Article V — Legislative Department
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Okla. Const. art. V, § 1 The Legislative authority of the State shall be vested in a Legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives
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The Legislative authority of the State shall be vested in a Legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives; but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independe…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 2 Section 2
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The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and eight per centum of the legal voters shall have the right to propose any legislative measure, and fifteen per centum of the legal voters shall have the right to propose amendments to the Constitution by petition, and e…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 3 Section 3
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Referendum petitions shall be filed with the Secretary of State not more than ninety (90) days after the final adjournment of the session of the Legislature which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to measures vote…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 4 Section 4
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The referendum may be demanded by the people against one or more items, sections, or parts of any act of the Legislature in the same manner in which such power may be exercised against a complete act. The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections, or par…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 5 Section 5
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The powers of the initiative and referendum reserved to the people by this Constitution for the State at large, are hereby further reserved to the legal voters of every county and district therein, as to all local legislation, or action, in the administration of county and distri…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 6 Section 6
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Any measure rejected by the people, through the powers of the initiative and referendum, cannot be again proposed by the initiative within three years thereafter by less than twenty-five per centum of the legal voters.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 7 Section 7
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The reservation of the powers of the initiative and referendum in this article shall not deprive the Legislature of the right to repeal any law, propose or pass any measure, which may be consistent with the Constitution of the State and the Constitution of the United States.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 8 Section 8
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Laws shall be provided to prevent corruption in making, procuring, and submitting initiative and referendum petitions. Sections 9 - 9(b) repealed by State Question No. 416 at election held May 26, 1964.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 17 Section 17
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Members of the Senate shall be at least twenty-five years of age, and members of the House of Representatives twenty-one years of age at the time of their election. They shall be qualified electors in their respective counties or districts and shall reside in their respective cou…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 18 Section 18
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No person shall serve as a member of the Legislature who is, at the time of such service, an officer of the United States or State government, or is receiving compensation as such; nor shall any person be eligible to election to the Legislature, who has been adjudged guilty of a …
Okla. Const. art. V, § 19 A member of the Legislature expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be eligible to membership in either House
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A member of the Legislature expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be eligible to membership in either House. Punishment for contempt or disorderly conduct, or for any other cause, shall not bar an indictment for the same offense.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 20 Section 20
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The Governor shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies as may occur in the Legislature. Section 21.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 22 Section 22
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Senators and Representatives shall, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same, and, for any speech or debate in either House, shall not be questioned in any othe…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 23 Section 23
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No member of the Legislature shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed or elected to any office or commission in the State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during his term of office, nor shall any member rec…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 24 Section 24
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A member of the Legislature, who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill, proposed or pending before the Legislature, shall disclose the fact to the House of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 25 Section 25
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The first session of the Legislature, held by virtue of this Constitution, shall not exceed one hundred and sixty days.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 26 Section 26
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The Legislature shall meet in regular session at the seat of government at twelve o'clock noon on the first Monday in February of each year and the regular session shall be finally adjourned sine die not later than five o'clock p.m. on the last Friday in May of each year. The Leg…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 27 Section 27
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The Legislature shall hold regular annual sessions as herein provided, but this shall not prevent the calling of special sessions of the Legislature by the Governor. Section 27A.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 28 Section 28
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The Senate shall, at the beginning of each regular session and at such other times as may be necessary, elect one of its members President pro tempore, who shall preside over its deliberations in the absence or place of the Lieutenant Governor; and the Senate shall provide for al…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 29 Section 29
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The House of Representatives shall, at the beginning of each regular session and at such other times as may be necessary, elect one of its members Speaker.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 30 Section 30
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Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in …
Okla. Const. art. V, § 31 Section 31
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In all elections made by the Legislature, except for officers and employees thereof, the members thereof shall vote yea or nay, and each vote shall be entered upon the journal.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 32 Section 32
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No special or local law shall be considered by the Legislature until notice of the intended introduction of such bill or bills shall first have been published for four consecutive weeks in some weekly newspaper published or of general circulation in the city or county affected by…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 34 Section 34
