Manual of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia, 1959-1960

THE LIBRARIES
THE
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
MANUAL
of the
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
of
The State of Georgia
1959 I960
Compiled by
BEN W FORTSON JR
Secretary of State
STATE OFFICERS
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT State Capitol Room 203
S Ernest Vandiver Governor
Mrs Christine D Johnson Confidential Secretary
Peter Zack Geer Executive Secretary
Henry G Neal Asst Attorney General
Dolly Azar Receptionist
LIEUTENANTGOVERNOR State Capitol Room 321 Garland T Byrd LieutenantGovernor Mrs Shirley B Johnson Secretary
SECRETARY OF STATE State Capitol Room 214
Ben W Fortson Jr Secretary of State
Joe N Burton Assistant to the Secretary of State
Cecil L Clifton Joint Secretary State Examining Boards
COMPTROLLERGENERAL State Capitol Room 238 Zack D Cravey ComptrollerGeneral Hubert McDonald Assistant ComptrollerGeneral F E Robinson State Fire Marshal Ralph R Cadle Deputy Industrial Loan Commissioner
LAW DEPARTMENT Judicial Building Room 132 Eugene Cook Attorney General Assistant Attorneys General
Joe S Champion John Edward Dean Carter Goode
A Frank Grimsley G Hughel Harrison A J Hartley Douglas King Paul Miller Lamar L Murdaugh Henry G Neal
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J R Parham Ezekiel J Summerour Joel S Thwaites John B White John L York
Deputy Assistant Attorneys General
Ariel V Conlin Bruce Dubberly Jr
John T Ferguson Robert Hall Rubye G Jackson Ben F Johnson Jr
Louis F McDonald Broadus B Zellars
TREASURY DEPARTMENT State Capitol Room 245 George B Hamilton State Treasurer Horace Hixon Assistant State Treasurer
E L McCrory Cashier
EDUCATION State Department of Old State Office Bldg Room 233
Dr Claude L Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr C S Hubbard Asst State Superintendent of Schools
AGRICULTURE State Department of Agriculture Bldg Room 204 Phil Campbell Commissioner
LABOR State Department of Labor Bldg Room 288 Ben T Huiet Commissioner W A Clyde Assistant Commissioner Gus Stark Director Inspection Division Marion Williamson Director Employment Security Agency Elbert Forester Assistant Director
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION New State Office Bldg Room 162 Matt L McWhorter Chairman
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Allen Chappell ViceChairman Walter McDonald Commissioner Ben T Wiggins Commissioner Crawford L Pilcher Commissioner
A 0 Randall Executive Secretary
ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Department of 1516 Peachtree St N W
Mrs Mary Givens Bryan Director
AUDITS State Department of State Capitol Room 115
B E Thrasher Jr State Auditor
BANKING Department of State Capitol Room 122 A P Persons Superintendent of Banks W M Jackson Assistant Superintendent of Banks
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS State Capitol Washington St
Harold E Stodghill Building Engineer
CHEMIST State Agriculture Bldg Room 612 Harry S Johnson Jr State Chemist
COMMERCE State Department of State Capitol Room 100 Abit Massey Director
CONFEDERATE PENSION AND RECORD DEPARTMENT State Capitol Room 404
Miss Lillian Henderson Director
CORRECTIONS Department of State Capitol Room 415 Jack Forrester Director J B Hatchett Assistant Director Robert J Carter Chief Clerk M H Doyle Comptroller
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DEFENSE Department of P 0 Box 4839 Atlanta 2
MajGen George J Hearn The Adjutant General and Director Civil Defense Military Division
BrigGen Charlie F Camp Assi Adjutant General for Army
BrigGen Homer Flynn Asst Adjutant General for Air Civil Defense Division
Mr Jack L Grantham Deputy Director
ENTOMOLOGY Division of Agriculture Bldg Room 304
William E Blasingame Chief Entomologist
FORESTRY COMMISSION State Central office P O Box 1183 Macon Atlanta office Agriculture Building Room 218 H Guyton DeLoach Director and Executive Secretary L A Hargreaves Jr Assistant Director J C Turner Jr Chief of Fire Control W H McComb Chief of Forest Management George Bishop Chief of Forest Administration Frank Craven Chief of Information and Education Lester L Lundy Chief of General Services Sanford P Darby Chief of Reforestation Henry Cannon Chief of Communications
GAME AND FISH State Department of State Capitol Room 401 Fulton Lovell Director
HEALTH Department of Public Old State Office Bldg Room 242 Dr T F Sellers Sr Director
HIGHWAY BOARD State 2 Capitol Square
James L Gillis Sr Chairman Robert H Jordan Member Willis N Harden Member Benton Odom Secretary and Treasurer
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL State Capitol Room 316
Frank H Edwards Legislative Counsel
LIBRARY State
Judicial Bldg Room 301
Miss Vera Jameson Associate State Librarian John D M Folger Assistant State Librarian
MERIT SYSTEM OF PERSONNEL
ADMINISTRATION State
New State Office Bldg Room 572 Edwin L Swain Director
MILK CONTROL COMMISSION Agriculture Bldg Room 220
C A Ward ChairmanDirector
MINES MINING AND GEOLOGY Department of Agriculture Bldg 4th Floor Garland Peyton Director Dr A S Furcron Chief Geologist Dr Vernon Hurst Geologist Dr L H Turner Chief Chemist
MUSEUM of Science and Industry Georgia State State Capitol 4th Floor Miss Annette McLean Director
OPERATIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Joint Committee on State Capitol Room 316 Geo L Smith II Chairman George D Stewart Secretary Garland T Byrd LtGov
Glenn W Ellard Senate Members
R C Brooks J Douglas Carlisle Clarence R Vaughn Jr
House Members
Edgar Blalock Frank S Cheatham Jr
Charles L Gowen
PARDON AND PAROLE BOARD State State Capitol Room 421
William H Kimbrough Chairman
Hugh C Carney Member
Mrs Rebecca L Garrett Member
E J Calhoun Jr Administrative Assistant
PARKS Department of State State Capitol Room 418
Charles Allen Collier Director
Henry D Struble Assistant to DirectorTreasurer
PERSONNEL BOARD State New State Office Bldg Room 572 J R Dunn Dr Hugh Goodwin Robert E Lee Jr
PHARMACY State Board of Agriculture Bldg Room 212214 P D Horkan Chief Drug Inspector
PROBATION State Board of State Capitol Room 435
William H Kimbrough Chairman Hugh C Carney Member Mrs Rebecca L Garrett Member Travis Stewart Director of Probation
PURCHASING DEPARTMENT State Capitol Room 142 Alvan C Gillem Supervisor of Purchases Porter Bunn Specification Analyst T B McDorman
S F Skrine J F Hough Andrew Fite Purchasing Agents
J L Brown Assistant Purchasing Agent
REGENTS Board ofOFFICERS New State Office Bldg Room 468 Robert 0 Arnold Chairman
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Freeman Strickland Vice Chairman
Harmon W Caldwell Chancellor
John E Sims Assistant to the Chancelloron leave
J H Dewberry Dir Plant Bus Operations
L R Siebert Executive Secretary
James A Blissit Treasurer
Dr John R Hills Director Testing and Guidance
REVENUE State Department of Old State Office Building Room 517 C Dixon Oxford Commissioner George E Sims Jr Deputy Commissioner R L Boyett Director Motor Fuel Tax Unit Gasoline Tax Refund Unit
Paul Bryant Director Alcohol Control Unit C G Campbell Director Property Tax Intangibles Tax Unit
Murray A Chappell Director Motor Vehicle License Unit F L Dillard Director Income Tax Unit J W D Harvey State Oil Chemist Director Fuel Oil Inspection Unit
E J Olmstead Director Sales Use Tax Unit J B Rhodes Director Miscellaneous Tax Unit B I Gilbert Personnel Officer W E Strickland Comptroller
Duke C Trexler Director Fraud Intelligence Unit
SAFETY Department of Public 959 E Confederate Ave SE P 0 Box 1456
Col William P Trotter Director Lt Col H L Conner Deputy Director Bureau of Investigation
Maj Delmar Jones Director
Lt B G Ragsdale Assistant Director in Charge of Identification
State Patrol
Maj R H Burson Commanding Officer
VETERANS SERVICE State Department of State Capitol Room 125 Peter Wheeler Director
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Fred Phillips Supervisor OntheJob Training and Supply Officer
Earl E Griffin Jr Supervisor Institutional Training and Personnel Officer
John W Heist Supervisor Claims Division Elmer Barfield Supervisor OntheFarm Training
WELFARE State Department of Public Old State Office Bldg Room 434 Alan Kemper Director Phil Cawthon Assistant Director
WORKMENS COMPENSATION State Board of Labor Bldg Room 494
William T Dean Chairman
W E Buckner Director
Roscoe Lowery Director
James C Pullin SecretaryTreasurer
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UNITED STATES SENATORS
Richard B Russell Winder Georgia
Herman Eugene Talmadge Love joy Georgia
UNITED STATES CONGRESSMEN
District 1 Prince H Preston Statesboro
2 J L Pilcher Meigs
3 E L Tic Forrester Leesburg
4 John J Flynt Jr Griffin
5 James C Davis Decatur
6 Carl Vinson Milledgeville
7 Erwin Mitchell Dalton
8 Iris Faircloth Blitch Homerville
9 Phil M Landrum Jasper
10 Paul Brown Elberton
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA 5th Floor Judicial Bldg
Justices
W H Duckworth Chief Justice
Lee B Wyatt Presiding Justice
Law
Assistants
Robert H Brinson Jr
T E Duncan
Associate Justices T Grady Head T S Candler J H Hawkins Bond Almand Carlton Mobley
Miss Maud Saunders Mrs Effie A Mahan L Harold Glore Roy M Thornton Jr John Parham Rabun Jr
Miss Katharine C Bleckley Clerk Henry H Cobb Deputy Clerk Arthur H Codington Reporter George H Richter Assistant Reporter A Broaddus Estes Sheriff
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ALAPAHA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Folks Huxford Judge5Homervilje
Ben T Willoughby SolicitorGeneralHomerville
ALBANY JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Carl E Crow JudgeCamilla
Maston E ONeal SolicitorGeneralBainbridge
ATLANTA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
E E Andrews JudgeAtlanta
Luther Alverson JudgeAtlanta
Virlyn B Moore Judge nia
Ralph Pharr JudgeAattti
Durwood T Pye Judge Jana
Claude D Shaw JudgeSania
J C Jep Tanksley JudgeAtlanta
George P Whitman Sr JudgeAtlanta
Jesse M Wood JudgeAtlanta
Paul Webb SolicitorGeneralAtlanta
ATLANTIC JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Henry H Durrence Judge Claxton
Bruce D Dubberly SolicitorGeneralGlennville
AUGUSTA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Grover C Anderson Judge Waynesboro
F Frederick Kennedy JudgeAugusta
George Hains SolicitorGeneralAugusta
BLUE RIDGE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Howell Brooke Judge
Sam P Burtz SolicitorGeneral
BRUNSWICK JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Douglas F Thomas Judge
W Glenn Thomas SolicitorGeneral
Canton
Canton
Jesup
Jesup
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CHATTAHOOCHEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Hubert Calhoun JudgeColumbus
J R Thompson JudgeTColumbus
John H Land SolicitorGeneral1Columbus
CHEROKEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Jefferson L Davis Judge Cartfirsvillpi
Ronald F Chance SolicitorGeneral 2 Calhoun
CLAYTON JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
William H Reynolds JudgeJonesboro
Harold R Banke SolicitorGeneral5Jonesboro
COBB JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
James T Manning Judge Marietta
Luther C Hames Jr SolicitorGeneral Marietta
CORDELE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
0 Wendell Horne Jr JudgeCordele
Harvey L Jay SolicitorGeneralq Fitzgerald
COWETA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Samuel J Boykin Judge Carrollton
Wright Lipford S0licitorGeneral1Newnan
DUBLIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Rufus I Stephens Judge PO Box 666 Dublin
Harold E Ward SolicitorGeneral Dublin
EASTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Dunbar Harrison JudgetSavannah
B B Heery JudgeSavannah
Edwin A McWhorter JudgeSavannah
Andrew J Ryan Jr SolicitorGeneralSavannah
FLINT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Thomas J Brown Jr Judge
Hugh Dorsey Sosebee SolicitorGeneral
McDonough
Forsyth
GRIFFIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
John H McGehee JudgeThomaston
Andrew J Whalen Jr SolicitorGeneralGriffin
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
John W Davis JudgeSummerville
Earl B Bill Self SolicitorGeneralSummerville
MACON JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
A M Anderson Judgeferry
Oscar L Long JudgerMacon
William M West SolicitorGeneral L L L Macon
MIDDLE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Robert H Humphrey JudgeSwainsboro
W H Lanier SolicitorGenerals Metter
MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
John E Frankum JudgeClarkesville
Irwin R Kimzey SolicitorGeneralClarkesville
NORTHEASTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
G Fred Kelley Judge Gainesville
Jeff Wayne SolicitorGeneralGainesville
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NORTHERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Carey Skelton JudgeHartwell
Clete D Johnson SolicitorGeneralRoyston
OCMULGEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
George S Carpenter Judge1Milledgeville
George D Lawrence SolicitorGeneralEatonton
OCONEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
John Whaley JudgeMcRae
J Wade Johnson SolicitorGeneralMount Vernon
OGEECHEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
J L Renfroe JudgejStatesboro
Walton Usher SolicitorGeneral Guyton
PATAULA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Walter T Geer Judge Colquitt
Joe M Ray SolicitorGeneral Cuthbert
PIEDMONT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Maylon Clinkscales JudgeCommerce
Alfred A Quillian SolicitorGeneralWinder
ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Mack G Hicks JudgeRome
Chastine Parker SolicitorGeneral2Rome
SOUTHERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
George R Lilly JudgeQuitman
Bob Humphreys SolicitorGeneralMoultrie
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SOUTHWESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Cleveland Rees JudgezPreston
Charles Burgamy SolicitorGeneralAmericus
STONE MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Frank H Guess Judge Decatur
H 0 Hubert Jr JudgeDecatur
Clarence R Vaughn JudgeConyers
Richard Bell SolicitorGeneralDecatur
TALLAPOOSA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
W A Foster Jr Judge1Dallas
Dan Winn SolicitorGeneraliCedartown
TIFTON JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
J Bowie Gray JudgeTifton
W J Forehand SolicitorGeneralSylvester
TOOMBS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Earle Norman JudgeWashington
J Cecil Davis SolicitorGeneralWarrenton
WAYCROSS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Cecil Roddenberry JudgeNahunta
Dewey Hayes SolicitorGeneral Douglas
WESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Carlisle Cobb JudgeAthens
D Marshall Pollock SolicitorGeneralMonroe
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LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
State Senate Numerically by Seat Number
1 Hays 8th
2 Kennedy 47th
3 Holton 46th
4 Vaughn 34th
5 Nixon 35th
6 Marshall 28th
7 Slade 14th
8 Doster 48th
9 Holt 54th
10 Home 13th
11 Culpepper 7th
12 Woodall 25th
13 Sanders 18th
14 Brown 52nd
15 Carlisle 51st
16 Smith 4th
17 Lanier 20th
18 Mercer 49th
19 Ramsey 1st
20 Dykes 2nd
21 Brooks 23rd
22 Lindsey 11th
23 Jernigan 5th
24 Greer 6th
25 Perry 24th
26 Crowe 10th
27 Gearreld 37th
28 Breedlove 27th
29 Edenfield 16th
30 Adams 22nd
31 Redwine 26th
32 Clary 29th
33 Mobley 17th
34 McGill 50th
35 Purcell 31st
36 TMarshburn 33rd
37 Screws 9th
38 Roach 39th
39 Buff 44th
40 Barrett 32nd
41 Barrett 45th
42 Pannell 43rd
43 Livingston 38th
44 Lindsey 53rd
45 Cannon 40th
46 Kiker 41st
47 Watson 36th
48 Land 21st
49 Skelton 30th
50 Wright 42nd
51 Roper 19th
52 Shaw 3rd
53 Darby 15th
54 Drew 12th
LtGov Garland T Byrd President of Senate
George D Stewart
Sec of Senate
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Seat Numbers of the Georgia State Senate
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State Senate Alphabetically by Names
Adams 22nd 30
Barrett 32nd 40
Barrett 45th 41
Breedlove 27th28
Brooks 23rd te21
Brown 52nd 14
Buff 44th39
Cannon 40th45
Carlisle 51st 15
Clary 29th 32
Crowe 10th 26
Culpepper 7th 11
Darby 15ths53
Doster 48th 8
Drew 12th54
Dykes 2nd 20
Edenfield 16th 29
Gearreld 37th 27
Greer 6th 24
Hays 8th 1
Holt 54th 9
Holton 46th 3
Horne 13th 10
Jernigan 5th23
Kennedy 47th 2
Kiker 41st 46
Land 21st48
Lanier 20th 17
Lindsey 11th 22
Lindsey 53rd44
Livingston 38th 43
Marshall 28th6
Marshburn 33rd 36
Mercer 49th 18
Mobley 17th33
McGill 50th 34
Nixon 35th 5
Pannell 43rd 42
Perry 24th 25
Purcell 31st 35
Ramsey 1st19
Redwine 26th31
Roach 39th38
Roper 19th 51
Sanders 18th113
Screws 9th137
Shaw 3rdi52
Skelton 30tht49
Slade 14th li7
Smith 4th 16
Vaughn 34th 4
Watson 36th 47
Woodall 25th ill12
Wright 42nd 50
LtGov Garland T Byrd President of Senate
George D Stewart
Sec of Senate
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OFFICERS OF THE
STATE SENATE 1959 1960
PRESIDENT
GARLAND T BYRD Taylor County Lieutenant Governor
CARL E SANDERS President Pro Tem
Richmond County
GEORGE D STEWART Fulton County Secretary
LAMONT SMITH Assistant Secretary
Tattnall County
R1RTP TTnTMFci Reading Clerk
DeKalb County
REBECCA CAUSEY Douglas County Journal Clerk
ANN DUNCAN Fulton County Calendar Clerk
HENRY CASTLEMAN Fulton County Doorkeeper
KELLEY QUILLIAN Barrow County Messenger
FRANK BLANKENSHIP Message Clerk
Fulton County
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MEMBERS OF THE
SENATE OF GEORGIA
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED ACCORDING TO NAMES WITH DISTRICTS AND POST OFFICES
FOR THE TERM 1959 1960
Senators District Post Office
Adams Joe B 22nd PO Box 186 Barnesville
Barrett Clarence E Sr 32nd Cleveland
Barrett Walter W 45th McRae
Breedlove William H 27th Watkins ville
Brooks R C 23rd Reynolds
Brown Charlie 52nd PO Box 30 Atlanta 1
Buff John B Jr 44th Ringgold
Cannon R E 40th Clayton
Carlisle J Douglas 51st Macon
Clary H Eulond 29th Thomson
Crowe W J 10th Sylvester
Culpepper Robert Jr 7th Camilla
Darby James F 15th Vidalia
Doster Norman B 48th Rochelle
Drew W E 12th Preston
Dykes Carl R 2nd Hinesville
Edenfield Henry C 16th Swainsboro
Gearreld Frank L 37th Franklin
Greer John W 6th Lakeland
Hays Broughton C 8th Colquitt
Holt Dr J T 54th Baxley
