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CONSTITUTION OF 1867
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PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
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tached to, and published with the Laws,
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after each regular Session of the General
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Assembly.
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Sec. 33. The General Assembly shall not
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Section 3.22. General Application of Laws.
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pass local, or special Laws, in any of the
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The General Assembly shall enact no pub-
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following enumerated cases, viz.: For ex-
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lic laws except general laws which in their
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tending the time for the collection of taxes;
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terms and effects apply throughout the State.
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granting divorces; changing the name of
any person; providing for >the sale of real
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No county shall be exempt from a public
general law. The limitation of this section
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estate, belonging to minors, or other persons
laboring under legal disabilities, by execu-
tors, administrators, guardians or trustees;
giving effect to informal, or invalid deeds
or wills; refunding money paid into the
State Treasury, or releasing persons from
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that the General Assembly shall enact only
public general laws shall not apply *o laws
(1) pertaining to appropriations; (2) pro-
viding for or regulating the powers of
departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of
the State which perform a state and not a lo-
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their debts, or obligations to the State,
unless recommended by the Governor, or
officers of the Treasury Department. And
the General Assembly shall pass no special
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cal function; (3) pertaining to public educa-
tion; (4) pertaining to multi-county govern-
mental units; (5) providing for the
establishment, merger, or dissolution of coun-
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Law, for any case, for which provision has
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ties or for the alteration of their boundaries;
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been made, by an existing General Law.
The General Assembly, at its first Session
after the adoption of this Constitution,
shall pass General Laws, providing for the
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(6) granting, limiting, or withdrawing the
taxing powers of a county or counties; or
(7) empowering a county or counties, sub-
ject to any standards that the General As-
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cases enumerated in this section, which
are not already adequately provided for,
and for all other cases, where a General
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sembly may provide by law, to exercise any
power or perform any function denied to
other counties. This section shall not be
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Law can be made applicable.
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construed to limit any power of the General
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Assembly, otherwise existing under this Con-
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stitution, to enact special laws, except that a
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special law shall not be enacted for any situa-
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tion for which an existing general law is ap-
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plicable.
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See Section 7.04, Powers of Counties, p. 89.
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Sec. 34. No debt shall be hereafter con-
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Section 6.06. State Indebtedness.
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tracted by the General Assembly unless
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The State shall have the power to incur in-
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such debt shall be authorized by a Law
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debtedness for any public purpose in the
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providing for the collection of an annual
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manner and upon the terms and conditions
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tax, or taxes, sufficient to pay the interest
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that the General Assembly may prescribe by
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on such debt as it falls due, and also
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law. Unless the law authorizing the creation
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to discharge the principal thereof within
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of an obligation includes an irrevocable
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fifteen years from the time of con-
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pledge of the full faith and credit of the
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tracting the same; and the taxes laid for
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State, the obligation shall not be considered
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this purpose shall not be repealed or ap-
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an indebtedness of the State and the terms
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plied to any other object until the said
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of this section shall not apply. If the law in-
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debt and interest thereon shall be fully
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cludes such a pledge the obligation shall be
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discharged. The credit of the State shall
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secured by the unlimited taxing power of the
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not in any manner be given, or loaned to,
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State and shall be subject to the terms of
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or in aid of any individual, association or
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this section. If at any time the General As-
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corporation; nor shall the General Assembly
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sembly shall have failed to appropriate and to
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have the power in any mode to involve
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make available sufficient funds to provide lor
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the State in the construction of Works of
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the timely payment of the interest and prin-
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Internal Improvement, nor in granting any
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cipal then due upon all state indebtedness, it
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aid thereto, which shall involve the faith
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shall be the duty of the comptroller to pay,
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or credit of the State; nor make any appro-
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or to make available for payment, to tine
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priation therefor, except in aid of the con-
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holders of such indebtedness from the first
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