OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE V
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Art. V §1 | LEGISLATURE - AUTHORITY AND COMPOSITION - POWERS RESERVED TO PEOPLE
Art. V §2 | DESIGNATION AND DEFINITION OF RESERVED POWERS - DETERMINATION OF PERCENTAGES
Art. V §3 | PETITIONS - VETO POWER - ELECTIONS - TIME OF TAKING EFFECT - STYLE OF BILLS - DUTY OF LEGISLATURE
The style of all bills shall be:
"Be it Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma."Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be filed with the Secretary of State and addressed to the Governor of the state, who shall submit the same to the people. The Legislature shall make suitable provisions for carrying into effect the provisions of this article.
Art. V §4 | REFERENDUM AGAINST PART OF ACT
Art. V §5 | RESERVATION OF POWERS TO VOTERS OF COUNTIES AND DISTRICTS - MANNER OF EXERCISING
The requisite number of petitioners for the invocation of the initiative and referendum in counties and districts shall bear twice, or double, the ratio to the whole number of legal voters in such county or district, as herein provided therefor in the State at large.
Art. V §5a | TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION OR GOVERNMENT - ABOLITION AND RESTORATION
Art. V §6 | SUBSEQUENT PROPOSAL OF REJECTED MEASURE
Art. V §7 | POWERS OF LEGISLATURE NOT AFFECTED
Art. V §8 | PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION
Art. V §9 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §9A | SENATORIAL DISTRICTS - TENURE
Each senatorial district, whether single county or multi-county, shall be entitled to one senator, who shall hold office for four years; provided that any senator, serving at the time of the adoption of this amendment, shall serve the full time for which he was elected. Vitalization of senatorial districts shall provide for one-half of the senators to be elected at each general election.
Notes
SECTION V-9(a). Repealed by State Question No. 416, Legislative Referendum No. 142, adopted at election held May 26, 1964.
Repeal proposed by Laws 1963, p. 736, S.J.R. No. 4.SECTION V-9(b). Repealed by State Question No. 416, Legislative Referendum No. 142, adopted at election held May 26, 1964.
Repeal proposed by Laws 1963, p. 736, S.J.R. No. 4.Art. V §10 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §10A | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - NUMBER OF MEMBERS - FORMULA - TENURE
b. Every county having a population less than one full ratio shall be assigned one Representative; every county containing an entire ratio but less than two ratios shall be assigned two Representatives; every county containing a population of two entire ratios but less than three ratios shall be assigned three Representatives; and every county containing a population of three entire ratios but less than four ratios shall be assigned four Representatives.
Each Representative nominated and elected shall hold office for two years.
Art. V §11 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §11A | LEGISLATURE TO APPORTION LEGISLATURE - FAILURE TO MAKE APPORTIONMENT - APPORTIONMENT COMMISSION
Art. V §11B | ORDER OF APPORTIONMENT RENDERED BY COMMISSION
Art. V §11C | REVIEW OF APPORTIONMENT ORDERS - FAILURE TO SEEK REVIEW
Art. V §11D | DETERMINATION BY SUPREME COURT
Art. V §11E | COMPELLING COMMISSION TO ACT - CONSOLIDATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Art. V §12 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §13 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §14 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §15 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §16 | REPEALED BY STATE QUESTION NO 416, LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO 142, ADOPTED AT ELECTION HELD MAY 26, 1964 REPEAL PROPOSED BY LAWS 1963, P 736, SJR NO 4
Art. V §17 | AGE - QUALIFIED ELECTORS - RESIDENTS
Art. V §17A | LIMITATION OF TIME SERVED IN THE LEGISLATURE
Art. V §18 | INELIGIBILITY - FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICERS - CONVICTION OF FELONY
Art. V §19 | EXPELLED MEMBER INELIGIBLE - PUNISHMENT NOT TO BAR INDICTMENT
Art. V §20 | VACANCIES
Art. V §21 | CONFLICT OF INTERESTS PROHIBITED - BOARD ON LEGISLATIVE COMPENSATION
B. The Board on Legislative Compensation is hereby created. Said Board shall be composed of five members appointed by the Governor, two members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and two members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The members appointed by the Governor shall be from religious organizations, communications media, nonstate-supported educational institutions, labor organizations, and retail business; the members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall be from agricultural and civic organizations; and the members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be from manufacturing and from professional fields not otherwise specified. No member of the Legislature may be appointed to or serve on the Board. In addition to the members above provided for, the Chairman of the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Director of State Finance shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members of said Board. The Chairman of said Board shall be designated by the Governor. Members of the Legislature shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the Board on Legislative Compensation. If a member of the Legislature is incarcerated due to being charged with a criminal offense and subsequently is found guilty of the offense or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to the offense, the legislator shall return to the state any compensation the legislator received from the state while the legislator was incarcerated prior to the guilty verdict or plea or nolo contendere plea and shall not receive any compensation from the state during any incarceration following such verdict or plea. Said Board shall each two years review the compensation paid to the members of the Legislature and shall be empowered to change such compensation; such change to become effective on the fifteenth day following the succeeding general election. The members of the Board shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to receive necessary travel and subsistence expense as provided by law for other state officers.
Art. V §22 | PRIVILEGES - ARREST - SPEECHES OR DEBATES
Art. V §23 | INELIGIBILITY TO APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE - INTEREST IN CONTRACTS
Art. V §24 | DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL OR PRIVATE INTEREST
Art. V §25 | DURATION OF FIRST SESSION
Art. V §26 | REGULAR SESSIONS
The Legislature shall also meet in regular session at the seat of government on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of each odd numbered year, beginning at twelve o'clock noon for the purposes only of performing the duties as required by Section 5 of Article VI of the Constitution and organizing pursuant to the provisions of this Article and shall recess not later than five o'clock p.m. of that same day until the following first Monday in February of the same year, beginning at twelve o'clock noon.