Holton Noah Sr 46th P 0 Box 466 Douglas
Horne Sherrard 13th Americus
Jernigan Wallace L 5th Box 68 Homerville
Jordan Robert H 25th Talbotton
Res 33159
See Woodall John H Sr
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Senators District Post Office
Kennedy T E Jr 47th 0 Ashburn
Kiker C W Sr 41st Blue Ridge
Land A T 21st Allentown
Lanier Joe N 20th Harrison
Lindsey E M 53rd Rt 2 Lenox
Lindsey V E 11th Fort Gaines
Livingston Dr D M 38th Cedartown
Marshall Asa M Jr 28th Eatonton
Marshburn R J 33rd Shalom Farm Homer
Mercer Russell J 49th Metter
Mobley T Watson 17th Girard
McGill Sam P 50th Washington
Nixon C 0 35th Covington
Pannell Chas A 43rd Chatsworth
Perry Eldridge Wells 24th Buena Vista
Purcell Parker 31st Carnesville
Ramsey H N Sr 1st Springfield
Redwine Harry H 26th Fayetteville
Roach Thomas A 39th Ball Ground
Roper Allen P 19th Greensboro
Sanders Carl E 18th Augusta
Screws Mack C 9th Newton
Shaw Tyron IP 3rd Ludowici
Skelton Joseph S 30th Hartwell
Slade R L Jr 14th V Hawkinsville
Smith Charles C 4th St Marys
Vaughn Clarence R Jr 34th Conyers
Watson Rev C P 36th Concord
Woodall John H Sr 25th Woodland
Elec 42859
Wright Barry Jr 42nd PO Box 268 Rome
See Jordan Robert H
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MEMBERS OF THE
SENATE OF GEORGIA BY DISTRICTS IN NUMERICAL ORDER WITH COUNTIES AND POST OFFICES
First DistrictEFFINGHAM Chatham
H N RAMSEY SRSpringfield
Second DistrictLIBERTY Bryan McIntosh
CARL R DYKESHinesville
Third DistrictLONG Brantley Wayne
TYRON SHAW11Ludowici
Fourth DistrictCAMDEN Charlton Glynn
CHARLES C SMITHSt Marys
Fifth DistrictCLINCH Ware Atkinson
WALLACE L JERNIGANBox 68 Homerville
Sixth DistrictLANIER Echols Lowndes
JOHN W GREERfpLakeland
Seventh DistrictMITCHELL Thomas Grady
ROBERT CULPEPPER JRCamilla
Eighth DistrictMILLER Decatur Seminole
BROUGHTON C HAYSColquitt
Ninth DistrictBAKER Calhoun Early
MACK C SCREWS Newton
Tenth DistrictWORTH Lee Dougherty
W J CROWESylvester
Eleventh DistrictCLAY Randolph Terrell
V E LINDSEY1Fort Gaines
Twelfth DistrictWEBSTER Quitman Stewart
W E DREWPreston
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Thirteenth DistrictSUMTER Macon Schley
SHERRARD HORNE Americus
Fourteenth DistrictPULASKI Bleckley Dooly
R L SLADE JRHawkinsville
Fifteenth DistrictTOOMBS Montgomery Wheeler
JAMES F DARBYJiVidalia
Sixteenth DistrictEMANUEL Laurens Treutlen
HENRY C EDENFIELD Swainsboro
Seventeenth DistrictBURKE Jenkins Screven
T WATSON MOBLEY Girard
Eighteenth DistrictRICHMOND Glascock Jefferson
CARL E SANDERS1Augusta
Nineteenth DistrictGREENE Warren Taliaferro
ALLEN P ROPERGreensboro
Twentieth DistrictWASHINGTON Baldwin Hancock
JOE N LANIER1Harrison
TwentyFirst DistrictWILKINSON Johnson Jones
A T LAND4Allentown
TwentySecond DistrictLAMAR Monroe Butts
JOE B ADAMSP 0 Box 186 Barnesville
TwentyThird DistrictTAYLOR Crawford Peach
R C BROOKS11 uReynolds
TwentyFourth DistrictMARION Muscogee Chattahoochee ELDRIDGE WELLS PERRY Buena Vista
TwentyFifth DistrictTALBOT Harris Upson
ROBERT H JORDANResg 33159 Talbotton
JOHN H WOODALL SRElec 42859 Woodland
TwentySixth DistrictFAYETTE Spalding Clayton
HARRY H REDWINEFayetteville
TwentySeventh DistrictOCONEE Jackson Barrow
WILLIAM H BREEDLOVEWatkinsville
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TwentyEighth DistrictPUTNAM Morgan Jasper
ASA M MARSHALL JRgEatonton
TwentyNinth DistrictMcDUFFIE Columbia Lincoln
H EULOND CLARYgThomson
Thirtieth DistrictHART Madison Elbert
JOSEPH S SKELTONHartwell
ThirtyFirst DistrictFRANKLIN Stephens Habersham
PARKER PURCELLCarnesville
ThirtySecond DistrictWHITE Lumpkin Dawson
CLARENCE E BARRETT SRCleveland
ThirtyThird DistrictBANKS Hall Forsyth
R J MARSHBURNShalom Farm Homer
ThirtyFourth DistrictROCKDALE DeKalb Gwinnett
CLARENCE R VAUGHN JR Conyers
ThirtyFifth DistrictNEWTON Walton Henry
C 0 NIXONiCovington
ThirtySixth DistrictPIKE Coweta Meriwether
REV C P WATSONConcord
ThirtySeventh DistrictHEARD Carroll Troup
FRANK L GEARRELD Franklin
ThirtyEighth DistrictPOLK Paulding Haralson
DR D M LIVINGSTONCedartown
ThirtyNinth DistrictCHEROKEE Douglas Cobb
THOMAS A ROACHBall Ground
Fortieth DistrictRABUN Towns Union
R E CANNONClayton
FortyFirst DistrictFANNIN Gilmer Pickens
C W KIKER SRIBlue Ridge
FortySecond DistrictFLOYD Bartow Chattooga
BARRY WRIGHT JRBox 268 Rome
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FortyThird DistrictMURRAY Whitfield Gordon
CHAS A PANNELLChatsworth
FortyFourth DistrictCATOOSA Dade Walker
JOHN B BUFF JRRinggold
FortyFifth DistrictTELFAIR Irwin Ben Hill
WALTER W BARRETT McRae
FortySixth DistrictCOFFEE Pierce Bacon
NOAH HOLTON SRBox 466 Douglas
FortySeventh DistrictTURNER Colquitt Tift
T E KENNEDY JRAshburn
FortyEighth DistrictWILCOX Crisp Dodge
NORMAN B DOSTERtRochelle
FortyNinth DistrictCANDLER Evans Bulloch
RUSSELL J MERCERI1 Metter
Fiftieth DistrictWILKES Oglethorpe Clarke
SAM P McGILL Washington
FiftyFirst DistrictBIBB Twiggs Houston
J DOUGLAS CARLISLE t Macon
FiftySecond DistrictFULTON
CHARLIE BROWNP 0 Box 30 Atlanta 1
FiftyThird DistrictCOOK Brooks Berrien
E M LINDSEYRt 2 Lenox
FiftyFourth DistrictAPPLING Jeff Davis Tattnall
DR J T HOLTBaxley
STANDING COMMITTEES
OF THE
SENATE
TERM 19591960
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AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
Doster of 48th Chairman Breedlove of 27th ViceChairman Lindsey of 11th Secretary Adams of 22nd Buff of 44th Clary of 29th
Darby of 15th Lanier of 20th Lindsey of 53rd McGill of 50th Mobley of 17th Perry of 24th Skelton of 30th
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
Carlisle of 51st Chairman Hays of 8th ViceChairman Barrett of 45th Secretary Adams of 22nd Brooks of 23rd Holt of 54th Kiker of 41st
Lindsey of 11th Pannell of 43rd Roach of 39th Screws of 9th Shaw of 3rd Watson of 36th
BANKING AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
Brooks of 23rd Chairman Land of 21st ViceChairman Redwine of 26th Secretary Brown of 52nd Carlisle of 51st Dykes of 2nd
Edenfield of 16th Jernigan of 5th Sanders of 18th Smith of 4th Wright of 42nd
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COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS COMMITTEE
Brown of 52nd Chairman Darby of 15th ViceChairman Buff of 44th SecretaryGear reld of 37th Holton of 46th Lindsey of 53rd
Purcell of 31st Redwine of 26th Screws of 9th Shaw of 3rd Vaughn of 34th
DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Clary of 29th Chairman Horne of 13th
Mercer of 49th ViceChairman Marshburn of 33rd
Watson of 36th Secretary Smith of 4th
Dykes of 2nd
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS COMMITTEE
Jernigan of 5th Chairman Marshburn of 33rd ViceChairman Mobley of 17th Secretary Breedlove of 27th Brown of 52nd Greer of 6th Horne of 13th
Lanier of 20th Mercer of 49th Nixon of 35th Roach of 39th Smith of 4th Watson of 36th Woodall of 25th
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Culpepper of 7th Chairman Darby of 15th
Crowe of 10th ViceChairman Sanders of 18th
Greer of 6th Secretary
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HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE
Holt of 54th Chairman Livingston of 38th ViceChairman Cannon of 40th Secretary Brown of 52nd Buff of 44th
Holton of 46th Kiker of 41st Lindsey of 53rd Marshall of 28th Mercer of 49th Screws of 9th
HIGHWAYS COMMITTEE
Holton of 46th Chairman Roper of 19th ViceChairman Lanier of 20th Secretary Barrett of 32nd Barrett of 45th Drew of 12th Horne of 13th Jernigan of 5th Kennedy of 47th
Kiker of 41st Lindsey of 11th Livingston of 38th Marshall of 28th Marshburn of 33 rd Purcell of 31st Shaw of 3rd Woodall of 25th
INDUSTRY AND
Wright of 42nd Chairman Barrett of 32nd ViceChairman McGill of 50th Secretary Brooks of 23rd Cannon of 40th
LABOR COMMITTEE
Crowe of 10th Drew of 12th Gearreld of 37th Holt of 54th Mobley of 17th Skelton of 30th
INTERSTATE COOPERATIVE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Edenfield of 16th Chairman Perry of 24th ViceChairman Pannell of 43rd Secretary Greer of 6th
Sanders of 18th Alternates Jordan of 25th Slade of 14th
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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Vaughn of 34th Chairman Crowe of 10th ViceChairman Skelton of 30th Secretary Adams of 22nd Carlisle of 51st
Culpepper of 7th Hays of 8th Gearreld of 37th Roach of 39th Wright of 42nd
PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL
Kennedy of 47th Chairman Nixon of 35th ViceChairman Marshall of 28th Secretary Barrett of 32nd
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Brooks of 23rd Purcell of 31st Roper of 19th
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
Greer of 6th Chairman Redwine of 26th ViceChairman Land of 21st Secretary Breedlove of 27th
Clary of 29th Culpepper of 7th Doster of 48th Kennedy of 47th Roper of 19th
RULES COMMITTEE
Mr President Chairman Sanders of 18th
V iceChairman Vaughn of 34th Secretary Barrett of 45th Carlisle of 51st Crowe of 10th Culpepper of 7th Doster of 48th Edenfield of 16th
Hays of 8th Land of 21st Livingston of 38th McGill of 50th Nixon of 35th Pannell of 43rd Ramsey of 1st Wright of 42nd Woodall of 25th
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SENATE ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Ramsey of 1st Chairman Clary of 29th
Slade of 14th ViceChairman Perry of 24th
Cannon of 40th Secretary
TEMPERANCE COMMITTEE
Dykes of 2nd Chairman Kennedy of 47th
Drew of 12th ViceChairman Ramsey of 1st
Slade of 14th Secretary
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THE PRESIDENT
Discretion
Rule 1 The President shall in his discretion president suspend irrelevant debate and command silence whenever he may deem it needful
Rule 2 In all cases the President shall not vote unless the Senate shall be equally divided In all cases where a fixed constitutional vote is required to pass the bill or measure under consideration and said bill or measure shall lack only one vote to pass the same the President may vote
Rule 3 When two or more Senators shall rise at the same time the President shall name the Senator entitled to proceed
When President shall vote
Right of Senator to the floor to be decided by the President
Rule 4 All committees shall be appointed by President to the President unless otherwise ordered by the Pteea Senate
Rule 5 The method of stating the question on any motion by the President shall be as follows All in favor of the motion will say Aye Those opposed will say No And when a decision may seem doubtful to the President or a division of the Senate is called for by any one member of the Senate the President shall call upon the Senators in favor of the motion to rise and after a count is had by the Secretary he shall call upon the Senators to reverse their positions and the President shall announce the result
Method of stating a question by the President
Rule 6 The President may during a days sitting name any Senator to perform the duties of the Chair during any part of that sitting but no longer
President may name Senator to preside
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Duty of
Secretary
when
President
absent
When no debate on appeals
Appeals to be made at once
Power of President to suspend subordinate officers
When President may order galleries and lobbies cleared
In the absence of the President of the Senate the Speaker of the House shall preside in the absence of both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House the President pro tempore of the Senate shall preside in the absence of the three last named the Speaker pro tempore of the House shall preside
Rule 7 Whenever from any cause the President shall be absent the President pro tempore shall preside and if both shall be absent the Secretary of the Senate shall call the Senate to order and shall preside until a President pro tempore shall be elected which said election shall be the first business of the Senate The President pro tempore thus elected shall preside until the return of one of the first named officers when his functions shall cease
Rule 8 On all appeals on questions of order of a personal character there shall be no debate
Rule 9 All appeals from the decisions of the Chair shall be made immediately and no appeal shall be in order after other business has intervened from the time of the alleged error of the Chair and before said appeal is sought to be made
Rule 10 The President shall have power to suspend the Messenger and Doorkeepers for misconduct or neglect of duty and when such suspension has been made he shall report the same to the Senate within twentyfour hours thereafter for such action as the Senate may see fit to take in the premises
Rule 11 The President shall have power to cause the galleries and lobbies of the Senate cleared by the Messenger and Doorkeepers in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct therein and to cause any person or persons so offending to be arrested and brought before the
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bar of the Senate to be dealt with for contempt of the Senate
Rule 12 When less than a quorum vote on any subject under consideration by the Senate the President may order the door of the Senate to be closed and the roll of Senators called by the Secretary and if it is ascertained that a quorum is present either by answering to their names or by their presence in the Senate and any Senator present then refuses to vote unless excused such refusal shall be deemed a contempt of the Senate
Rule 13 The President may at any time order the roll called on any question and take the vote by yeas and nays where a division of the Senate discloses the fact that a quorum of the Senate has not voted
Rule 14 All questions as to priority of business to be acted on shall be decided by the President without debate
ON DECORUM AND DEBATE
Rule 15 When any Senator is about to speak in debate or deliver any matter to the Senate he shall rise from his seat and respectfully address himself to Mr President The President shall not recognize any Senator unless he shall address himself to the Chair from his seat provided however the President shall not put a question or take any other action which would foreclose debate if any Senator not at his seat shall signify to the Chair that he wishes to be recognized and shall immediately proceed to his seat for that purpose He shall be confined to matter in debate shall speak not more than twice on any subject nor more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken During all sessions all individual speeches on bills and resolutions shall be limited to thirty
No quorum voting duty of President
When President may order vote taken by yeas and nays
Decision on questions of priority
Conduct of
Senators
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Appeals
Expulsion See Rule 17
Exception to Words spoken
minutes unless extended by a majority of a quorum and on all points of personal privileges shall be limited to ten minutes If any Senator in speaking or otherwise trangress the rules of the Senate the President shall call him to order in which case the Senator so called to order shall immediately sit down unless permitted to explain The Senate shall if appealed to decide and the decision of the Senate be not submitted to the delinquent for the first offense shall be reproved for the second fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars and continuing refractory may be expelled from the Senate by a twothirds vote of the Senators which said vote shall be taken by yeas and nays The provisions contained hereinbefore relative to a Senator only being recognized when he shall address himself to the Chair from his seat and any other provisions in any other rule requiring Senators to be in their seats shall not apply to the Senator who is designated as Floor Leader
Rule 16 If any Senator be called to order for words spoken the words excepted to shall be taken down in writing by the Secretary and read then admitted denied or explained by the Senator who spoke and thereupon the questions of order shall be decided and such other proceedings had as the Senate may deem proper in regard thereto Provided that if at the time the Senate is acting under the previous question such question of order and other proceedings referred to shall not be taken up for decision until after the previous question and the main question have been disposed of or until such further time as may then be ordered by the Senate But no Senator shall be held to answer or be subject to the censure of the Senate for words spoken in debate if any other Senator has spoken or other business has intervened after the words were spoken and before the exception to them
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was taken
Rule 17 The members of the Senate shall forbear from private conversation and preserve silence until a speaking Senator shall have taken his seat
Rule 18 The Senators shall avoid naming each other when they may have occasion to take notice of their observations but may designate them by the districts they represent
Rule 19 No Senator shall vote upon any question in the result of which he is personally interested and in every case where the seat of a Senator is being contested the sitting Senator and the contestant shall both retire from the Senate before the vote is taken
Rule 20 Any Senator may have entered on the Journal a protest in writing against the action of the Senate said protest shall clearly and succinctly set forth the grounds of such protest and shall not be argumentative nor arraign nor impugn the motive of the Senate nor any members thereof
Rule 21 No Senator shall address the Senate nor interrogate a Senator who is speaking except through the President and if the Senator speaking declines to be interrupted the President shall cause the Senator desiring to interrogate him to be silent
Rule 22 No Senator shall pass between the Chair and a Senator while he is speaking nor shall any Senator at the time of adjournment leave his seat until the President retires
Rule 23 No Senator shall in debate refer to any private conversation had with another Senator or to any matters which have transpired in any committee of the House or Senate while the
Silence
Mode of
designating
Senators
Shall not vote when interested in result
Protests