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Every bill shall be read on three different days in each House, and no bill shall become a law unless, on its final passage, it be read at length, and no law shall be passed unless upon a vote of a majority of all the members elected to each House in favor of such law; and the qu…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 35 Section 35
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The presiding officer of each House shall, in the presence of the House over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature, immediately after the same shall have been publicly read at length, and the fact of reading and signing shall be entered…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 36 Section 36
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The authority of the Legislature shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, and any specific grant of authority in this Constitution, upon any subject whatsoever, shall not work a restriction, limitation, or exclusion of such authority upon the same or any other subjec…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 37 Section 37
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The Legislature shall have the power to establish a state printing plant, and to provide for the election or appointment of a State Printer.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 38 Section 38
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The Legislature shall provide for the establishment of a State Geological and Economic Survey.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 39 Section 39
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The Legislature shall create a Board of Health, Board of Dentistry, Board of Pharmacy, and Pure Food Commission, and prescribe the duties of each. All physicians, dentists and pharmacists now legally registered and practicing in Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall be eligible to …
Okla. Const. art. V, § 40 Section 40
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The Legislature shall provide for organizing, disciplining, arming, maintaining, and equipping the Militia of the State.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 41 Section 41
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The Legislature may enact laws authorizing cities to pension meritorious and disabled firemen.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 42 Section 42
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In any legislative investigation, either House of the Legislature, or any committee thereof, duly authorized by the House creating the same, shall have power to punish as for contempt, disobedience of process, or contumacious or disorderly conduct, and this provision shall also a…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 43 Section 43
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The Legislature shall, in the year nineteen hundred and nine and each ten years thereafter, make provision by law for revising, digesting, and promulgating the statutes of the State.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 44 Section 44
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The Legislature shall define what is an unlawful combination, monopoly, trust, act, or agreement, in restraint of trade, and enact laws to punish persons engaged in any unlawful combination, monopoly, trust, act, or agreement, in restraint of trade, or composing any such monopoly…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 45 Section 45
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The Legislature shall pass such laws as are necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Constitution.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 46 Section 46
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The Legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law authorizing:
Okla. Const. art. V, § 47 Section 47
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The Legislature shall not retire any officer on pay or part pay, or make any grant to such retiring officer.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 48 Section 48
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The Legislature shall have no power to appropriate any of the public money for the establishment and maintenance of a Bureau of Immigration in this State.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 49 Section 49
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The Legislature shall not increase the number or emolument of its employees, or the employees of either House, except by general law, which shall not take effect during the term at which such increase was made.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 50 Section 50
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The Legislature shall pass no law exempting any property withis this State from taxation, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 51 Section 51
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The Legislature shall pass no law granting to any association, corporation, or individual any exclusive rights, privileges, or immunities within this State.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 52 Section 52
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The Legislature shall have no power to revive any right or remedy which may have become barred by lapse of time, or by any statute of this State. After suit has been commenced on any cause of action, the Legislature shall have no power to take away such cause of action, or destro…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 53 Section 53
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Except as to tax and assessment charges against real property remaining delinquent and unpaid for a period of time as long or longer than that provided by law to authorize the taking title to real property by prescription, the Legislature shall have no power to release or extingu…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 54 Section 54
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The repeal of a statute shall not revive a statute previously repealed by such statute, nor shall such repeal affect any accrued right, or penalty incurred, or proceedings begun by virtue of such repealed statute.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 55 Section 55
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No money shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this State, nor any of its funds, nor any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law, nor unless such payments be made within two and one-half years after the passage of such appropriation a…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 56 Section 56
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The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the State, and for interest on the public debt. The salary of no officer or employee of the State, or any subdivision thereof, shall…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 57 Section 57
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Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes; and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provision…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 58 Section 58
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No act shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was passed, except enactments for carrying into effect provisions relating to the initiative and referendum, or a general appropriation bill, unless, in case of emergency, to be expressed …
Okla. Const. art. V, § 59 Section 59
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Laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the State, and where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 60 Section 60
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The Legislature shall provide by law for the establishment and maintenace of an efficient system of checks and balances between the officers of the Executive Department, and all commissioners and superintendents, and boards of control of State institutions, and all other officers…