Section V-23

Section V-23: Ineligibility to appointment to office - Interest in contracts.

  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 receive any appointment from the
Governor, the Governor and Senate, or from the Legislature,
during the term for which he shall have been elected, nor shall
any member, during the term for which he shall have been elected,
or within two years thereafter, be interested, directly or
indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county or
other subdivision thereof, authorized by law passed during the
term for which he shall have been elected.