Duty while Senator is speaking and at adjournment
Restrictions in debate
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Applause and hisses forbidden same was in executive session Rule 24 In nominating candidates for any office no other candidate shall be disparaged Rule 25 Applause or hisses in the Senate Chamber or in the galleries or lobby during any speech or legislative proceedings shall be promptly suppressed
No debate during yeas and nays Rule 26 During the calling or reading of yeas and nays on any question no debate shall be had
Only one motion be made at a time Rule 27 No Senator can make more than one motion at a time and while the motion is being put to the Senate he must resume his seat and he is not further entitled to the floor unless again recognized by the President
Explana tion Rule 28 On all questions except such as are not debatable any Senator on the call of the yeas and nays shall be allowed five minutes as a matter of right in which to explain his vote Where the vote on any question is not taken by yeas and nays no Senator shall be allowed to explain except by unanimous consent Provided however any Senator may explain his vote not taken by yeas and nays by filing such explanation in writing with the Secretary before the confirmation of the Journal on the day next succeeding such vote No motion or request shall be entertained to vary this rule nor to extend a Senators time for explaining
Reading of papers Rule 29 When the reading of any paper is called for and the same is objected to by any Senator it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate and this motion shall be decided without debate
Motion to excuse when made Rule 30 A motion to excuse a Senator from voting must be made before the Senate divides or before the call of the yeas and nays is com
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menced and it shall be decided without debate except that the Senator making the motion may briefly state the reason why in his opinion it Excuses ought to prevail from v0 ne
Rule 31 No Senator shall be allowed to address himself to any question and then move to table the bill resolution or motion or move the previous question thereon without relinquishing the floor
DIVISION OF A QUESTION Caii for
Rule 32 Any one Senator may call for a division division of the question on a subject in which the sense thereof will admit of it
Rule 33 The Senator calling for a division must state into how many and definitely what Division parts he would have the question divided Each how made part of the divided proposition must be so distinct that if taken away the remainder can stand by itself and be consistent and entire
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Rule 34 All bills and resolutions shall be called in the order in which they stand on the Bills and calendar and before reading any bill or resolu resolutions tion the second or third time the Secretary shall m
distinctly state its number and the name of the Senator by whom introduced Provided that the General Appropriation Bill and the General Tax Bill shall have precedence on third reading over all other matters even Special Orders until the said bills shall have been finally disposed of
Rule 35 Every motion or request to take up Proviso general bills or resolutions out of their regular hat tbe order and every motion or request for special jn writing orders shall be submitted in writing and reported upon by the Committee on Rules before being submitted to the Senate
Rule 36 No debate shall be admitted upon
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Question on first reading
Effect of favorable report of committee
Adverse report of committee
Bills when withdrawn
any bill at the first reading Upon the introduction of any bill or resolution or other matter requiring reference to a committee the President shall as a matter of course and without debate commit the same to the proper committee unless otherwise ordered by the Senate In case of engrossment of any bill or other matter the entry thereof shall be made by the Secretary and the bill or other matter shall not be amendable thereafter unless subsequently committed No bill or resolution shall be engrossed except upon the affirmative vote of of the Senators present No Senator shall be recognized at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to engross a bill or resolution When a motion to engross is made which motion may be made upon reading the bill the first time and at no other time no debate shall be permitted except that the movant may speak to his motion not longer than 5 minutes and any other one Senator may speak in opposition thereto for 5 minutes
Rule 37 Where the report of a committee is favorable to the passage of a bill etc the same shall be read a second time and passed to a third reading without question unless recommitted Where the report of a committee is adverse to the passage of a bill etc in order to have a second reading thereof any Senator may at the time such report is made give notice of intention to move at the proper time to disagree to such adverse committee report when the question shall be upon agreeing to the report of the committee If the report of the committee is agreed to the bill etc shall be lost If the report of the committee is disagreed to the bill etc shall be passed to a third reading unless recommitted Provided that no bill etc adversely reported shall be taken up for a second reading except by motion of some Senator Any bill etc may be withdrawn at any stage thereof by consent of the Senate
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Rule 38 When a bill etc favorably reported by a committee is on its third or last reading if the report of the committee is disagreed to by the Senate the bill or measures shall be lost unless the action of the Senate in disagreeing to the committee report is reconsidered within the proper time
Rule 39 The President shall not recognize any Senator at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to place any general bill on its passage out of its regular order Neither shall he recognize any request for unanimous consent for the introduction of new matter or to read any bill or resolution the second time or to place any local bill or resolution on its passage except during the first thirty minutes after the confirmation of the Journal The President shall entertain but one unanimous consent at any one time
Rule 40 Where a bill or a resolution has been referred and reported by more than one committee or has been reported on and recommitted to the same committee the last committee report shall be acted on by the Senate
Rule 41 All bills and resolutions shall be written or printed and shall have the name of the Senator introducing the same as well as the district he represents indorsed on the back of the same and in the case of bills the caption of the bill shall also be indorsed on the same All bills and resolutions having the force and effect of law shall when introduced have attached an exact copy and said copy shall be retained by the Secretary subject to use as information but the original bill or resolution shall be for the exclusive use of the Senate and the committee to which it is assigned and shall be the official bill or resolution of the Senate and shall not be subject to any other use
Reports of committees order of action
Bills and resolutions to be in writing
How
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Transmission to House by majority vote
No bill and no resolution requiring the concurring vote of the House for passage shall be introduced unless the same shall have been filed in the office of the Secretary before adjournment or before 12 oclock noon whichever is later on the previous day
Rule 42 The Secretary shall as soon as possible after any bill or resolution of general application is filed in his office cause the same to be printed and a copy thereof distributed to each member forthwith Whenever any such bill or resolution of general application shall be reported back by the committee to which it was referred with the recommendation that it do pass as amended or by substitute the Secretary shall cause the recommended amendment or substitute to be printed and copies thereof distributed to each member No bill or resolution of general application shall be placed on its passage unless copies of the same shall have been printed and distributed to the Senators prior to adjournment on the previous day The Senate may at any time by the vote of a majority of a quorum suspend action upon any pending bill or resolution of general application until all amendments and substitutes offered thereto whether by a committee report or on the floor of the Senate shall have been printed and distributed to the Senators
Rule 43 No bill or resolution shall be transmitted to the House on the day of passage thereof unless a majority of the Senators present shall so order
Rule 44 The Committee on Rules during the last fifteen legislative days of each session shall arrange and fix the calendar of business for each day and such calendar of business shall be a standing and continuing special order during said
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period and no matter shall be taken up or acted on otherwise than in the order and manner fixed by such calendar except by a threefourths vote of those present
PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS
Rule 45 When any subject is before the Senate for consideration or under debate no motion shall be received except the following towit
1st A motion to adjourn
2nd A motion to lay on table
3rd A motion for the previous question
4th A motion to postpone indefinitely
5th A motion to postpone to a day certain
6th A motion to commit
7th A motion to amend
Which said several motions shall have precedence in the order named
MOTION TO ADJOURN
Rule 46 A motion to adjourn is in no instance debatable nor shall said motion be made a second time until further progress has been made in the business before the Senate A motion to adjourn in its simple form shall not be amended
Rule 47 A motion to adjourn to a particular day or for a particular time if made when the
Order of precedence
Not debatable when may be renewed Amendment
When
debatable
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When made Rule 48 The motion to adjourn can be made at any time when the Senator moving it can legitimately obtain the floor
When not in order Rule 49 A motion to adjourn may be made after the motion for the previous question has been sustained but when the Senate has voted that the main question shall be now put no motion to adjourn is in order nor shall any motion to adjourn be in order after the Secretary has called the first name of the ayes and nays and a vote of one Senator has been given or after a division of the Senate has been had on a vote and the vote is in process of being counted and announced
Effect of adjournment Rule 50 When a motion to adjourn in its simple form prevails it adjourns the Senate to the next sitting day or time in course
Hours of adjournment What business postponed Rule 51 Whenever the hour of adjournment as fixed by a prior resolution shall arrive while the vote of the Senate is being taken by the yeas and nays the session shall continue until the final vote is taken and announced and if said fixed hour of adjournment shall arrive while the Senate is acting on the main question after a motion for the previous question has been sustained and before the vote on the main question is being taken either by a division or by the yeas and nays as aforesaid the Senate shall stand adjourned by virtue of said prior resolution
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MOTIONS TO LAY ON THE TABLE
Rule 52 No motion to lay an amendment or substitute on the table shall be in order
Rule 53 A majority of a quorum voting may take from the table at any time when the Senate is not engaged on any other measure any bill resolution or other paper which has been ordered to lie on the table and when so taken from the table it is thereby restored to its appropriate place on the calendar
Rule 54 A motion to lay on the table or to take from the table can be renewed from time to time when new business has intervened between the votes
Rule 55 Neither the motion to lay on the table nor the motion to take from the table is debatable or amendable
Rule 56 Nothing can be legitimately laid on the table excepting what can be taken up again
Rule 57 A motion to lay on the table may be made after the motion for the previous question has been sustained but when the Senate has voted that the main question shall be now put no motion to lay on the table is in order
THE MOTION FOR THE PREVIOUS QUESTION
Rule 58 The motion for the previous question shall be decided without debate and shall
Amendment or substitute cannot be laid on table
How matters may be taken from table
When
renewed
Not debatable or amendable
What can be tabled
When in order
Effect of
previous
Question
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Vote how taken
Yeas and nays Onefifth necessary
take precedence of all other motions except motions to adjourn or to lay on the table and when it is moved the first question shall be Shall the call for the previous question be sustained If this be decided by a majority vote in the affirmative the motion to adjourn or to lay on the table can still be made but they must be made before the next question towit Shall the main question be now put is decided in the affirmative and after said last question is affirmatively decided by a majority vote said motions will be out of order and the Senate cannot adjourn until the previous question is exhausted or the regular hour of adjournment arrives
Rule 59 When the previous question has been ordered the Senate shall then proceed to act on the main question without debate except that before the main question is put twenty minutes shall be allowed to the committee whose report of the bill or other measure is under consideration to close the debate When the report of the committee is adverse to the passage of the bill or other measure the introducer of the bill shall be allowed twenty minutes before the time allowed to the committee for closing the debate The Chairman of the committee or the introducer of the bill or other measure may yield the floor to such Senators as he may indicate for the time or any part of it allowed under this rule
Rule 60 After the main question is ordered any Senator may call for a division of the Senate in taking the vote or may call for the yeas and nays but on all questions on which the yeas and nays are called the assent of onefifth of the number present shall be necessary to sustain the call and when such call is sustained the yeas and nays shall be entered on the Journal
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Rule 61 The effect of the order that the main question be now put is to bring the Senate to a vote on pending questions in the order in which they stood before it was moved
Rule 62 After the main question has been ordered a motion to reconsider this action will if adopted have the effect to repeal the ordering of both the main question and the previous question and will leave the pending measure again open to debate and amendment This motion to reconsider the ordering of the main question can be made only once and if lost or if the main question is again subsequently ordered on the pending measure no second motion to reconsider the ordering of the main question shall be entertained
Rule 63 In all cases where a minority report has been submitted on any matter if the previous question is ordered there shall be twenty minutes allowed to the members of said committee whose name is first signed to said minority report or to such member or members as he may indicate for the time so allowed or any part of it before the twenty minutes allowed to the Chairman submitting the majority report
Rule 64 The previous question may be called and ordered upon a single motion or an amendment or it may be made to embrace all authorized motions or amendments and include the entire bill to its passage or rejection
Rule 65 A call of the Senate shall not be in order after the previous question is ordered unless it shall appear upon an actual count by the President that a quorum is not present
Effect of main question being ordered
Reconsideration when in order
Contested
elections
How called and ordered
Call of the Senate when in order
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Questions of order
Effect
Not amendable
When cannot be applied
Not renewed
Debate when and how allowed
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Rule 66 All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question and pending such motion shall be decided whether on appeal or otherwise without debate
MOTIONS TO INDEFINITELY POSTPONE
Rule 67 When a bill resolution or other measure is under consideration on the final reading thereof a motion to indefinitely postpone if decided in the affirmative by a majority of a quorum thereby disposes of said bill resolution or other measure for the session
Rule 68 The motion to indefinitely postpone lays open the whole question for debate but it cannot be amended
Rule 69 While the motion to indefinitely postpone takes precedence over a motion to postpone to a day certain or to commit or amend yet this motion cannot be applied to said motions nor can it be applied to incidental questions such as questions of order reading of papers withdrawal of a motion and suspension of a rule
Rule 70 No motion to indefinitely postpone shall be renewed on any bill resolution or other measure after the same has once been voted down
MOTION TO POSTPONE TO A DAY CERTAIN
Rule 71 On a motion to postpone to a day certain it is not in order to debate the merits of
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the question proposed to be postponed Debate may be allowed but it shall be confined strictly to the proposition to postpone and to show why one day is preferred to another This motion cannot be renewed or made a second time to the same measure on the same day
