Michigan StatutesCONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - STATE CONSTITUTION (Article I § 1 - § 0)
- CONSTITUTION-I - ARTICLE I DECLARATION OF RIGHTS (Article I § 1...§ 27)
- CONSTITUTION-II - ARTICLE II ELECTIONS (Article II § 1...§ 10)
- CONSTITUTION-III - ARTICLE III GENERAL GOVERNMENT (Article III § 1...§ 8)
- CONSTITUTION-IV - ARTICLE IV LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (Article IV § 1...§ 54)
- Article IV § 1 - Legislative power.
- Article IV § 2 - Senators, number, term.
- Article IV § 3 - Representatives, number, term; contiguity of districts.
- Article IV § 4 - Annexation or merger with a city.
- Article IV § 5 - Island areas, contiguity.
- Article IV § 6 - Commission on legislative apportionment.
- Article IV § 7 - Legislators; qualifications, removal from district.
- Article IV § 8 - Ineligibility of government officers and employees.
- Article IV § 9 - Civil appointments, ineligibility of legislators.
- Article IV § 10 - Legislators and state officers, government contracts, conflict of interest.
- Article IV § 11 - Legislators privileged from civil arrest and civil process; limitation; questioning for speech in either house prohibited.
- Article IV § 12 - State officers compensation commission.
- Article IV § 13 - Legislature; time of convening, sine die adjournment, measures carried over.
- Article IV § 14 - Quorum; powers of less than quorum.
- Article IV § 15 - Legislative council.
- Article IV § 16 - Legislature; officers, rules of procedure, expulsion of members.
- Article IV § 17 - Committees; record of votes, public inspection, notice of hearings.
- Article IV § 18 - Journal of proceedings; record of votes, dissents.
- Article IV § 19 - Record of votes on elections and advice and consent.
- Article IV § 20 - Open meetings.
- Article IV § 21 - Adjournments, limitations.
- Article IV § 22 - Bills.
- Article IV § 23 - Style of laws.
- Article IV § 24 - Laws; object, title, amendments changing purpose.
- Article IV § 25 - Revision and amendment of laws; title references, publication of entire sections.
- Article IV § 26 - Bills; printing, possession, reading, vote on passage.
- Article IV § 27 - Laws, effective date.
- Article IV § 28 - Bills, subjects at special session.
- Article IV § 29 - Local or special acts.
- Article IV § 30 - Appropriations; local or private purposes.
- Article IV § 31 - General appropriation bills; priority, statement of estimated revenue.
- Article IV § 32 - Laws imposing taxes.
- Article IV § 33 - Bills passed; approval by governor or veto, reconsideration by legislature.
- Article IV § 34 - Bills, referendum.
- Article IV § 35 - Publication and distribution of laws and judicial decisions.
- Article IV § 36 - General revision of laws; compilation of laws.
- Article IV § 37 - Administrative rules, suspension by legislative committee.
- Article IV § 38 - Vacancies in office.
- Article IV § 39 - Continuity of government in emergencies.
- Article IV § 40 - Alcoholic beverages; age requirement; liquor control commission; excise tax; local option.
- Article IV § 41 - Lotteries.
- Article IV § 42 - Ports and port districts; incorporation, internal.
- Article IV § 43 - Bank and trust company laws.
- Article IV § 44 - Trial by jury in civil cases.
- Article IV § 45 - Indeterminate sentences.
- Article IV § 46 - Death penalty.
- Article IV § 47 - Chaplains in state institutions.
- Article IV § 48 - Disputes concerning public employees.
- Article IV § 49 - Hours and conditions of employment.
- Article IV § 50 - Atomic and new forms of energy.
- Article IV § 51 - Public health and general welfare.
- Article IV § 52 - Natural resources; conservation, pollution, impairment, destruction.
- Article IV § 53 - Auditor general; appointment, qualifications, term, removal, post audits.
- Article IV § 54 - Limitations on terms of office of state legislators.
