Nebraska Constitution

• I-0 - Preamble
• I-1 - Statement of rights.
• I-2 - Slavery prohibited.
• I-3 - Due process of law; equal protection.
• I-4 - Religious freedom.
• I-5 - Freedom of speech and press.
• I-6 - Trial by jury.
• I-7 - Search and seizure.
• I-8 - Habeas corpus.
• I-9 - Bail; fines; imprisonment; cruel and unusual punishment.
• I-10 - Presentment or indictment by grand jury; information.
• I-11 - Rights of Accused.
• I-12 - Evidence against self; double jeopardy.
• I-13 - Justice administered without delay; Legislature; authorization to enforce mediation and arbitration.
• I-14 - Treason.
• I-15 - Penalties; corruption of blood; transporting out of state prohibited.
• I-16 - Bill of attainder; retroactive laws; contracts; special privileges.
• I-17 - Military subordinate.
• I-18 - Soldiers quarters.
• I-19 - Right of peaceable assembly and to petition government.
• I-20 - Imprisonment for debt prohibited.
• I-21 - Private property compensated for.
• I-22 - Elections to be free.
• I-23 - Capital cases; right of direct appeal; effect; other cases; right of appeal.
• I-24 - Repealed 1990. Laws 1990, LR 8, sec. 1.
• I-25 - Rights of property; no discrimination; aliens.
• I-26 - Powers retained by people.
• I-27 - English language to be official.
• I-28 - Crime victims; rights enumerated; effect; Legislature; duties.
• I-29 - Marriage; same-sex relationships not valid or recognized.
• II-1 - Legislative, executive, judicial.
• III-1 - Legislative authority; how vested; power of initiative; power of referendum.
• III-2 - First power reserved; initiative.
• III-3 - Second power reserved; referendum.
• III-4 - Initiative or referendum; signatures required; veto; election returns; constitutional amendments; non-partisan ballot.
• III-5 - Legislative districts; apportionment; redistricting, when required.
• III-6 - Legislature; number of members; annual sessions.
• III-7 - Legislators; terms; effect of redistricting; election; salary; expenses; mileage.
• III-8 - Legislators; qualifications; one-year residence in district; removal from district, effect.
• III-9 - Legislators; disqualifications; election to other office; resignation required.
• III-10 - Legislative sessions; time; quorum; rules of procedure; expulsion of members; disrespectful behavior, penalty.
• III-11 - Legislative journal; vote viva voce; open doors; committee votes.
• III-12 - Legislators; terms; limitation.
• III-13 - Style of bills; majority necessary to passage; yeas and nays entered on journal.
• III-14 - Bills and resolutions read by title; printing; vote for final passage; bills to contain one subject; amended section to be set forth; signing of bills.
• III-15 - Members privileged from arrest.
• III-16 - Members of the Legislature and state officers; conflicts of interest; standards for.
• III-17 - Impeachment; procedure.
• III-18 - Local or special laws prohibited.
• III-19 - Compensation; increase when; extra compensation to public officers and contractors prohibited; retirement benefits; adjustment.
• III-20 - Salt springs, coal, oil, minerals; alienation prohibited.
• III-21 - Donation of state lands prohibited; when.
• III-22 - Appropriations for state; deficiencies; bills for pay of members and officials.
• III-23 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 302, sec. 1.
• III-24 - Games of chance, lotteries, and gift enterprises; restrictions; parimutuel wagering on horseraces; bingo games; use of state lottery proceeds.
• III-25 - Incidental expenses of state officers; specific appropriations always necessary; warrants for money.
• III-26 - Privilege of members.
• III-27 - Acts take effect after three months; emergency bills; session laws.
• III-28 - Repealed 1934. Initiative Measure No. 330.
• III-29 - Legislative authority in emergencies due to enemy attack upon United States.
• III-30 - Legislature to pass necessary laws.
• IV-1 - Executive departments; officers; when elected; terms; eligibility; books to be kept at seat of government; residence of officers; heads of departments; appointments.
• IV-2 - Governor; Lieutenant Governor; eligibility; qualifications; appointive officers, ineligible for other office.
• IV-3 - Treasurer; ineligibility.
• IV-4 - Election returns; canvass by Legislature; conduct of election contests.
• IV-5 - Impeachment.
• IV-6 - Supreme executive power.
• IV-7 - Message by Governor; budget; contents; budget bill; preparation; appropriations not to be in excess of budget; exception; excess subject to veto.
• IV-8 - Special sessions.
• IV-9 - Repealed 1934. Initiative Measure No. 330.
• IV-10 - Governor to appoint officers; removal.
• IV-11 - Elected state officer; vacation of office; Governor fill by appointment; term.
• IV-12 - Nonelective state officers; vacation; Governor; fill the office by appointment; approval by Legislature.
• IV-13 - Board of parole; members; powers; reprieves; proceedings; power to pardon; limitations.
• IV-14 - Governor to be commander-in-chief of militia.