Rule 72 The motion to postpone to a day certain cannot be applied to subordinate or incidental questions but only to the whole measure It is amendable by substituting one day or time for another If a day proposed is known to be beyond the limits of the Session the motion shall be treated as one to indefinitely postpone
MOTION TO COMMIT
Rule 73 notions to commit may be made to refer a bill resolution or other measure to a standing or special committee
Rule 74 A motion to commit to a standing committee takes precedence over a motion to commit to a special committee and shall be first voted on
Rule 75 On a motion simply to commit no debate shall be allowed but where instructions are added the merits of the question can be debated
Rule 76 A motion to commit may be amended by adding instructions or by substituting another committee for the one named by the Senator making the motion
Rule 77 Any proposition that has been referred to any committee either standing or
Motion to commit
Precedence of
When
debatable
How amended
Motion to recommit
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Amendments how made MOTION TO AMEND Rule 78 There are three ways in which a proposition may be amended towit 1st By inserting or adding words 2nd By striking out words 3rd By striking out and inserting words An amendment is itself subject to be amended in all three of the ways above mentioned but it is not admissible to amend an amendment to an amendment Any irrelevant amendment or amendment obviously offered for the purpose of delay shall be ruled out of order by the President
Bill first perfected then the substitute Rule 79 When a bill or resolution is before the Senate for consideration and amendments are pending thereto and a substitute shall be offered for said bill or resolution and an amendment shall be offered to said substitute it shall be in order for the Senate to first perfect the original bill or resolution and then perfect the substitute The question shall then be on agreeing to the substitute as amended if it be amended and if decided in the affirmative the question shall be Shall this bill pass or resolution be adopted as the case may be by substitute
When too late to amend Rule 80 An amendment cannot be offered after the report of the committee to whom was referred the bill or resolution under consideration has been agreed to by the Senate unless said action of the Senate in so agreeing to said
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report of said committee shall first be reconsidered
Rule 81 All motions to amend any matter before the Senate must be in writing and must plainly and distinctly set forth the amendment desired and the part of the bill or resolution where said amendment shall be inserted or added
Rule 82 On all questions whether in committee or in the Senate the last amendment the most distant day and the largest sum shall be first put
Rule 83 Where blanks occur in any proposition they must be filled first before any motion is made to amend
Rule 84 The caption or preamble of a bill or resolution shall not be considered or amended until the measure has been perfected
Rule 85 When a proposition consisting of several sections or resolutions is on a final reading and the Senate shall agree to a motion to consider the same by sections or paragraphs the Secretary in reading the same shall pause at the end of each section or resolution and the amendments thereto shall be offered as the several sections or resolutions are read but the amendments offered by the committee to whom said bill or resolution was referred shall be read by the secretary without any motion being made in the Senate and when a section or resolution shall have been considered it is not in order to recur back and amend it
Must be in writing
Priority
Blanks
Caption when amended
Amending by sections
Rule 86 When a motion is made to amend by
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Priority of amendment to perfect
Amending
House
amendments
See Bule 129
Priority
Priority of questions on House amendments
striking out and inserting the Secretary shall read the paragraph as it is then the words to be stricken out and finally the whole paragraph as it would be if amended
Rule 87 When a motion is made to amend by striking out a paragraph any amendment offered to perfect the paragraph shall be put first before the question is put for striking it out
Rule 88 When any bill or resolution which originated in the Senate has been amended in the House and is before the Senate for action on the House amendment an amendment may be offered in the Senate to the House amendment but the Senate amendment to the House amendment cannot be further amended it must be agreed to or voted down
Rule 89 A motion to amend an amendment made by the House to a Senate bill or resolution takes precedence of a motion to agree or disagree to said amendment
Rule 90 The questions which arise before the Senate respecting amendments by the House to a Senate bill or resolution are
1st A motion to agree to the House amendment
2nd A motion to disagree to the House amendment
3rd A motion to recede from its disagreement or amendment
4th A motion to insist on its disagreement or amendment
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5th A motion to adhere to its disagreement or amendment
They take precedence in the above order
RECONSIDERATION
Rule 91 When the Journal of the preceding day shall be read it shall be in the power of any Senator to move for reconsideration of any matter therein contained except such matter that has been previously reconsidered provided such Senator shall notify the Senate of his intention to move such reconsideration at any time before the Journal is confirmed
Rule 92 The notice of a motion to reconsider shall not be withdrawn after the time has elapsed within which it might originally have been made
Rule 93 No matter shall be reconsidered more than once
Rule 94 Motions for reconsideration shall be in order immediately after the time for unanimous consents on the day succeeding the action sought to be reconsidered except that any matter which could not be reconsidered on the succeeding day shall be in order for reconsideration on the day of said action Provided a motion to reconsider the action of the Senate ordering immediate transmission of any bill or resolution to the House shall be made and disposed of before the transaction of other business
Rule 95 The action of the Senate upon an amendment may be reconsidered at any time
Motion to reconsider
Shall not be
withdrawn
when
When there may be one reconsideration
When in order
Amendments
when
reconsidered
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Place on calendar Rule 96 All bills reconsidered shall take their place at the foot of the calendar of bills then in order for a third reading
Morning rollcall dispensed with by majority vote ABSENTEES Rule 97 The rollcall at the opening of each session of the Senate shall not be dispensed with except by a majority vote of the Senators present
Names of absentees noted Rule 98 Upon the call of the Senators ordinary and extraordinary the names of the absentees shall be noted by the Secretary and shall appear upon the Journal
Sergeantatarms Power to compel attendance COMPELLING ATTENDANCE Rule 99 The power to compel the attendance of Senators in order to keep or secure a quorum shall be vested in the President and to this end he may have the doors of the Senate closed When the doors are so closed no Senator shall be allowed to retire from the Senate without first obtaining leave from the Senate The Messenger of the Senate shall be exofficio SergeantatArms of the Senate and on order of the President may arrest any absentees and bring them before the Senate when necessary to secure a quorum as aforesaid
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CALL OF THE SENATE
Rule 100 Whenever the result of a vote taken shall disclose the fact that no quorum of the Senate is present or when the President shall officially state the fact to the Senate it shall be in order for any Senator to make a motion for a call of the Senate and when this motion is made the President shall state the question as follows Shall the motion for the call of the Senate prevail and if five of the Senators present shall vote in the affirmative the President shall order the Secretary to call the roll of Senators and the absentees shall be noted the doors shall then be closed after which the names of the absentees shall again be called over and those who do not appear and who are absent without leave may by order of the majority of the Senators present be sent for and arrested wherever they may be found by officers to be appointed by the Messenger for that purpose and their attendance secured and the Senate shall determine upon what conditions they shall be discharged
MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Rule 101 When a message is sent to the Senate it shall be announced at the door of the Senate by the Doorkeeper and be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person through whom it may be sent
Rule 102 Messages may be received at any time while the door is open except while a question is being put or a ballot or a viva voce vote
Call how ordered
Subsequent
proceedings
Messages
Messages when received and considered
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Motions
Petitions
memorials
etc
No Debate
Motions not privileged
Record
Not necessary to second motion
Committees how and when enlarged
is being taken A message shall be presented to the Senate by the President when received or afterwards according to its nature and the business on which the Senate is engaged or its consideration may on motion be ordered by the Senate
Rule 103 After a motion is stated by the President or read by the Secretary it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the Senate but may be withdrawn at any time before decision by consent of the Senate
Rule 104 Any member presenting a petition memorial or remonstrance shall as concisely as practicable intimate the name and object the petitioner memorialist or remonstrant which shall be noted on the Journal and the paper may then be referred without reading
Rule 105 Any motion to suspend the rules or change the order of business shall be decided without debate
Rule 106 Any motion not privileged containing new matters shall lie at least one day on the table
Rule 107 Whenever on any question the yeas and nays shall have been ordered the Secretary shall also enter on the Journal the names of those members not voting
Rule 108 Where a motion is made by any Senator it shall not be necessary that the same shall be seconded before being put to the Senate
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majority of the committee to be added thereto except when Senators have been elected to fill vacancies caused by death or otherwise the President may assign said Senators to such committees as he may see fit and he may fill any vacancy in chairmanships
Rule 110 No person shall be allowed to enter the floor of the Senate except the Senators and officers of the Senate the officers and members of the House and the Governor of the State and such others as the Senate may allow upon recommendation of the Committee on Rules
Provided however the operation of Rule 110 shall be suspended as to representatives of the working press radio and television until an appropriate gallery can be arranged therefor
Rule 111 It shall be the duty of the Committee on Senate Administrative Affairs to read the Journal of each days proceedings and report to the Senate that the same is correct before the Journal is read by the Secretary
Rule 112 The session of the Senate each day except Sunday shall commence at 1000 a m unless otherwise ordered by the Senate and shall continue until the Senate shall be adjourned upon motion
Rule 113 A motion for the call of the yeas and nays shall be decided without debate
Privileges of the floor
Duty of Committee on Journals
Adjourn
ment
Motion fot yeas and nays not debatable
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Signature of President and Secretary Rule 114 All writs warrants subpoenas issued by order of the Senate shall be signed by the President and attested by the Secretary
Duty of Messenger Rule 115 It shall be the duty of the Messenger to attend to the wants of the Senate while in session to aid in the enforcement of order under the direction of the President and to execute the demands of the Senate from time to time together with all such processes issued under its authority as may be directed to him by the President
Messengers duty in distributing documents etc Rule 116 The Messenger under the direction of the Secretary shall superintend the distribution by the Pages of all documents and papers to be distributed to the members he shall distribute to the members the usual and necessary stationery required by them
Interlineation forbidden Rule 117 No committee shall deface or interline a bill resolution or other paper referred to said committee but shall report any amendments recommended on separate paper noting the section page or line to which said amendments relate
Pairing Rule 118 No pairing of members shall be recognized or allowed as an excuse for not voting
Committees of Conference Rule 119 Whenever any Senator moves that a Committee of Conference on disagreeing votes of the two Houses naming the number of members be appointed if said motion prevails the President shall appoint a committee on the part of the Senate and in such case the committee shall consist only of such Senators as voted in
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the majority on the position assumed by the Senate and if by inadvertence any Senator be nominated on said committee who was not in said majority vote he shall notify the Senate and be excused by the President
Rule 120 After commitment of a bill and report thereof to the Senate it may be amended before the report of the committee is agreed to by the Senate but the amendments if any reported by the committee shall be disposed of before any other amendment be considered unless it be an amendment to a committee amendment
Rule 121 No Senator shall after debating any question and before yielding the floor be allowed to submit any motion the effect of which shall be to prevent further debate
Rule 122 No motion on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment If a motion be made to strike out a part of a bill or resolution a motion to amend the part proposed to be stricken out shall be first on order
Rule 123 All reports of a committee shall be in writing and the minority of a committee may make a report in writing setting forth succinctly the reasons for their dissent
Rule 124 No Senator shall except by special resolution draw any per diem in excess of 20 days per annum in addition to regular or special sessions of the Senate
Rule 125 On the call of the yeas and nays the Secretary shall read the names of the Senators after they have been called and no Senator
Amendments
Free debate
Motion
Majority and minority reports
Per diem
Changing
rotes
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PeJmei to change his vote unless he at timvtime declares that he voted under a mistake of the question
Questions of privilege
Rule 126 Questions of the privilege shall be first those affecting the rights of the Senate collectively its safety dignity and the integrity of its proceedings second the rights reputation and conduct of Senators individually in their representative capacity only and shall have precedence of all other questions Provided that when any matter is pending before the Senate no question of personal privilege shall be acted on until the pending question is disposed of
Elections
Appropriating money yeas and nays called and recorded Must originate in House of Representatives
Rule 127 In all elections a majority of the Senators present shall be necessary to a choice
Rule 128 No bill or resolution appropriating money shall become a law unless upon its passage the yeas and nays are called and recorded All bills for raising revenue or appropriating money must originate in the House of Representatives but the Senate may propose or concur m amendments as in other bills
Amendment to Constitution entered in full in journals
Rule 129 Whenever the Constitution requires a vote of twothirds of either or both Houses for the passage of an act or resolution the yeas and nays on the passage thereof shall be entered on the Journal and when any amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed to by a twothirds vote of members elected such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on the Journal m full with the yeas and nays taken thereon
Caption or title only to be read in local bills
Rule 130 The first and second reading of local bills shall consist of the reading of the titles only unless said bill is ordered engrossed
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Rule 131 The Secretary and Assistant Secretary shall before entering on their duties as such take an oath before their presiding officer to discharge their duties faithfully and to the best of their skill and knowledge and the Secretary shall enter into bond in the sum of 5000 conditioned for faithful discharge of his duties Said bond to be approved by President of the Senate
Rule 132 All engrossing and enrolling clerks before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties shall take an oath before the President of the Senate to discharge their duties faithfully and to the best of their skill and knowledge of which a minute shall be made and entered on the Journals and no journalizing recording enrolling or engrossing clerk shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Senate until such clerk has been examined by the Committee on Senate Administrative Affairs and certified to be competent and well qualified for the discharge of the duties required of him and shall be removed at any time upon recommendation of the Committee on Senate Administrative Affairs
Rule 133 When there is a meeting of both branches of the General Assembly in joint session the Secretary shall enter in the journal of the Senate the proceedings of the same