- CONSTITUTION-IX - ARTICLE IX FINANCE AND TAXATION (Article IX § 1...§ 42)
- CONSTITUTION-SCHEDULE - ARTICLE SCHEDULE SCHEDULE AND TEMPORARY PROVISIONS
- Schedule § 1 - Recommendations by attorney general for changes in laws.
- Schedule § 2 - Existing public and private rights, continuance.
- Schedule § 3 - Officers, continuance in office.
- Schedule § 4 - Officers elected in spring of 1963, term.
- Schedule § 5 - State elective executive officers and senators, 2 and 4 year terms.
- Schedule § 6 - Supreme court, reduction to 7 justices.
- Schedule § 7 - Judges of probate, eligibility for re-election.
- Schedule § 8 - Judicial officers, staggered terms.
- Schedule § 9 - State board of education; first election, terms.
- Schedule § 10 - Boards controlling higher education institutions and state board of public community and junior colleges, terms.
- Schedule § 11 - Michigan State University trustees and Wayne State University governors, terms.
- Schedule § 12 - Initial allocation of departments by law or executive order.
- Schedule § 13 - State contracts, continuance.
- Schedule § 14 - Mackinac Bridge Authority; refunding of bonds, transfer of functions to highway department.
- Schedule § 15 - Submission of constitution; time, notice.
- Schedule § 16 - Voters, ballots, effective date.
- Schedule SigBlock - Vote Record.
- CONSTITUTION-V - ARTICLE V EXECUTIVE BRANCH (Article V § 1...§ 30)
- Article V § 1 - Executive power.
- Article V § 2 - Principal departments.
- Article V § 3 - Single heads of departments; appointment, term.
- Article V § 4 - Commissions or agencies for less than 2 years.
- Article V § 5 - Examining or licensing board members, qualifications.
- Article V § 6 - Advice and consent to appointments.
- Article V § 7 - Vacancies in office; filling, senatorial disapproval of appointees.
- Article V § 8 - Principal departments, supervision of governor; information from state officers.
- Article V § 9 - Principal departments, location.
- Article V § 10 - Removal or suspension of officers; grounds, report.
- Article V § 11 - Provisional appointments to fill vacancies due to suspension.
- Article V § 12 - Military powers.
- Article V § 13 - Elections to fill vacancies in legislature.
- Article V § 14 - Reprieves, commutations and pardons.
- Article V § 15 - Extra sessions of legislature.
- Article V § 16 - Legislature other than at seat of government.
- Article V § 17 - Messages and recommendations to legislature.
- Article V § 18 - Budget; general and deficiency appropriation bills.
- Article V § 19 - Disapproval of items in appropriation bills.
- Article V § 20 - Reductions in expenditures.
- Article V § 21 - State elective executive officers; term, election.
- Article V § 22 - Governor and lieutenant governor, qualifications.
- Article V § 23 - State elective executive officers, compensation.
- Article V § 24 - Executive residence.
- Article V § 25 - Lieutenant governor; president of senate, tie vote, duties.
- Article V § 26 - Succession to governorship.
- Article V § 27 - Salary of successor.
- Article V § 28 - State transportation commission; establishment; purpose; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; director of state transportation department.
- Article V § 29 - Civil rights commission; members, term, duties, appropriation.
- Article V § 30 - Limitations on terms of executive officers.
- CONSTITUTION-VI - ARTICLE VI JUDICIAL BRANCH (Article VI § 1...§ 30)
- Article VI § 1 - Judicial power in court of justice; divisions.
- Article VI § 2 - Justices of the supreme court; number, term, nomination, election.
- Article VI § 3 - Chief justice; court administrator; other assistants.
- Article VI § 4 - General superintending control over courts; writs; appellate jurisdiction.
- Article VI § 5 - Court rules; distinctions between law and equity; master in chancery.
- Article VI § 6 - Decisions and dissents; writing, contents.
- Article VI § 7 - Staff; budget; salaries of justices; fees.
- Article VI § 8 - Court of appeals; election of judges, divisions.
- Article VI § 9 - Judges of court of appeals, terms.
- Article VI § 10 - Jurisdiction, practice and procedure of court of appeals.
- Article VI § 11 - Circuit courts; judicial circuits, sessions, number of judges.