Art. V §27 | SPECIAL SESSIONS
Art. V §27A | CALLING SPECIAL SESSIONS
(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the calling of a special session of the Legislature by the Governor, as provided by the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.
Art. V §28 | SENATE - PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE - STANDING COMMITTEES
Art. V §29 | SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Art. V §30 | JUDGES OF ELECTION OF MEMBERS - QUORUM - RULES - DISORDERLY BEHAVIOR - JOURNAL
Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same. The yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question, at the desire of one-fifteenth of those present shall be entered upon its journal.
Neither House, during the session of the Legislature, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Art. V §31 | ELECTIONS BY LEGISLATURE - VOTING AND ENTRY IN JOURNAL
Art. V §32 | SPECIAL AND LOCAL LAWS - NOTICE OF INTENDED INTRODUCTION
Art. V §33 | REVENUE BILLS - ORIGINATION - AMENDMENT - LIMITATIONS ON PASSAGE - EFFECTIVE DATE - SUBMISSION TO VOTERS
B. No revenue bill shall be passed during the five last days of the session.
C. Any revenue bill originating in the House of Representatives shall not become effective until it has been referred to the people of the state at the next general election held throughout the state and shall become effective and be in force when it has been approved by a majority of the votes cast on the measure at such election and not otherwise, except as otherwise provided in subsection D of this section.
D. Any revenue bill originating in the House of Representatives may become law without being submitted to a vote of the people of the state if such bill receives the approval of three-fourths (3/4) of the membership of the House of Representatives and three-fourths (3/4) of the membership of the Senate and is submitted to the Governor for appropriate action. Any such revenue bill shall not be subject to the emergency measure provision authorized in Section 58 of this Article and shall not become effective and be in force until ninety days after it has been approved by the Legislature, and acted on by the Governor.
Art. V §34 | READING AND PASSAGE OF BILLS - YEAS AND NAYS ENTERED ON JOURNAL
Art. V §35 | SIGNING BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS - ENTRY ON JOURNAL
Art. V §36 | EXTENT OF LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY - SPECIFIC GRANTS NOT LIMITATIONS
Art. V §37 | PRINTING PLANT AND STATE PRINTER
Art. V §38 | GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SURVEY
Art. V §39 | BOARDS OF HEALTH, DENTISTRY AND PHARMACY - PURE FOOD COMMISSION - PRESENT PRACTITIONERS
Art. V §40 | MILITIA
Art. V §41 | FIREMEN’S PENSIONS
Art. V §42 | CONTEMPT, DISOBEDIENCE OF PROCESS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Art. V §43 | DECENNIAL REVISION OF LAWS
Art. V §44 | UNLAWFUL RESTRAINTS OF TRADE
Art. V §45 | CARRYING CONSTITUTION INTO EFFECT
Art. V §46 | LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS ON CERTAIN SUBJECTS PROHIBITED
Regulating the affairs of counties, cities, towns, wards, or school districts;
Changing the names of persons or places;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, or maintaining of roads, highways, streets, or alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorporating ferry or bridge companies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries between this and any other state;
Vacating roads, town plats, streets, or alleys;
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the State;
Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children;
Locating or changing county seats;
Incorporating cities, towns, or villages, or changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the places of voting;
Granting divorces;
Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers, in counties, cities, towns, election or school districts;
Changing the law of descent or succession;
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of evidence in judicial proceedings or inquiry before the courts, justices of the peace, sheriffs, commissioners, arbitrators, or other tribunals, or providing or changing the methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcement of judgments or prescribing the effect of judicial sales of real estate;
Regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen, justices of the peace, or constables;
Regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houses, and the raising of money for such purposes;
Fixing the rate of interest;
Affecting the estates of minors, or persons under disability;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, and refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Declaring any named person of age;
Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes, or otherwise relieving any assessor or collector of taxes from due performance of his official duties, or his securities from liability;
Giving effect to informal or invalid wills or deeds;
Summoning or impaneling grand or petit juries;
For limitation of civil or criminal actions;
For incorporating railroads or other works of internal improvements;
Providing for change of venue in civil and criminal cases.
Art. V §47 | RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS
Art. V §48 | BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION
Art. V §49 | LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEES - NUMBER AND EMOLUMENTS
Art. V §50 | EXEMPTION OF PROPERTY FROM TAXATION
Art. V §51 | EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES
Art. V §52 | REVIVAL OF RIGHTS OR REMEDIES - TAKING AWAY CAUSE OF ACTION OR DEFENSE
Art. V §53 | RELEASE OR EXTINGUISHMENT OF DEBTS OR LIABILITIES TO STATE, COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY
Art. V §54 | REPEAL OF STATUTE - EFFECT
Art. V §55 | APPROPRIATIONS - NECESSITY AND REQUISITES
Art. V §56 | GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILLS - SALARIES - SEPARATE APPROPRIATION BILLS
Art. V §57 | SUBJECTS AND TITLES - REVIVAL OR AMENDMENT BY REFERENCE - EXTENT OF INVALIDITY
Art. V §58 | TIME OF TAKING EFFECT OF STATUTES - EMERGENCY MEASURES
Art. V §59 | UNIFORM OPERATION OF GENERAL LAWS - SPECIAL LAWS WHEN GENERAL LAW APPLICABLE
Art. V §60 | SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES
Art. V §61 | PENSIONS TO POLICE OFFICERS
Art. V §62 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL EMPLOYEES
Art. V §63 | CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS IN PERIODS OF EMERGENCY
(2) to adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for so insuring the continuity of governmental operations. In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, the Legislature shall in all respects conform to the requirements of this Constitution.
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