Secretary to take oath and give bond
Oath of enrolling and engrossing Clerks
Must be examined by Senate
Administrative
Affairs
Committee
and be
recommended
by it as
competent
Secretary must enter on journals proceedings of joint sessions
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Rule 134 The President shall appoint the following standing committees which shall have the following number of Senators each
Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources13
Committee on Appropriations15
Committee on County and Municipal Governments11
Committee on Defense and Veterans Affairs7
Committee on Educational Matters13
Committee on Banking and Finance15
Committee on Government Operations5
Committee on Health and Welfare11
Committee on Highways17
Committee on Industry and Labor11
Committee on Interstate Cooperation5
Committee on Judiciary11
Committee on Penal and Correctional Affairs7
Committee on Public Utilities and Transportation9
Committee on Rules18
Committee on Senate Administrative Affairs5
Committee on Temperance9
The President shall appoint a Chairman a Vice Chairman and a Secretary on each committee It shall be the duty of the Chairman or in his absence the Vice Chairman to call meetings of the committee whenever in his discretion the business of the committee requires it and he shall call a meeting of the committee whenever onethird of the members so request The Secretary shall keep minutes of the meetings of the committee which shall be made available to any Sena
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tor but which shall not be matters of public record
In the absence of the Secretary the Chairman may designate some other member of the committee to act as Secretary In the absence of the Chairman the Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman In the absence of the Chairman and Vice Chairman the committee shall select one of its members to serve as acting Chairman
The Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations shall be appointed a member of the Committee on Banking and Finance and the Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Finance shall be appointed a member of the Committee on Appropriations
The President of the Senate shall be an exofficio member of all standing committees of the Senate but shall have no vote as an exofficio member except on the Committee on Rules of which he shall be Chairman
Each Senator shall be appointed to serve on three committees and no Senator shall be appointed to serve on more than four committees No Senator shall be appointed Chairman or Vice Chairman of more than one committee
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Rule 135 The following shall be the order of business
1 Prayer by the Chaplain
2 Call of the Roll
3 Report of Committee on Journals
4 Notices of motions to reconsider
5 Reading the Journal
6 Motions to reconsider
7 Confirmations of the Journal
8 Unanimous consents
9 Establishment of the order of business for the day
Rule 136 The report of the Committee on Rules shall be in order any time and messages from the Governor or from the House of Representatives may be received under any order of business
Rule 137 No change of or addition to these rules shall be made unless such proposed change or addition be submitted in writing and referred to the Committee on Rules and reported back to the Senate
Rule 138 The rules of the Senate shall in no case be suspended or changed or the order of business changed except by a twothirds vote a quorum of the Senate being present and voting
Rule 139 The Committee on Senate Administrative Affairs shall within 20 days after the beginning of each annual session audit the accounts of every Senator for expenses as a Com
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mitteeman or incurred in discharge of any duty as a member of the Senate since the last preceding annual session and shall within the said 20day period report its findings to the Senate listing the names of each such Senator and the general nature of the duty in which said expenses were incurred together with the amount thereof and the per diem received by such Senator in connection therewith Said committee shall report to the Senate for appropriate action any violations of law or these rules
Rule 140 When any question arises which is not provided for in the foregoing rules the same shall be controlled by the rules usually governing parliamentary bodies
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Lt Governor to be President of Senate Rule 141 The Lieutenant Governor shall be President of the Senate Art 5 Sec 1 Par 7
What is a quorum Compelling attendance Rule 142 A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to transact business but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the presence of its absent members as each House may provide Art 3 Sec 4 Par 4
Oath of members Rule 143 Each Senator and Representative before taking his seat shall take the following oath or affirmation towit I will support the Constitution of this State and of the United States and on all questions and measures which may come before me I will so conduct myself as will in my judgment be most conducive to the interest and prosperity of this State Art 3 Sec 4 Par 5
Majority required to pass bill Rule 144 No bill shall become a law unless it shall receive a majority of the votes of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and it shall in every instance appear on the Journal Art 3 Sec 7 Par 14
Yeas and nays order by onefifth of members Rule 145 The yeas and nays on any question shall at the desire of onefifth of the members present be entered on the Journal Art 3 Sec 7 Par 6
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Rule 146 No bill or resolution appropriating money shall become law unless upon its passage the yeas and nays in each House are recorded
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 12
Rule 147 Whenever the Constitution requires a vote of twothirds of either or both Houses for passage of an Act or resolution the yeas and nays on the passage thereof shall be entered on the Journal
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 19
Rule 148 Every bill before it shall pass shall be read three times and on three separate days in each House unless in cases of actual invasion or insurrection but the first and second reading of each local bill shall consist of the reading of the title only unless said bill is ordered to be engrossed
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 7
Rule 149 All bills for raising revenue or appropriating money shall originate in the House of Representatives but the Senate may propose or concur in amendment as in other bills
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 10
Rule 150 No law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 8
Rule 151 No law or section of the Code shall be amended or repealed by mere reference to its title or to the number of the section of the Code
Bill or resolutions appropriating money must pass by yeas and nays
Constitutional twothirds vote taken by yeas and nays
Revenue
bills
Reading of bills
One subject matter etc
An amendment to laws and sections of Code
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but the Amending or repealing Act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed as well as the alteration to be made
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 16
General Rule 152 Laws of a general nature shall
Laws how have uniform operation throughout the State and
varied no Special law shall be enacted in any case for
which provision has been made by an existing general law No general law affecting private rights shall be varied in any particular case by special legislation except with the free consent ancTwhen n writing of all persons to be affected thereby required and no person under legal disability to contract
is capable of such consent
Art 1 Sec 4 Par 1
Corpora
tions
Power delegated to courts
Rule 153 The General Assembly shall have no power to grant corporate powers and privileges to private companies to make or change election precincts nor to establish bridges or ferries nor to change names of legitimate children but it shall prescribe by law the manner in which such powers shall be exercised by the courts it may confer this authority to grant corporate powers and privileges to private companies to the judges of the superior courts of this State in vacation All corporate powers and privileges to banking trust insurance railroad canal navigation express and telegraph companies shall be issued and granted by the Secretary of State in such manner as shall be prescribed by law and if in any event the Secretary of State should be disqualified to act in any case then in that event the legislature shall provide by general laws by what person such charter shall be granted
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 17
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Rule 154 The General Assembly shall have no power to relieve principals or securities upon forfeited recognizances from the payment thereof either before or after judgment thereon unless the principal in the recognizance shall have been apprehended and placed in the custody of the proper officer
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 18
Rule 155 The General Appropriations bill shall embrace nothing except appropriation fixed by previous laws the ordinary expenses of the Executive Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Government paying of the public debt and interest thereon and for the support of the public institutions and educational interests of the State All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills each embracing but one subject
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 9
Rule 156 Neither House shall adjourn for more than three days or to any other place without the consent of the other and in case of disagreement between the two Houses on a question of adjournment the Governor may adjourn either or both of them
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 22
Rule 157 All elections by the General Assembly shall be viva voce ana the vote shall appear on the Journal of the House of Representatives When the Senate and House of Representatives unite for the purpose of elections they shall meet in the Representative Hall and the
Relief of recognizance
What the general appropriation bill shall contain Other appropriations by separate bills
Adjourn
ment
Elections
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Rejected bills again considered by a twothirds vote
President of the Senate shall in such cases preside and declare result
Art 3 Sec 10 Par 1
Rule 158 All acts shall be signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and no bill or resolution intended to have the effect of a law which shall have been rejected by either house shall be again proposed during the same session under the same or any other title without the consent of twothirds of the House by Which the same was rejected
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 13
Rule 159 Meeting of the General Assembly The General Assembly shall meet in regular session on the second Monday in January 1947 and biennially thereafter on the same day until the date shall be changed by law By concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of members elected to both Houses the General Assembly may adjourn any regular session to such later date as it may fix for reconvening in regular session but shall remain in regular session no longer than seventy 70 days in the aggregate during the term for which the members were elected If it shall adjourn the first regular session before the expiration of seventy 70 days without fixing a date for reconvening the General Assembly shall reconvene in regular session on the second Monday in January of the next year unless it shall have adjourned sine die All business pending in the Senate or House at the adjournment of any regular session may be considered at any later regular session of the same General Assembly as if there had been no adjournment Nothing herein shall be construed
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to effect the power of the Governor to convoke the General Assembly in extraordinary session or the duty of the Governor to convene the General Assembly in extraordinary session upon the certificate of threefifths of the members elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives as provided in Article V Section I Paragraph XII of this Constitution If an impeachment trial is pending at the end of any regular or extraordinary session the Senate may continue in session until such trial is completed The provisions of Paragraph III Section IV of Article III of the Constitution which this Constitution supersedes which apply to the meetings of the General Assembly shall continue in force until the second Monday in January 1947
Art 3 Sec 4 Par 3
Rule 160 Each House shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its members and shall have the power to punish them for disorderly behavior or misconduct by censure fine or imprisonment or expulsion but no member shall be expelled except by a vote of twothirds of the House to which he belongs
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 1
Rule 161 No provision in this Constitution for a twothirds vote of both houses of the General Assembly shall be construed to waive the necessity for the signature of the Governor as in any other case except in the case of the twothirds vote required to override the veto to submit constitutional amendments and in case of prolongation of a session of the General Assembly
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 21
Rule 162 The Governor shall have the revision of all bills passed by the General Assembly
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disorderly
conduct
Expulsion by twothirds vote
Signature of Governor when required
Governors
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Effect of twothirds vote thereon before the same shall become laws but twothirds of each House may pass a bill notwithstanding his dissent and if any bill should not be returned by the Governor within five days Sunday excepted after it has been presented to him the same shall be a law unless the General Assembly by their adjournment shall prevent its return He may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill and the latter shall not be effectual unless passed by twothirds of each House Art 5 Sec 1 Par 15
When Governor must approve Rule 163 Every vote resolution or order to which the concurrence of both houses may be necessary except on a question of election or adjournment shall be presented to the Governor and before it shall take effect be approved by him or being disapproved shall be repassed by twothirds of each house provided however that
Effect of twothirds vote nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to confer on the Governor the right to veto or enter his disapproval of any proposal made by the General Assembly to amend this Constitution Art 5 Sec 1 Par 16
Twothirds vote required Rule 164 No county site shall be changed or removed except by a twothirds vote of the qualified voters of the county voting at an election held for that purpose and by a majority vote of the General Assembly Art 11 Sec 1 Par 9
Twothirds vote required on amendments to Constitution Rule 165 Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives and if the same shall be agreed to by twothirds of the members
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elected to each of the two Houses such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their Journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon The General Assembly shall cause such amendment or amendments to be published in one or more newspapers in each Congressional District for two months previous to the time of holding the next general election at which election members of the General Assembly are chosen and if such proposed amendment directly affects only one or more political subdivisions of the State then it shall also be advertised in the area to be directly affected thereby and shall also provide for a submission of such proposed amendment or amendments to the people at said next general election and if the people shall ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon such amendment or amendments shall become a part of this Constitution provided that if the proposed amendment is not one that directly affects the whole State but only one or more subdmsions thereof said amendment shall not become a part of this Constitution unless it receive both a majority of the electors qualified to vote voting thereon in the State as a whole and also a majority of the electors qualified to vote voting thereon in the particular subdivision or subdivisions affected When more than one amendment is submitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately
Art 13 Sec 1 Par 1
Rule 166 No convention of the people shall be called by the General Assembly to revise amend or change this Constitution unless by the concurrence of twothirds of all members of each House of the General Assembly The rep
Twothirds
vote
required to call a convention How called
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Salaries of judges
reservation in said convention shall be based on population as near as practicable This Constitution shall not be revised amended or changed by the Convention until the proposed revision amendment or change has been submitted and ratified by the people in the manner provided for Submission and ratification of amendments proposed by the General Assembly
Art 13 Sec 1 Par 2