• IV-15 - Bills to be presented to Governor; approval; procedure; disapproval or reduction of items of appropriation; passage despite disapproval or reduction.
• IV-16 - Order of succession to become Governor; Lieutenant Governor; duties.
• IV-17 - Repealed 1934. Initiative Measure No. 330.
• IV-18 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 302, sec. 1.
• IV-19 - State institutions; management, control, and government; determination by Legislature.
• IV-20 - Public Service Commission; membership; terms; powers.
• IV-21 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 302, sec. 1.
• IV-22 - Executive officials to keep accounts; reports; false reports, penalty.
• IV-23 - Executive officials and heads of institutions; reports to Legislature; information from expending agencies.
• IV-24 - Great seal.
• IV-25 - Salaries of officials; fees.
• IV-26 - Officials to give bonds.
• IV-27 - Executive offices; creation of.
• IV-28 - Tax Equalization and Review Commission; members; powers; Tax Commissioner; powers.
• V-1 - Power vested in courts; Chief Justice; powers.
• V-2 - Supreme Court; number of judges; quorum; jurisdiction; retired judges, temporary duty; court divisions; assignments by Chief Justice.
• V-3 - Terms of Supreme Court.
• V-4 - Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court; selection; residence; location of offices.
• V-5 - Supreme Court judicial districts; redistricting; when.
• V-6 - Chief Justice to preside.
• V-7 - Chief Justice; Associate Justices; qualifications.
• V-8 - Supreme Court appoint staff; budget; copyright of state reports.
• V-9 - District courts; jurisdiction; felons may plead guilty; sentence.
• V-10 - District court judicial districts.
• V-11 - District court judges; change of number; boundaries.
• V-12 - District court judges may hold court for each other; retired judges, temporary duty.
• V-13 - Supreme and district judges; salaries.
• V-14 - Supreme and district judges not to act as attorneys; judge not to practice law, when.
• V-15 - Repealed 1970. Laws 1969, c. 419, sec. 1(2) p. 1432.
• V-16 - Repealed 1970. Laws 1969, c. 419, sec. 1(2) p. 1432.
• V-17 - Repealed 1970. Laws 1969, c. 419, sec. 1(2) p. 1432.
• V-18 - Repealed 1970. Laws 1969, c. 419, sec. 1(2) p. 1432.
• V-19 - Practice of all courts to be uniform.
• V-20 - Officers in this Article; tenure; residence; duties; compensation.
• V-21 - Merit plan for selection of judges; terms of office; filling of vacancies; procedure; voting for nominee.
• V-22 - State may sue and be sued.
• V-23 - Jurisdiction of judges at chambers.
• V-24 - Style of process.
• V-25 - Supreme Court to promulgate rules of practice; to make recommendations to Legislature.
• V-26 - Proviso as to effect of amendment.
• V-27 - Juvenile courts; authorization.
• V-28 - Commission on Judicial Qualifications; appointment; composition; qualifications.
• V-29 - Commission on Judicial Qualifications; vote of majority required for action.
• V-30 - Judges; discipline; removal from office; grounds; procedure.
• V-31 - Judges; procedure for removal from office cumulative.
• VI-1 - Qualifications of electors.
• VI-2 - Who disqualified.
• VI-3 - Military or naval service; place and manner of voting.
• VI-4 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 339, sec. 1.
• VI-5 - Electors; privileged from arrest.
• VI-6 - Votes, how cast.
• VII-1 - Legislature; free instruction in common schools; provide.
• VII-2 - State Department of Education; general supervision of school system.
• VII-3 - State Board of Education; members; election; manner of election; term of office.
• VII-4 - State Board of Education; Commissioner of Education; appointment; powers and duties.
• VII-5 - Fines, penalties, and license money; allocation; use of forfeited conveyances.
• VII-6 - Educational lands; management; Board of Educational Lands and Funds; members; appointment; sale of lands.
• VII-7 - Perpetual funds enumerated.
• VII-8 - Trust funds belong to state for educational purposes; use; investment.
• VII-9 - Educational funds; trust funds; use of.
• VII-10 - University of Nebraska; government; Board of Regents; election; student membership; terms.
• VII-11 - Appropriation of public funds; handicapped children; sectarian instruction; religious test of teacher or student.
• VII-12 - Education and reform of minors.
• VII-13 - State colleges; government; board; name; selection; duties; compensation.
• VII-14 - Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; membership; powers and duties; coordination, defined.
• VII-15 - Omitted.
• VII-16 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1.
• VII-17 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1.
• VIII-1 - Revenue; raised by taxation; legislative powers.
• VIII-2 - Exemption of property from taxation; classification.
• VIII-3 - Redemption from sales of real estate for taxes.
• VIII-4 - Legislature has no power to remit taxes; exception; cancellation of taxes on land acquired by the state.
• VIII-5 - County taxes; limitation.
• VIII-6 - Local improvements of cities, towns and villages.
• VIII-7 - Private property not liable for corporate debts; municipalities and inhabitants exempt for corporate purposes.
• VIII-8 - Funding indebtedness; warrants.
