NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE II
LEGISLATIVE
Art. II §1 | LEGISLATIVE POWER
Art. II §2 | NUMBER OF SENATORS
Art. II §3 | SENATE DISTRICTS; APPORTIONMENT OF SENATORS
(2) Each senate district shall at all times consist of contiguous territory;
(3) No county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district;
(4) When established, the senate districts and the apportionment of Senators shall remain unaltered until the return of another decennial census of population taken by order of Congress.
Art. II §4 | NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES
Art. II §5 | REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS; APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
(2) Each representative district shall at all times consist of contiguous territory;
(3) No county shall be divided in the formation of a representative district;
(4) When established, the representative districts and the apportionment of Representatives shall remain unaltered until the return of another decennial census of population taken by order of Congress.
Art. II §6 | QUALIFICATIONS FOR SENATOR
Art. II §7 | QUALIFICATIONS FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Art. II §8 | ELECTIONS
Art. II §9 | TERM OF OFFICE
Art. II §10 | VACANCIES
Art. II §11 | SESSIONS
(2) Extra sessions on legislative call. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall convene the General Assembly in extra session by their joint proclamation upon receipt by the President of the Senate of written requests therefor signed by three-fifths of all the members of the Senate and upon receipt by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of written requests therefor signed by three-fifths of all the members of the House of Representatives.
Art. II §12 | OATH OF MEMBERS
Art. II §13 | PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
Art. II §14 | OTHER OFFICERS OF THE SENATE
(2) President Pro Tempore - temporary succession. During the physical or mental incapacity of the President of the Senate to perform the duties of his office, or during the absence of the President of the Senate, the President Pro Tempore shall preside over the Senate.
(3) Other officers. The Senate shall elect its other officers.
Art. II §15 | OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Art. II §16 | COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES
Art. II §17 | JOURNALS
Art. II §18 | PROTESTS
Art. II §19 | RECORD VOTES
Art. II §20 | POWERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Art. II §21 | STYLE OF THE ACTS
Art. II §22 | ACTION ON BILLS
(2) Amendments to Constitution of North Carolina. Every bill proposing a new or revised Constitution or an amendment or amendments to this Constitution or calling a convention of the people of this State, and containing no other matter, shall be submitted to the qualified voters of this State after it shall have been read three times in each house and signed by the presiding officers of both houses.
(3) Amendments to Constitution of the United States. Every bill approving an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or applying for a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and containing no other matter, shall be read three times in each house before it becomes law, and shall be signed by the presiding officers of both houses.
(4) Joint resolutions. Every joint resolution shall be read three times in each house before it becomes effective and shall be signed by the presiding officers of both houses.
(5) Other exceptions. Every bill:
(b) Revising the senate districts and the apportionment of Senators among those districts and containing no other matter;
(c) Revising the representative districts and the apportionment of Representatives among those districts and containing no other matter; or
(d) Revising the districts for the election of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States and the apportionment of Representatives among those districts and containing no other matter, shall be read three times in each house before it becomes law and shall be signed by the presiding officers of both houses.
(b) Would enact a law identical in effect to another law or laws signed by the presiding officers during that two year term of the General Assembly that the result of those laws taken together would be a law applying in more than half the counties in the State.
(b) Sine die in which case it shall become a law unless, within 30 days after such adjournment, it is returned by the Governor with objections and veto message to that house in which it shall have originated. When the General Assembly has adjourned sine die or for more than 30 days jointly as provided under Section 20 of Article II of this Constitution, the Governor shall reconvene that session as provided by Section 5(11) of Article III of this Constitution for reconsideration of the bill, and if the Governor does not reconvene the session, the bill shall become law on the fortieth day after such adjournment. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, if the Governor prior to reconvening the session receives written requests dated no earlier than 30 days after such adjournment, signed by a majority of the members of each house that a reconvened session to reconsider vetoed legislation is unnecessary, the Governor shall not reconvene the session for that purpose and any legislation vetoed in accordance with this section after adjournment shall not become law.
Art. II §23 | REVENUE BILLS
Art. II §24 | LIMITATIONS ON LOCAL, PRIVATE, AND SPECIAL LEGISLATION
(b) Changing the names of cities, towns, and townships;
(c) Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or discontinuing of highways, streets, or alleys;
(d) Relating to ferries or bridges;
(e) Relating to non-navigable streams;
(f) Relating to cemeteries;
(g) Relating to the pay of jurors;
(h) Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts;
(i) Remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury;
(j) Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufacturing;
(k) Extending the time for the levy or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability;
(l) Giving effect to informal wills and deeds;
(m) Granting a divorce or securing alimony in any individual case;
(n) Altering the name of any person, or legitimating any person not born in lawful wedlock, or restoring to the rights of citizenship any person convicted of a felony.
(3) Prohibited acts void. Any local, private, or special act or resolution enacted in violation of the provisions of this Section shall be void.
(4) General laws. The General Assembly may enact general laws regulating the matters set out in this Section.
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