Rule 167 The Justices of the Supreme Court each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the judges of the Court of Appeals each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the Judges of the Superior Courts each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 6000 per annum and the Solicitors General shall each have out of the treasury of the State a salary of 25000 per annum with the right of the General Assembly to authorize any county to supplement the salary of a judge of the Superior Court and Solicitor General of the Juicial Circuit in which such county lies out of county funds provided however where such salary is at the time of the adoption of this Constitution being supplemented out of county funds under existing laws such laws shall remain in force until altered by the General Assembly Provided further that the Board of County Commissioners of Richmond County or the Ordinary or such other board or person as may from time to time have charge of the fiscal affairs of said county shall without further legislative action continue to supplement from said Countys treasury the salary of the Judge of Superior Court of the circuit of which the said County of Richmond is a part by the sum of Two Thousand 2000 Dollars per annum which shall be in addition to the amount received by said judge out
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of the State treasury and such payments are declared to be a part of the court expenses of said County and such payments shall be made to the judge now in office during his present or subsequent terms as well as to his successors with the authority in the General Assembly to increase such salary from the County treasury as above provided
The General Assembly shall have power at any time by a majority vote of each branch to abolish the fees at present accruing to the office of solicitor general in any particular judicial circuit and in lieu thereof to prescribe a salary for such office without regard to the uniformity of such salaries in the various circuits and shall have further power to determine what disposition shall be made of the fines forfeitures and fees accruing to the office of solicitor general in any such judicial circuit where the fees are abolished and likewise shall have the further power if it so desires to abolish such salary and reestablish such fees but in either event when so changed the change shall not become effective until the end of the term to which the solicitor general was elected
Art 6 Sec 12 Pars 1 and 21
Rule 168 No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the newspaper in which the Sheriffs advertisements for the locality affected ar published once a week for three weeks during a period of sixty days immediately preceding its introduction into the General Assembly No local or special bill shall become law unless there is attached to and made a part of said bill a copy of said notice certified by the publisher or accompanied by an affidavit of the author to the effect that said notice has
May be changed by a majority vote
Evidence of notice of local and special bills must be submitted before passage of same
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been published as provided by law No office to which a person has been elected shall be abolished nor the term of the office shortened or lengthened by local or special bill during the term for which such person was elected unless the same be approved by the people of the jurisdiction affected in a referendum on the question Where any local law shall add any member or members to any municipal or county governing authority the members of which are elected by the people such local law must provide that the member or members so added must be elected by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the political subdivision affected
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 15
Any Conference Committee report in the Senate must be adopted by a constitutional majority vote of the Senate
House Amendments to a Senate Bill must be adopted by a constitutional majority vote of the Senate
A RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the General Assembly of Georgia as follows
1 That no person be employed as a page who is under the age of 12 years and that each Senator be allowed to name not more than 1 page per day for 5 days during the session such days to be selected by said Senator and that the Lt Governor be allowed to name not more than two pages per day during each day of the session during which the Senate is in session
2 That not more than 1 doorkeeper and 4
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assistant doorkeepers be employed during each day in which the Senate is in session
3 That no person be paid for services rendered to the Senate in any capacity while such person is drawing any salary wages or other compensation from any other Department of the State
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RULES
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SENATE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
1 When nominations shall be made by the Governor to the Senate a future day shall be assigned for their considerations unless the Senate directs otherwise
2 When acting on executive business the Senate shall be cleared of all persons except the Senators the Secretary and Assistant Secretary
3 All information or remarks touching or concerning the character or qualifications of any person nominated by the Governor for office shall be kept secret
4 The Legislative and Executive proceedings of the Senate shall be kept in separate and distinct books except that a copy of the message transmitting information of definite action on appointments of the Governor shall be placed in the regular Journals of the Senate
5 All nominations approved by the Senate or otherwise definitely acted on shall be transmitted by the Secretary to the Governor with the determination of the Senate thereon from day to day as such proceedings may occur but no further extract from the Executive Journal shall be furnished published or otherwise communicated except as provided in Rule 4 during any session except by special order of the Senate and in transmitting the determination of the Senate thereon the Secretary shall in no instance furnish a list of the names of Senators voting in the affirmative or negative but only the fact of confirmation or rejection and the
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numerical vote and the record of votes shall be sealed and transmitted to the Secretary of States office there to be placed on file
6 A majority of a quorum shall be necessary to confirm the nomination to any office made by the Governor and sent to the Senate for approval When nominations are made by the Governor for any office which require the assent and approval of the Senate in executive session after the Secretary shall read the name of the party nominated and the position to which he is appointed the President shall put to the Senate the following Shall the nomination of the Governor be confirmed by the Senate Those who favor the confirmation will as your names are called vote Aye those opposed vote No After the roll is called the President will announce the result of the ballot and declare the result as follows It appears from the vote that a majority of the Senators have voted to confirm the appointment made by the Governor the same is hereby confirmed by the Senate or A majority of the Senators have voted against the confirmation of the nomination made by the Governor it is therefore rejected by the Senate
7 No Senator will be at liberty at any time or under any circumstances to expose or publish anything transpiring in executive session except only such matters as are required to be disclosed under the rules It is the intent and meaning of this rule that the business transacted in executive session shall be sacred and free from exposure to the outside world that every Senator shall be on his honor concerning the same
8 In Executive Session any member of the Senate shall be limited to ten 10 minutes in speaking for or against the confirmation of any nominee under consideration by the Senate
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RULES
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHEN ASSEMBLED IN JOINT SESSION
1 The time of the meeting of the two houses in joint session shall be determined by the concurrent resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives except where provided by law
2 The elections shall be viva voce and the vote shall appear on the Journal of the House of Representatives When the Senate and House of Representatives unite for the purpose of elections they shall meet in the Representative Hall and the President of the Senate shall in such cases preside and declare the result
3 The votes are to be taken for but one election at the same time and a majority of the whole number of votes cast is necessary to a choice
4 The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in joint session in the hall of the House of Representatives on the first Monday of every session at 10 oclock a m or at such time as may be fixed by joint resolution of both houses for the purpose of electing such offices of said State as are now or may hereafter be required to be elected by the General Assembly Said joint session shall continue in morning and afternoon sessions from day to day until all of said officers are elected
6 At the hour determined by the concurrent
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resolution the Senate shall repair to the Hall of the House of Representatives
6 The President of the Senate shall preside and announce that the General Assembly is in joint session and cause to be read the resolution convening the same He shall put all questions to the body and decide all questions of order An appeal may be taken from any of his decisions to the whole General Assembly
7 The Speaker of the House shall sit on the left of the President of the Senate
8 In announcing a candidate the mover shall not make any commendatory or other remarks
9 After a person is nominated for any office in joint session of the General Assembly it shall not be in order to second such nomination and when the nomination is declared closed the President shall forthwith order the rollcall and each member when called shall rise in his seat and respond promptly announcing distinctly his choice for such office
10 In the elections by the General Assembly no member after having voted shall be allowed to change his vote unless he will rise and state in his place that he voted by mistake or that his vote had been recorded by mistake
11 No debate shall be in order except as to questions of order
12 No motion to adjourn shall be in order In lieu thereof there shall be the motion to dissolve the joint session which shall be in the form That the joint session of the General Assembly
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be now dissolved or That the joint session of the General Assembly be now dissolved to be reconvened at a time named The latter motion shall have precedence of the former
13 The motion to dissolve the joint session either indefinitely or until a fixed time shall always be in order except that after the call of the roll has commenced it shall not be in order until after the result of said vote shall have been declared by the President of the Senate
14 When a motion to dissolve the joint session shall be decided in the negative the same shall not again be in order until other business shall have intervened
15 When a motion to dissolve the joint session either indefinitely or to a fixed time shall be decided in the affirmative the President of the Senate shall so declare and the Senate shall without further motion immediately repair to the Senate Chamber
16 The majority of each house shall be necessary to constitute a quorum of the joint session
17 These rules may be amended by the concurrent resolution of the two houses and they or either of them shall cease to be in force when either house shall notify the other house of the withdrawal of its consent to the same
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INDEX TO STANDING RULES OF Senate of Georgia
ABSENTEES Rule No
Arrest of when 99100
Call of SenateJ 100
Roll Call dispensed with when 97
Secretary duty as to Absentees 98
ADJOURN MOTION TO
Amendable not I 45
Debatable not 46
Definite time debatable when 47
Definite time Amendable when 47
Division not in order during 49
Effect when motion prevails 50
Main Question Ordered not in order 49 58
Precedence of j 4548
Previous Question motion for sustained motion to
adjourn in order 49 58
Shall not be made second time wheng 46
When in order464849 58
When not in order 49 58
Yeas and Nays being called hot in order 49
ADJOURNMENT
Constitutional time limit 112
Courtesy to President at 22
Effect when hour of arrives while Senate is acting
under previous question 51 58
Effect when hour of arrives while vote is being taken
by Yeas and Nays 51
Hour of Fixed by Senate H2
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ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS Rule No
Audit of Senators expenses 139
Clerks examine and approve 132
Clerks recommended removal of 132
ADVERSE REPORT
Bills and Resolutions adversely reported taken up
when 37
Debate on 59
Effect of on bills 37
Second Reading after when 37
AMENDMENTS
Adjourn motion to not amendable 46
Adjourn to definite time amendable when 47
Applicable to Amendments 78
Amendments to Amendments not amendable 78
Bills and Resolutions amended by sections 78 85
Bills and Resolutions perfected before substitute 79
Bills and Resolutions perfected before caption 84
Blanks must be filled in before 83
By Committee 117
Commit motion to amendable how 76
Committee Amendments take precedence 120
Committee shall not deface or interline bill but report
amendments on separate paper 117
Caption not considered until Bill perfected 84
Engrossment Effect of 36
General Appropriations Bill Senate may amend 128
General Tax Bill Senate may amend 128
Germane must be 122
House Amendments to S B 88 90
House Amendments to S B may be amended 88
House Amendments to S B Priority of motion to
amend 89
House Amendments to S B Priority of Questions on 90 House Amendments to S B Senate Amendment to not subject to amendment 88
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Rule No
Priority of 82 87120122
Priority of to perfect part proposed to be stricken87122
Priority of on passage of bill 120
Precedence of motion to amend 45
Postpone indefinitely motion to not amendable 68
Postpone definitely amendable 72
Reconsideration of when 95
Report of by committee 117
Report of Committee agreed to amendments after 80
Requirements of motion to amend 81
Secretary duty of when amendments made to bill
and resolutions by sections 85
Secretary duty of in amending by inserting and
striking out 86
Strike out motion to part to be stricken considered
first 122
Section by 85
Table amendments motion to not in order 52
Table motion to lay on or take from not amendable 55
Ways of making 78
When too late 8085
When made bill being considered by sections 85
Writing motion to amend must be in 81
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION
Journal proposed recorded in 129
Yeas and Nays recorded on 129
Majority required 129
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APPEALS Rule No
From Presidents decision 9
Member called to Order may appeal 15
No debate on appeals of personal character 8
Time of making 9
APPLAUSE
Prohibited in Galleries or Senate Chamber 25
APPROPRIATIONS
General Bill right of way 34
House must originate 128
Senate may amend appropriation bill 128
Yeas and Nays required 128
ATTENDANCE
Arrest of senators for nonattendance99100
Call of Senate 99
Messengers duty as to99100
Power to compel99100
President duty as to99100
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Adverse Committee report on 37
Amendments to 78
Amendments to passed on before caption or preamble
considered 84
Amendments Bill perfected first 79
Amendments to too late 8085
Amendments by sections 85
Amendments to when too late bill being considered
by sections 85
Amendments to by striking and inserting 86
Amendments by committees how reported 117
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
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Rule No
Bills perfected before substitutes 79
Caption not considered until bill perfected 84
Committee amendments take precedence 120
Committee amendments how reported 117
Committee reports on precedence of 40
Committee Report on effect of disposal of 3738
Committee Report favorable effect of 37 59
Committee Report unfavorable effect of 37 59
Commit motion to 45 73 76
Commitment to Committees 36
Debate none on first reading 36
Deface or interline no committee shall 117
Disagreement to favorable committee report effect of 38
Engrossment effect of 36
Entries on to be made by secretary 36
Form 41
First Reading no debate 36
General Appropriations bill takes precedence 34
General bills not placed for passage out of order by
unanimous consent 39
General Tax Bill takes precedencea 34
Immediate transmission to house 43
Local Bills effect of engrossment 130
Local Bills First and Second Readings 130
Local Bills third reading and placement for passage
by unanimous consent 39
Precedence of AAi 34
President duty to commit 36
Printing of 42
Reading of by unanimous consent 39
Recommit motion to 77
Requirements of 41
Reported by committee bill may be amended before
report agreed to 120
Reconsideration 9196
Reconsideration effect of 96
Second Reading after adverse committee report 37
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Rule No
Secretary duty of in amending by striking and
inserting 86
Secretary state author and number of when reading 34
Secretary to call in order on calendar 34
Special committee motion to commit to 73 74
Strike out motion to part to be stricken considered
first 122
Unanimous consent for reading or consideration 39
Withdrawal of 37
Substitute Bill perfected before 79
CALL OF THE SENATE
Contempt on 12
When in order12100
When main question ordered 65
CAPTION
Not considered until bill perfected 84
CHANGE OF VOTES
How and when 125
COMMITTEES
Amendments by how reported 117
Amendments by takes precedence 120
Appointment of 4134
Appropriations exofficio members of 134
Bills not to be interlined or defaced by 117
Chairman Appropriations and Finance exofficio
members 134
Change after announcement 109
Commit to motion to 73 77
Conference how and when constituted 119
Enlarged how 109
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
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Rule No
