, T. 32, §3.)