Michigan Constitution
Article IV - LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
§ 16 Legislature; officers, rules of procedure, expulsion of members.

Universal Citation: MI Const art IV § 16

Sec. 16. Each house, except as otherwise provided in this constitution, shall choose its own officers and determine the rules of its proceedings, but shall not adopt any rule that will prevent a majority of the members elected thereto and serving therein from discharging a committee from the further consideration of any measure. Each house shall be the sole judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its members, and may, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected thereto and serving therein, expel a member. The reasons for such expulsion shall be entered in the journal, with the votes and names of the members voting upon the question. No member shall be expelled a second time for the same cause.

History: Const. 1963, Art. IV, § 16, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964.

Former constitution: See Const. 1908, Art. V, § 15.

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