Exofficio members of
Finance exofficio members of
President appoint
President exofficio member of rules committee
Reports order of precedence
Recommit to motion to
Senators elected to fill vacancies committee assignments 6
Standing committees
134 134 4134 134 40 77
109
134
COMMIT MOTION TO
Amended how no
Applicable to what 73
Debate simple motion not debatable 75
Debate motion to commit with instructions debatable 75
Precedence among other motions 45
Precedence among motions to commit 74
Special Committee tOu ijg bj
Standing committee to takes precedence 74
Recommit motion to 77
CONTEMPT
By Outsiders
By Senators
On Call of the Senate
CONVERSATION
Presidents right to suppress Senators refrain from when
DEBATE
11
12100 12100
1
17
Adjourn motion to not debatable
Adjourn to definite time motion to debatable Adverse report debate on
46
47 59
78
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Rule No
Appeals from chair of personal character not
Bill or resolution no debate on first reading 36
Breach of order in debate
Change order of business motion to not debatable 105
Commit motion to not debatable 75
Commit with instructions motion to debatable 75
Committee matters reference to out of order in 23
Conduct of Senators in15 2122 23
Conversation reference to out of order in 23
Excuse from voting motion to not debatable 30
First reading of bill or resolution no debate 36
House happenings reference to out of order in 23
Incidental matters after motion for previous question
sustained decided without debate 66
Interrogation of speakers through president 21
Limitation of speeches 1
Minority report debate on 63
Nondebatable motion not in order when31121
Postpone definitely motion to debate limited 71
Postpone indefinitely motion to debatable 68
Previous Question motion for not debatable 58
Previous Question motion for decided affirmatively
debate limited 5963
Previous Question motion for incidental questions decided without debate 66
Priority of Business decided by President without
debate
Reading of papers question of decided without
debate 29
Roll Call no debate during 26
Suspend Rules motion to not debatable 105
Yeas and Nays motion for decided without debate 113
Yeas and Nays no debate during 26
DISPARAGING REMARKS
Prohibited on Nominations 24
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
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Rule No
DIVISION OF SENATE
After main question ordered 60
Call for 60
Excuse for voting motion to must be before 30
Senator may ask for 5 60
DIVISION OF QUESTION
Duty of member asking 33
Right to call for 32
What divisible 3233
ENGROSSMENT
Effect of 36
EXCEPTION TO WORDS SPOKEN
Procedure for taking 16
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Reference to Special Rules
Cleared Senate Chamber cleared of all persons except
senators secretary and assistant secretary 2
Journal message informing governor of action on
nominees record in regular journal
Journal separate journal for executive sessions
Journal secret 35
Governor informed of action on nominees by secretary 4
Limit as to time of speech
Nomination majority necessary to confirm
Nomination how put
Nomination when considered 1
Nominees discussion of secret 35
Nominees secretary inform governor of action on
C7I3aiC5C500013rfilt
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Rule No
Proceedings kept in separate book from legislative proceedings 4
Proceedings kept secret 3 5 7
Procedure 2 6
Remarks of Senators kept secret 3
Secretary and assistant in senate during session 2
Secretary duty as to journal 45
Secretary inform governor of action on nominees 5
Secrecy required 2357
Senate chamber cleared of all persons except senators secretary and assistant secretary during session 2 Senators shall not disclose proceedings or happenings of session 37
Votes on nominations kept secret 5
Votes record of sealed and filed with Secretary of
State 5
Votes result only announced 5
EXPLANATION OF VOTES
When and time allowed 28
EXPULSION OF MEMBERS
When and how 15
DOORKEEPER
Clear lobbies and galleries when 11
Messages duty in receiving 101
Suspension of 10
GALLERIES
Applause or hisses prohibited in 25
President may clear 11
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY Rule No
Minutes of joint sessions of kept in Senate Journal 133
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
Precedence of
Senate may amend only 18
GENERAL TAX BILL
Precedence of 4
Senate may amend only 18
GOVERNOR
Entitled to privileges of the Floor 110
HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT
Effect of arrival of 51 58
Effect of arrival of when Senate acting under previous question 5158
Effect of arrival of vote being taken by yeas and nays 51 Fixed by Senate lj
IMMEDIATE TRANSMISSION TO THE HOUSE
Majority vote necessary for 43
Reconsideration of motion for 94
When ordered 43
JOINT SESSION
RULES OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN JOINT SESSION References to Special Rules
Adjourn motion to see motion to dissolve
Appeals from decisions of chair 6
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LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Rule No I
Change of vote when allowed 10 I
Commendatory remarks prohibited 8 I
Elections by 24 910 I
Elections change of vote on 10 I
Elections majority for 3 I
Elections only one at time 3 I
Elections record of vote kept in House Journal 2
Elections vote how taken 2 39
Elections where held 2 I
Debate no debate except on points of order 11
Dissolve motion to not in order after roll call commenced 13
Dissolve motion to effect of when prevailing 15
Dissolve motion to and reconvene at definite time
takes precedence 13
Dissolve motion to definite and indefinite 12
Dissolve motion to when in order 13
Dissolve motion to when lost in order again when 14
Journal of House contain record of vote on elections 2
Majority necessary for election 3
Nominations no commendatory remarks by member
making 8
Nominations no second of in order 9
Nominations roll call on 9
Order points of debatable 11
Presiding Officer President of Senate 26
Presiding Officer duties of6915
Place of meeting 25
Procedure 6
Quorum 16
Roll Call on elections 9
Roll Commenced motion to dissolve not in order 13
Rules how changed 17
Rules consent of both houses to necessary 17
Senate repair to Hall of House of Representatives 5
Senate return to Senate Chamber on dissolution 15
Sessions continue how long 413
Speaker of House sit at left of President of Senate 7
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
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Rule No
State officers election of 4
Time of meeting 1
Voting 239
Vote change of
JOURNAL
Absentees Contain names of 98
Appropriations motion for yeas and nays recorded on 128
Committee on duty to read m
Constitutional amendments recorded in 129
Constitutional amendments yeas and nays recorded on 129 Constitution requires twothirds majority for passage of bill or resolution yeas and nays shall be recorded 129
General Assembly minutes kept in Senate 133
Oaths minutes of oaths kept in 132
Protest of Senators entry in 20
Reconsideration of matters in 91
Senators not voting on yeas and nays names entered in 107
LAUDATORY REMARKS
Prohibited 24
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Duties of HI
LOCAL BILLS
Engrossment effect of 130
First and Second reading 130
Reading of third time and put on passage by unanimous consent 39
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MAIN QUESTION Rule No
Adjourn motion to not in order after main question
ordered 4958
Call of Senate after ordered 65 I
Call of Senate after main question ordered 65
Debate time allowed for majority after main question
ordered 59
Debate time allowed minority after main questioned
ordered 63
Debate time allowed author after main question
ordered 636566
Division of Senate 60 I
Effect of when order58 5963 6566
Reconsideration of ordering 62
Table motion to not in order after main question
ordered 5758 I
Vote how taken when ordered 60
MAJORITY
Change rules or order of business necessary to44138
Election necessary for 127
MEMORIALS
Presentment and consideration 104
MINORITY REPORTS
Debate on 63
Minority may make reports how 123
MESSAGES
Consideration of 102
How sent received announced and considered 101
Received from the Governor or House at any time 136
When Received 102136
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85
MESSENGER Rule No
Arrest senators power to on order of president99100
Clear galleries and lobbies when H
Duty of on call of Senate 100
ExOfficio SergeantatArms 99
General duties
Suspension of
MOTIONS
Germane motion to amend must be 122
Nondebatable not in order whendl
One at time onlyrTvTili iok
Order of business motion to change not debatable iu
Order of business motion to change vote necessary44 Id
Order of priority
Privilege question of take precedence
Reading by secretary effect of
Read papers motion to not debatable
Rules motion to change or suspend vote necessary id
Rules motion to change or suspend how submitted ld7
Seconding not requiredv
Senator resume seat while motion is being put
Special Orders motion to make how submitted do
Statement of by chair effect of
Strike out motion to part to be stricken considered
first Idd
Unprivileged containing new matter lie on table one
day
Withdrawal of 1Ud
NEW MATTERS
Unprivileged motion containing lie on table one day 106 Unanimous consent for
86
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
NOMINATIONS Rule No
Disparaging remarks prohibited in 24
Laudatory Remarks prohibited in 24
OATHS
Assistant Secretary 131
Clerks Jjj 132 j
Entered in Journal 132
Secretarys 131 I
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Established 135
Majority necessary to change order fixed by rules
committee 44
Majority necessary to change order 138
Motion to change not debatable 105
Priority of decided by president without debate 14
Rules committee fix during last fifteen days of session 44 Special orders motion for how submitted 35
PAIRING
Not recognized 118
PARLIAMENTARY LAW
Applicable when 140
PETITIONS
Presentment and consideration 104
PREAMBLE
Not considered until bill or resolution perfected 84
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL 87
POSTPONE TO DEFINITE DAY MOTION TO Rule No
Applicable to what 72
Amendments subject to 72
Debate limited 71
Impossible day motion to postpone to treated how 72
Precedence of 4569
Renewal when lost cannot be made again the same
day 71
POSTPONE INDEFINITELY MOTION TO
Applicable to what 69
Amendments not subject to 68
Debate subject to 68
Effect when motion prevails 67
Impossible motion to postpone impossible day treated
how 72
Precedence of 4569
Renewal when lost motion cannot be again made on same matter 70
PRESIDENT
Absence of president pro tern preside 7
Adjournment Senators remain until president retires 22
Appeals from decision of8915
Arrest president may order of persons disturbing
senate 11
Arrest Senators power to order when absent99100
Attendance power to compel99100
Business priority of decided by 14
Call of Senate power and duty on1213100
Committees appointed by 4134
Commitment of bills and resolutions on first reading 36
Courtesy due by Senators to at adjournment 22
Conference Committee appointed by 119
Division may order 5
Galleries power to clear 11
Interrogation of senators through 21
Irrevelant debate power to suspend 1
88
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Rule No
Lobbies power to clear 11
Method of stating question 5
Messages duty on receiving 102
No quorum voting duty of president 1213
Recognition of Senators decided by 3
Rules committee exofficio chairman of 134
Signs all writs warrants etc of Senate 114
Silence power to command 1
Senator may name to preside 6
Senator may call to order for breach of rules 15
Senators elected after committees appointed president
may appoint to committees 109
Standing Committees appointment of 134
Suspension of officers by 10
Vote president required to when 2
Vacant chairmanships power to fill 109
PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE
Absence of president and president pro tempore secretary shall call election of president pro tempore 7 Duties of 7
PREVIOUS QUESTION
Adjournment effect of arrival of hour of Senate acting under 51
Adjourn motion to after motion for previous question
sustained 49 58
Affirmative vote on effect of58 59 63 66
Applicable to what 64
Call of Senate after previous question ordered 65
Debate regulated previous question decided affirmatively 5963
Debate motion for not subject to 58
Exhausted before matters excepted to decided 16
Incidental questions arising after previous question
ordered decided without debate 66
Precedence of motion for 45 58
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
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Rule No
Reconsideration 62
Table motion to after motion for previous question sustained V 5758
PRIVILEGE
Motion without to lie on table 106
Personal 126
Question of what constitute 126
Questions of take precedence 126
PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR
When extended to visitors 110
Who entitled to 110
PRINTING OF BILLS
When ordered 42
PROTESTS OF SENATORS
Procedure for 20
QUORUM
Call of Senate no quorum voting 100
No quorum voting duty of presidentl213100
No quorum voting president may order yeas and nays 13
READING OF PAPERS
Determined by Senate 29
RECOMMIT MOTION TO
Applicable to what 77
90
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
RECONSIDERATION Rule No
Amendments of 95
Applicable to what 91
Committee Reports of action on 38
Effect of 62 96
Immediate transmission motion for reconsidered
when 94
Intervening days effect of 94
Main question ordering of may be reconsidered 62
Main question ordering of may be reconsidered only
once 62
Notice required 92
One time no matter reconsidered but 93
Previous question reconsideration of 62
When and how asked 91 94
When motion for is in order 91
REMONSTRANCES
Presentment and Consideration 104
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Amendments after agreement to 80
Disagreement to effect of 38
Favorable report effect of 37
Form of 123
Minority reports 123
Procedure after 3738
Precedence of 40
Reconsideration of action on 38
Unfavorable report 37
Writing must be in 123
RULES
Change proposal to must be submitted in writing
and referred to Rules Committee 137
Majority necessary to change 138
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
91
Rule No
Special orders motion to make how submitted 35
Suspend motion to not debatable 108
Suspended how105 137 138
RULES COMMITTEE
Change in rules all proposals for submitted to 137
Order of business for last fifteen days fixed by 44
Report of in order at any time 136
Special orders must be reported on by 35
SECRETARY
Absence of president and president pro tem call election for president pro tem 7
Absentees note name of 98
Amending bills by sections duty of in 85
Amending bills by striking and inserting duty of in 86
Attest all writs warrants etc of Senate 114
Bills and Resolutions called in order by from calendar 34 Bills and Resolutions Engrossed Entries on to be
made by 36
Bills and Resolutions state number and author of in
calling 34
Bond of 131
Clerks appointment of 132
General assembly joint session keep minutes of 133
Journal duty to enter names of Senators not voting
on yeas and nays 107
Oath 131
SENATORS
Adjournment duty of at 22
Accounts of duty of auditing committee as to 139
Applause prohibited 25
Arrest power of president to order99100
Attendance power of president to compel99100
Call of Senate may ask 100
Call to order for transgression of rules 15
92
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Rule No
Committee assignments when elected after organization of Senate completed 109
Conduct in debate151718212325 31
Contempt of the Senate 12
Conversation refrain from 17
Courtesy owed Senator speaking 22
Debate how often speak 15
Debate reference to private conversations committee
or house happenings prohibit in 23
Decorum of 1517192125
Division of Question may ask for 32
Division of Question duty of Senator asking for 33
Division of Senate may ask for 5 60
Disparaging Remarks prohibited 24
Exceptions to words spoken 16
Expulsion of 15
Interrogation of through president 21
Laudatory remarks prohibited 24
Messenger duty of to 116
Motion make only one at time 27
Motion must resume seat while motion being put 27
Motion prohibited from making nondebatable when31121
Not voting names of entered in Journal 107
Pairing of not recognized 118
Per diem expenses 124
Personal Privilege 126
Preside president may designate Senators to 6
Protest of Senate action by 20
Reading of Papers call for 29
Recognition order of decided by president 3
Retire when required to 19
Retire not allowed to when 1299
Senators refer to Senators by districts and not by
name 18
Special Orders request for 35
Stationery messenger shall supply 116
Unanimous consent right to ask for 39
Vote changing how and when 125
Vote Explanation of 28
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
98
Rule No
Vote shall not when interested 19
Vote refusal to on call of Senate 12
Voting motion to excuse from 30
Yeas and Nays call for 60
SERGEANTATARMS
Duty of on Call of the Senate 100
Messenger exofficio 99
SIGNATURE OF PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
When required 114
SILENCE
Senators preserve 17
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Priority of Motion to commit to 7374
SPECIAL ORDER
How obtained 35
SUBSTITUTE
Bill perfected before 79
Table motion to not in order 52
SUSPENSION OF RULES
How accomplished 105137138
TABLE MOTION TO
Amendment motion to table not in order 52
94
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Rule No
Amendment motion to table or take from table not
subject to 55
Applicable to what 56
Debate motion to table or take from table not subject
to 55
Effect when motion to take from table prevails 53
Motion to take from table in order when 53 54
Main Question ordered motion to table not in order 57 58
Presence of 45
Previous Question motion for sustained motion to
table in order 57 58
Renewal of motion to table or take from table 54
Substitute not subject to 52
Unprivileged motion containing new matter lie on