• VIII-9 - Claims upon treasury; adjustment; approval; appeal.
• VIII-10 - Taxation of grain and seed; alternative basis permitted.
• VIII-11 - Public corporations and political subdivisions providing electricity; payment in lieu of taxes.
• VIII-12 - Cities or villages; redevelopment project; substandard and blighted property; incur indebtedness; taxes; how treated.
• VIII-13 - Revenue laws and legislative acts; how construed.
• VIII-1A - Levy of property tax for state purposes; prohibition.
• VIII-1B - Income tax; may be based upon the laws of the United States.
• VIII-2A - Exemption of personal property in transit in licensed warehouses or storage areas.
• IX-1 - Area.
• IX-2 - Division of county; decision of question.
• IX-3 - County added to another; prior indebtedness; county stricken off; liabilities.
• IX-4 - County and township officers.
• IX-5 - Township organization.
• X-1 - Reports under oath.
• X-2 - Property liable to sale on execution.
• X-3 - Consolidation of stock or property.
• X-4 - Railways declared public highways; maximum rates; liability not limited.
• X-5 - Capital stock; dividends.
• X-6 - Eminent domain.
• X-7 - Unjust discrimination and extortion.
• X-8 - Eminent domain for depot or other uses.
• XI-1 - Subscription to stock prohibited.
• XI-2 - City of 5,000 may frame charter; procedure.
• XI-3 - Rejection of charter; effect; procedure to frame new charter.
• XI-4 - Charter; amendment; charter convention.
• XI-5 - Charter of city of 100,000; home rule charter authorized.
• XII-1 - Legislature to provide for organization, regulation, and supervision of corporations and associations; limitation; elections for directors or managers; voting rights of stockholders.
• XII-2 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 762, sec. 1.
• XII-3 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 762, sec. 1.
• XII-4 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 762, sec. 1.
• XII-5 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 762, sec. 1.
• XII-6 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 762, sec. 1.
• XII-7 - Repealed 1938. Laws 1937, c. 18, sec. 1, p. 124.
• XII-8 - Corporation acquiring an interest in real estate used for farming or ranching or engaging in farming or ranching; restrictions; Secretary of State, Attorney General; duties; Legislature; powers.
• XIII-1 - State may contract debts; limitation; exceptions.
• XIII-2 - Industrial and economic development; powers of counties and municipalities.
• XIII-3 - Credit of state; exception.
• XIV-1 - Personnel; organization; discipline.
• XV-1 - Official oath; refusal; disqualification.
• XV-2 - Official in default as collector and custodian of public money or property; disqualification; felon disqualified.
• XV-3 - Repealed 1986. Laws 1986, LR 318, sec. 1.
• XV-4 - Water a public necessity.
• XV-5 - Use of water dedicated to people.
• XV-6 - Right to divert unappropriated waters.
• XV-7 - Use of water for power purposes.
• XV-8 - Employment of women and children; minimum wage.
• XV-9 - Controversies between employers and employees; industrial commission; appeals.
• XV-10 - Repealed 1934. Laws 1933, c. 94, sec. 1, p. 376.
• XV-11 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 502, sec. 1.
• XV-12 - Removal of state capital.
• XV-13 - Labor organizations; no denial of employment; closed shop not permitted.
• XV-14 - Labor organization; definition.
• XV-15 - Labor organizations; amendment self-executing; laws to facilitate operation permitted.
• XV-16 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 688, sec. 1.
• XV-17 - Retirement and pension funds; investment.
• XV-18 - Governmental powers and functions; intergovernmental cooperation; Legislature may limit; merger or consolidation of counties or other local governments authorized.
• XV-19 - Liquor licenses; municipalities and counties; powers.
• XV-20 - Omitted.
• XV-21 - Omitted.
• XV-22 - Omitted.
• XV-23 - Omitted.
• XV-24 - Omitted.
• XVI-1 - How Proposed.
• XVI-2 - Convention.
• XVII-1 - Terms; reference to members of the Legislature to include appointed and elected members.
• XVII-2 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1.
• XVII-3 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1.
• XVII-4 - General election of state.
• XVII-5 - Terms of office of all elected officers.
• XVII-6 - Transferred to Article III, section 30, Constitution of Nebraska.
• XVII-7 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1.
• XVII-8 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1.
• XVII-9 - Repealed 1998. Laws 1997, LR 17CA, sec. 3.
• XVII-10 - Sec. 10. (Failed to carry at election.)
• XVII-11 - Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1.
• XVIII-1 - Statement of intent.
• XVIII-2 - Instruction to members of congressional delegation; ballot notation; when.
• XVIII-3 - Nonincumbent candidates; Term Limits Pledge; ballot notation; when.
• XVIII-4 - Instruction to members of the Legislature; ballot notation; when.
• XVIII-5 - Ballot notation; Secretary of State; duties; appeal.
• XVIII-6 - Automatic repeal; when.
• XVIII-7 - Legal challenge; jurisdiction.
• XVIII-8 - Severability.