- Article VI § 12 - Circuit judges; nomination, election, term.
- Article VI § 13 - Circuit courts; jurisdiction, writs, supervisory control over inferior courts.
- Article VI § 14 - County clerks; duties, vacancies; prosecuting attorneys, vacancies.
- Article VI § 15 - Probate courts; districts, jurisdiction.
- Article VI § 16 - Probate judges; nomination, election, terms.
- Article VI § 17 - Judicial salaries and fees.
- Article VI § 18 - Salaries; uniformity, changes during term.
- Article VI § 19 - Courts of record; seal, qualifications of judges.
- Article VI § 20 - Removal of domicile of judge.
- Article VI § 21 - Ineligibility for other office.
- Article VI § 22 - Incumbent judges, affidavit of candidacy.
- Article VI § 23 - Judicial vacancies, filling; appointee, term; successor; new offices.
- Article VI § 24 - Incumbent judges, ballot designation.
- Article VI § 25 - Removal of judges from office.
- Article VI § 26 - Circuit court commissioners and justices of the peace, abolition; courts of limited jurisdiction.
- Article VI § 27 - Power of appointment to public office.
- Article VI § 28 - Administrative action, review.
- Article VI § 29 - Conservators of the peace.
- Article VI § 30 - Judicial tenure commission; selection; terms; duties; power of supreme court.
- CONSTITUTION-VII - ARTICLE VII LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Article VII § 1...§ 34)
- Article VII § 1 - Counties; corporate character, powers and immunities.
- Article VII § 2 - County charters.
- Article VII § 3 - Reduction of size of county.
- Article VII § 4 - County officers; terms, combination.
- Article VII § 5 - Offices at county seat.
- Article VII § 6 - Sheriffs; security, responsibility for acts, ineligibility for other office.
- Article VII § 7 - Boards of supervisors; members.
- Article VII § 8 - Legislative, administrative, and other powers and duties of boards.
- Article VII § 9 - Compensation of county officers.
- Article VII § 10 - Removal of county seat.
- Article VII § 11 - Indebtedness, limitation.
- Article VII § 12 - Navigable streams, permission to bridge or dam.
- Article VII § 13 - Consolidation of counties, approval by electors.
- Article VII § 14 - Organization and consolidation of townships.
- Article VII § 15 - County intervention in public utility service and rate proceedings.
- Article VII § 16 - Highways, bridges, culverts, airports; road tax limitation.
- Article VII § 17 - Townships; corporate character, powers and immunities.
- Article VII § 18 - Township officers; term, powers and duties.
- Article VII § 19 - Township public utility franchises.
- Article VII § 20 - Townships, dissolution; villages as cities.
- Article VII § 21 - Cities and villages; incorporation, taxes, indebtedness.
- Article VII § 22 - Charters, resolutions, ordinances; enumeration of powers.
- Article VII § 23 - Parks, boulevards, cemeteries, hospitals.
- Article VII § 24 - Public service facilities.
- Article VII § 25 - Public utilities; acquisition, franchises, sale.
- Article VII § 26 - Cities and villages, loan of credit.
- Article VII § 27 - Metropolitan governments and authorities.
- Article VII § 28 - Governmental functions and powers; joint administration, costs and credits, transfers.
- Article VII § 29 - Highways, streets, alleys, public places; control, use by public utilities.
- Article VII § 30 - Franchises and licenses, duration.
- Article VII § 31 - Vacation or alteration of roads, streets, alleys, public places.
- Article VII § 32 - Budgets, public hearing.
- Article VII § 33 - Removal of elected officers.
- Article VII § 34 - Construction of constitution and law concerning counties, townships, cities, villages.
- CONSTITUTION-VIII - ARTICLE VIII EDUCATION (Article VIII § 1...§ 9)
- CONSTITUTION-X - ARTICLE X PROPERTY (Article X § 1...§ 6)
- CONSTITUTION-XI - ARTICLE XI PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYMENT (Article XI § 1...§ 7)
- CONSTITUTION-XII - ARTICLE XII AMENDMENT AND REVISION (Article XII § 1...§ 4)