table one day 106
When in order motion to table and take from table 54 57
TWOTHIRDS VOTE WHEN NECESSARY
Constitution Amendment 129
Expulsion of Senators 15
Yeas and Nays recorded when constitution requires 129
UNANIMOUS CONSENT
Explanation of vote by 28
Limitation and regulation of 39
Local bills considered by when 39
New matters consideration by 39
No request to extend time of explanation shall be entertained 28
YEAS AND NAYS
Adjournment effect of arrival of hour of while vote being taken by 51
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
95
Rule No
Adjourn motion to not in order during call of 49
Appropriations record of required on all 128
Call for after main question ordered 60
Change vote after call of 125
Constitution requiring twothird vote for passage of
bill yeas and nays shall be recorded 129
Constitution amendment to required and recorded on 129
Debate no debate during call of 26
Debate motion or call for not debatable 113
Explanation of vote when vote taken by 28
Excuse from voting motion to must be made before
start of 30
Expulsion of Senator vote by 15
Journal show when60128129
Journal show names of Senators not voting on 107
President may order no quorum voting 1213
Required when 60128129
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Seat Numbers of the Georgia House of Representatives
House of Representatives Numerically by Seat Number
1 Smith of Fulton
2 Rodgers of Charlton
3 Parker of Screven
4 Johnson of Jenkins
5 Odom of Camden
6 Winkle
7 Smith of Whitfield
8 Kelly
9 Lowrey
10 Scoggin
11 Hall of Floyd
12 Ballard
13 Tamplin
14 Murphy
15 Cheek
16 Magoon
17 Killian
18 Go wen
19 Paris
20 Stevens
21 Callier
22 Pelham
23 Shuman
24 Massee
25 Jessup
26 Baughman
27 Raulerson
28 Moorman
29 Musgrove
30 Parker of Appling
31 Cox
32 Matthews of Clarke
33 Phillips of Walton
34 Saffold
35 Fowler of Treutlen
36 Brooks of Fulton
37 McClelland
38 Blalock of Clayton
39 Lee
40 Lokey
41 Ray
42 Huddleston
43 Underwood
44 Palmer
45 Twitty
46 Deen
47 Barber
48 Wilkes
49 Kirkland
50 Larkins
51 Hodges
52 Parker of Ware
53 Sheffield
54 Carr
55 Summers
56 Stuckey
57 Milhollin
58 Williams of Coffee
59 McWhorter
60 Mackay
61 Rutland
62 Bagby
63 Lott
64 Fowler of Douglas
65 Moate
66 Boggs
67 Brooks of Oglethorpe
68 Wells of Oconee
69 Carswell of Wilkinson
70 Coker
71 Campbell
72 Pickard
73 Hollis
74 Dicus
75 Thornton
76 Phillips of Bibb
77 McKenna
78 Strickland
79 Lanier
80 Allen
81 Fordham
82 Kimmons
83 Story
84 Morgan
85 Rogers of Heard
86 Jones of Wayne
87 Chandler
88 Kidd
89 Reed
90 Holcombe
91 Willingham
92 Caldwell
93 Echols
94 Dorminy
95 Todd
96 Hill of Tattnall
97 Conner
98 Horton
99 Barrett
100 Irvin
101 Bynum
102 Dilworth
103 Green
104 Lovett
105 Love
106 Blalock of Coweta
107 Payton
108 Ross
109 Orr
110 Arnsdorff
111 Mann
112 Ingle
113 Floyd
114 Loggins
115 Hale
116 Melton
117 Bolton
118 Bradley
119 Keever
120 Coalson
121 McCown
122 Taylor of Dawson
123 Moore
124 Jordan of Calhoun
125 Barnett
126 Hedden
127 Branch
128 Bostick
129 Jones of Worth
130 Freeman
131 Johnson of Butts
132 Duiln
133 Matthews of Colquitt
134 Newton
135 Edwards
136 Fleming
137 Fuqua
138 Brennan
139 McGee
140 Cheatham
141 Birdsong
142 Phillips of Columbia
143 McCracken
144 Chance
145 Braswell
146 Hill of Meriwether
147 Lam
148 Joiner
149 Walker of Telfair
150 Hood
151 Smith of Lamar
152 Ellis
153 Jones of Sumter
154 Undercofler
155 Odom of Dougherty
156 Busbee
157 Miller
158 Bowen
159 McKemie
160 Jordan of Banks
161 Williams of Hall
162 Andrews
163 Lancaster
164 McGibony
165 Steis
166 Flynt
167 Brackin
168 Carswell of Burke
169 Tucker
170 Wells of Peach
171 Jones of Crawford
172 Hudson
173 Terry
174 Craven
175 Duncan
176 Singer
177 Black
178 Pickett
179 Jones of Union
180 Young
181 Dorsey
182 Watson
183 Gross
184 Hall of Lee
185 Cocke
186 Souter
187 Smith of Grady
188 Rowland
189 NeSmith
190 Denmark
191 White
192 Fitzgerald
193 Tabb
194 Goble
195 Mull
196 Budd
197 Walker of Lowndes
198 Otwell
199 Scott
200 Bozeman
201 Taylor of Decatur
202 Griffin
203 Hurst
204 King Rostrum
Geo L Smith II Speaker Rostrum
Glenn W Ellard Clerk
House of Representatives Alphabetically by Names
Allen 80
Andrews 162
Arnsdorff 110
Bagby 62
Ballard 12
Barber 47
Barnett 125
Barrett 99
Baughman 26
Birdsong 141
Black 177
Blalock of
Clayton 38
Blalock of
Coweta 106
Boggs c 66
Bolton 117
Bostick 128
Bowen 158
Bozeman 200
Brackin 167
Bradley 118
Branch 127
Braswell 145
Brennan 138
Brooks of
Fulton 36
Brooks of Oglethorpe 67
Budd 196
Busbee 156
Bynum 101
Caldwell 92
Callier 21
Campbell 71
Carr IfiHMtoj 54 Carswell of Burke 168
Carswell of
Wilkinson 69
Chance li144
Chandler 87
Cheatham 140
cheek15
Coalson 120
Cocke 185
Coker
Conner Q7
Cox 3i
Craven 174
Deen 45
Denmark 190
Dicus L 74
Dilworth 102
Fleming 136
Floyd 113
Flynt 166
Fordham 81
Fowler of Douglas 64
Fowler of Treutlen 35
Freeman 130 Fuqua i 137
Goble 194
Gowen 18
Green 103
Griffin 202
Gross 7183
Hale 115
Hall of Floyd 11
Hall of Lee184
Hedden 126
Hill of
Meriwether 146 Hill of Tattnall 96
Hodges 51
Holcombe 90
Hollis 73
Hood 150
Horton 98
Huddleston 42
Hudson 172
203 112 100 25
131
Dorminy Dorsey Duncan Dunn Echols Edwards Ellis
Fitzgerald
94 181 175 132 93 135 152 192
Hurst Ingle
Irvin
Jessup
Johnson of
Butts
Johnson of Jenkins 4
Joiner 148
Jones of
Crawford 171
Jones of
Sumter 153
Jones of
Union 179
Jones of Wayne 86 Jones of
Worth 129
Jordan of
Banks 160
Jordan of
Calhoun 124
Keever liq
Kelly g
Kidd Wk 88
Killiann Kimmons 82
King 204
Kirkland49
Lam 147
Lancaster163
Lanier 79
Larkins 50
Lee 39
Loggins 114
Lokey 40
Lott 63
Love 105 Lovett 104
Iowrey 9
Mackay 60
Magoon 16
Mann 111
Massee 24
Matthews of Clarke 32
Matthews of Colquitt 133
McClelland 37
McCown 121
McCracken 143
McGee 139
McGibony 164
McKemie 159
McKenna 77
McWhorter 59
Melton 116
Milhollin 57
Miller 157
Moate i 65
Moore 123
Moorman 28
Morgan 84
Mull KL 195
Murphy 14
Musgrove 29
NeSmith 189
Newton 134
Odom of Camden 5 Odom of Dougherty 155
Grr jog
Otwell 198
Palmer 44
Paris 19
Parker of Appling 30
Parker of
Screven 3
Parker of Ware 52 Payton 107
Pelham 22
Phllips of Bibb 76 Phillips of
Columbia 142
Phillips of Walton 33
Pickard 72
Pickett 178
Raulerson 27
Ray 4l
Reed 89
Rodgers of Cnairlton 2
Rogers of
Heard 85
Ross 108
Rowland 188
Rutland 61
Saffold 34
Scoggin 10
Scott 199
Sheffield L 53
Shuman 23
Singer 176
Smith of Fulton 1 Smith of Grady L187 Smith of Lamar 151 Smith of Whitfield 7
Souter 186
Steis 165
Stevens 20
Story 83
Strickland 78
Stuckey 56
Summers 55
Tabb 193
Tamplin 13
Taylor of
Dawson 122
Taylor of Decatur 201
Terry 173
Thornton 75
Todd 95
Tucker 169
Twitty 45
Undercofler 154
Underwood 43
Walker of Lowndes 197 Walker of
Telfair 149
Watson 182
Wells of
Oconee 68
Wells of Peach 170
White 191
Wilkes 48
Williams of Coffee J 58
Williams of Hall 161 Willingham 91
Winkle 6
Young l80
Rostrum
Geo L Smith II Speaker Rostrum
Glenn W Ellard Clerk
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OFFICERS OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TERM 1959 1960
GEO L SMITH II SpW
Emanuel County
GEORGE T B AGB Yv Speaker Pro Tem
Paulding County
GLENN W ELLARDClerk
Habersham County
JACK GREENAssistant
Rabun County
JANETTE HIRSCHAssistant
Fulton County
HUGH SKELTONJiAssistant
Hart County
AMELIA SMITHStSIif Assistant
Fulton County
BARBAR BATES sAssistant
DeKalb County
J R SMITH11Doorkeeper
Brantley County
ELMORE C THRASH v MpSSPnSPr
Lowndes County
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MEMBERS OF THE
GEORGIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED ACCORDING TO NAMES WITH COUNTIES AND POST OFFICES
FOR THE TERM 1959 1960
Representative County Post Office
Allen Francis W Bulloch Statesboro
Andrews Robert E Hall Gainesville
Arnsdorff B Frank Effingham Springfield
Bagby George T Paulding Dallas
Ballard W D Newton Covington
Barber Mac Jackson Cnmmeree
Barnett J L Leckey Baker Rt 1 Elmodel
Barrett Carl Cherokee Holly Springs
Baughman Leon Hodges Early Cedar Springs
Birdsong Frank G Troup LaGrange
Elec 4159
Black J Lucius Webster Preston
Blalock D B Coweta
Blalock Edgar Clayton Jonesboro
Boggs Harold A Madison Danielsville
Bolton Arthur K Spalding
Bostick Henry Tift
Bowen ADelbert Dell Randolph Cuthbert
Bozeman J W Jim Jr Thomas Meigs
Brackin J 0 Seminole
Bradley W H Bartow
Branch W Frank Tift Tifton
Braswell Oris Wheeler Alamo
Brennan Edward T Chatham Savannah
Brooks George B Oglethorpe Crawford
Brooks Wilson Fulton
See Trotter William P
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Representative
County
Post Office
Budd Roger MLowndesValdosta
Busbee George DDoughertyAlbany
Bynum KnoxluRabunClayton
Caldwell Johnnie LUpsonThomaston
Callier H ChrisTalbotTalbotton
Campbell AlbertWalkerLaFayette
Carr Buford WDooly Vienna
Carswell Geo HWilkinsonIrwinton
Carswell Porter WBurkeWaynesboro
Chance Homer LTwiggsDanville
Elec 4759
Chandler Philip MBaldwinMilledgeville
Cheatham Frank S JrChathamSavannah
Cheek Hugh GTaylorButler
Coalson Elmer JohnPolkRt 3 Rockmart
Cocke Steve MTerrellDawson
Coker Robert EWalkerLaFayette
Conner JimmysJeff DavisHazlehurst
Cox Julian HClarkeAthens
Craven S PLCarrollRt 1 Carrollton
Deen Braswell Drue JrBaconAlma
Denmark RoscoeLibertyHinesville
Dicus HarryLiMuscogeeColumbus
Dilworth AndersonFranklinRoyston
Dorminy ABC JrlBen HillFitzgerald
Dorsey James BWilcoxAbbeville
Duncan J EbbCarrollCarrollton
Dunn Lamar EPikeWilliamson
Echols Talmage BUpsonThomaston
Edwards C W SrRichmondth v jgpr
Ellis S ThomasHenrycDonougn
See Miller Jerre Chappell Jr LIBRARIES

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Representative County Post Office
Fitzgerald Byrom M Long Ludowici
Fleming William M Jr Richmond Augusta
Floyd James H Chattooga Trion
Flynt Wales T Taliaferro Crawfordville
Fordham Wiley B Bulloch Statesboro
Fowler A A Jr Douglas Douglasville
FwlfT Wyman Treutlen Soperton
Freeman William Bradford Monroe Forsyth
Fuqua J B Richmond Augusta
Oohlp Fd Gilmer Rt 4 Ellijay
Gowen Charles T Glynn Brunswick
Green Harry E Laurens Montrose
Griffin R A Cheney Decatur Bainbridge
Gross Frank L Stephens Toccoa
Hale Maddox J Dade Trenton
Hall H G Lee Leesburg
Hall J Battle Floyd Rome
Hedden Edward Towns Hiawassee
Hill Render Meriwether Greenville
Hill Wilton Tattnall Reidsville
Hodges Ben A Ware Way cross
Holcombe Eugene W Cobb Marietta
Hollis Howell Muscogee Columbus
Hood Tom C White Cleveland
Horton N Dudley Jr Putnam Eatonton
Huddleston Grady L Fayette Fayetteville
Hudson D D Trwin Oeilla
Hurst Joe J Quitman Georgetown
Ingle Bnford A Gordon Resaca
Irvin Thomas T Habersham Rt 1 Mt Airy
Jessup Ben Bleckley Cochran
Johnson M Merrill Jenkins Millen
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Representative County Post Office
Johnson Spencer H
Joiner Francis
Jones Clarence C
Jones David C
Jones Robert W
Jones Thad M
Jones W T
Jordan Luther
Jordan W Harvey
Keever Henry A
Kelly Roy R
Kidd Edwards Culver Jr
Killian William R
Kimmons W H Bill
King Joe N
Kirkland Joe
Lam C O
Lancaster Ulysses S
Lanier William L Bill
Larkins J Floyd
Lee William J Bill
Loggins Joseph E
Lokey Leonard N
Lott H W
Love John W Jr
Lovett W Herschel
Lowrey Sidney
Mackay James A
Magoon Harry
Mann James C
Massee R C Bob
Matthews Chappelle
Rntts Tndian Springs
Washington Tennille
Wayne Jesup
Worth Sylvester
Union Blairsville
SumterPlains
CrawfordRoberta
Banks Star Rt Lula
Calhoun T eary
Bartow Cartersville
Jasper Monticello
Baldwin Milledgeville
GlynnBrunswick
PierceBlackshear
Chattahoochee Cusseta
Atkinson Rt 1 Pearson
Troup Hogansville
Jones Rt 1 Gray
Candler Metter
Brantley Hoboken
Clayton Rt 1 Forest Park
Chattooga Summerville
McDuffie Thomson
Berrien Nashville
CatoosaRinggold
LaurensDublin
Floyd Rt 1 Rome
DeKalh Decatur
Hart Hartwell
Rockdale Conyers
Pulaski Hawkinsville
Clarke Athens
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Representative County Post Office
Matthews Dorsey Rhudolph Colquitt
McClelland RalphFulton
McCown W T BillPolk
McCracken J RoyJefferson
McGee Norman AChatham
McGibony T HampGreene
McKemie Henry GClay
McKenna Andrew WBibb
McWhorter W HughDeKalb
Melton Quimby JrSpalding
Milhollin Henry RCoffee
Miller Dr J HElbert
Miller Jerre Chappell JrTwiggs
Decd 12759
Moate Marvin EHancock
Moore Henry W JrLumpkin
Moorman Warren SLanier
Morgan HandselGwinnett
Mull ReidFannin
Murphy Harold LHaralson
Musgrove DowningClinch
NeSmith Jimmy DMeriwether
Newton David LColquitt
Odom Colquitt HurstDougherty
Odom John DCamden
Orr Wilbur A JrWilkes
Otwell Roy PForsyth
Palmer Tom C JrMitchell
Paris James WBarrow
Parker H WalsteinScreven
Parker Thomas AWare
Parker W C BillAppling
See Chance Homer L
Rt 1 Moultrie
Atlanta
Cedartown
Avera
Savannah
Greensboro
Coleman
Macon
Decatur
Griffin Rt 2 Douglas Elberton J eff er sonville
Sparta
Dahlonega
Lakeland
Buford
Blue Ridge
Buchanan
Homerville
Manchester
Rt2Norman Park
Albany
Kingsland
Washington
Cumming
Pelham
Winder
Rt 6 Sylvania
Way cross
Baxley
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Representative County Post Office
Payton Henry N Coweta Newnan
Pelham B E Schley Ellaville
Phillips Glenn S Cnlnmhia Harlem
Phillips John Lee Walton Monroe
Phillips J Taylor Rihh Macon
Pickard Mac Muscogee Columbus
Pickett W Hays Pickens Jasper
Raulerson Louis T Echols Haylow
Ray Jack B Warren Norwood
Reed Raymond M Cobb Smyrna
Rodgers H Ben Charlton Folkston
Rogers J Artie Heard Franklin
Ross Ben B Lincoln Lincolnton
Rowland Emory L Johnson Wrightsville
Rutland Guy W Jr DeKalb Decatur
Saffold R E Toombs Vidalia
Scoggin Robert L Bob Floyd Rome
Scott W Fred Thomas Tb omasyille
Sheffield John E Jr Brooks Quitman
Shuman Jack W Bryan Pembroke
Singer Sam S Stewart Lumpkin
Smith Geo L II Emanuel Swainsboro
Smith George T Grady Cairo
Smith J R Lamar Barnesville
Smith M M Muggsy Fulton Atlanta
Smith Virgil T Whitfield Dalton
Souter J Lester Macon Montezuma
Steis William Burton Harris Hamilton
Stevens E C Hamp Marion Buena Vista
Story Earl P Gwinnett Lawrenoeville
Strickland Ernest W Evans Rt 2 Claxton
Stuckey W S Dodge Eastman
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Representative County Post Office
Summers Marvin LesterCrispRt 2 Cordele
Tabb BuckMillerColquitt
Tamplin Howard HMorganMadison
Taylor HenryDawsonStar Rt
Gainesville
Taylor John LDecaturAttapulgus
Terry A FMurrayChatsworth
Thornton Richard BBibbMacon
Elec 102859
Todd W GGlascockGibson
Trotter William PTITroupLaGrange
Res 22059
Tucker M KingBurkeWaynesboro
Twitty Frank SMitchellCamilla
Undercofler Hiram KSumterAmericus
Underwood Joe CMontgomeryMt Vernon
Walker Fred HLowndes Valdosta
Walker Wimbric Telfair McRae
Watson R HermanHoustonWarner Robins
Wells D WarnerPeach1Fort Valley
Wells Hubert HOconeeWatkinsville
White Daniel H MeTntosh Darien
Wilkes Wilson B Cook Adel
Williams George J Coffee Rt 1 Axson
Williams W M Bill Hall Gainesville
Willingham Harold S Cobb Marietta
Wilson Edgar H Bibb Macon
Resg 91459
Winkle Homer E Whitfield Dalton
Young Clyde S Turner Rebecca
See Wilson Edgar H See Birdsong Frank G See Thornton Richard B
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MEMBERS OF THE
GEORGIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BY COUNTIES AND POST OFFICES FOR THE TERM 1959 1960
County Representative Post Office
Appling W C Bill Parker Baxley
Atkinson Joe Kirkland Rt 1 PpATann
Bacon Braswell Drue Deen Jr
Baker J L Leckey Barnett Rt 1 Elmodel
Baldwin Edwards Culver Kidd Jr
Baldwin Philip M Chandler Milledgeville
Banks Luther Jordan
Barrow James W Paris Winder
Bartow Henry A Keever Cartersville
Bartow W H Bradley Cartersville
Ben Hill ABC Dorminy Jr Fitzgerald
Berrien H W Lott Nashville
Bibb J Taylor Phillips Macon
Bibb Edgar H Wilson Macon
Resg 91459
Sue by Richard B Thornton Macon
Elec 102859
Bibb Andrew W McKenna Macon
Bleckley Ben Jessup Cochran
Brantley J Floyd Larkins Hoboken
Brooks John E Sheffield Jr Quitman
Bryan Jack W Shuman Pembroke
Bulloch Francis W Allen Statesboro
Bulloch Wiley B Fordham Stateshrirn
Burke Porter W Carswell Waynesboro
Burke M King Tucker
Butts Spencer H Johnson Indian Springs
Calhoun W Harvey Jordan Leary
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Camden1John D OdomlKingsland
CandlerIWilliam L Bill LanierMetter
CarrollS P Craven1 l Rt 1 Carrollton
CarrollJ Ebb DuncanCarrollton
CatoosaJohn W Love JrRinggold
Charlton H Ben RodgersFolkston
ChathamEdward T BrennanSavannah
Chatham Norman A McGeeSavannah
ChathamFrank S Cheatham JrSavannah
Chattahoochee Joe N King Cusseta
ChattoogaJoseph E LogginsJSummerville
ChattoogaJames H FloydTrion
GherokeeCarl BarrettHolly Springs
ClarkeJulian H CoxAthens
ClarkeChappelle Matthews Athens
ClayHenry G McKemieColeman
ClaytonEdgar Blalock Jonesboro
ClaytonWilliam J Bill LeeRt 1 Forest Park
Clinchi Downing MusgroveHomerville
CobbHarold S WillinghamMarietta
CobbRaymond M Reed Smyrna
CobbEugene W HolcombeMarietta
CoffeeGeorge J WilliamsRt 1 Axson
CoffeeHenry R MilhollinRt 2 Douglas
ColquittDorsey Rhudolph MatthewsRt 1 Moultrie
Colquitti David L NewtonRt2Norman Park
ColumbiaGlenn S PhillipsHarlem
CookWilson B WilkesIAdel
CowetaHenry N PaytonNewnan
CowetaD B Blalock Newnan
CrawfordW T JonesRoberta
Crispt Marvin Lester SummersRt 2 Cordele
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County Representative Post Office
DadeMaddox J HaleTrenton
DawsonHenry TaylorStar Rt
Gainesville
DecaturR A Cheney GriffinBainbridge
DecaturJohn L Taylor Attapulgus
DeKalbJanies A Mackay Decatur
DeKalbW Hugh McWhorterDecatur
DeKalbGuy W Rutland JrL Decatur
DodgeW S StuckeyEastman
DoolyBuford W Carr Vienna
DoughertyGeorge D BusbeeAlbany
DoughertyColquitt Hurst Odom Albany
DouglasA A Fowler Jr41Douglasville
EarlyLeon Hodges BaughmanCedar Springs
EcholsLouis T RaulersonHaylow
EffinghamB Frank ArnsdorffSpringfield
ElbertDr J H MillerIElberton
EmanuelGeo L Smith IISwainsboro
EvansErnest W StricklandRt 2 Claxton
FanninReid MullBlue Ridge
FayetteGrady L HuddlestonFayetteville
Floyd1J Battle HallRome
FloydSidney LowreyRt 1 Rome
FloydRobert L Bob ScogginRome
ForsythRoy P OtwellCumming
FranklinAnderson DilworthRoyston
FultonWilson Brooks Atlanta
Fulton Ralph McClelland Atlanta
Gilmer Ed Goble Rt 4 Ellijy
Glascock W G Todd Gibson
Glynn William R Killian Brunswick
Glynn Charles L Gowen Brunswick
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County Representative
GordonBuford A Ingle
GradyGeorge T Smith
GreeneT Hamp McGibony
GwinnettEarl P Story
GwinnettHandsel Morgan
HabershamThomas T Irvin
HallRobert E Andrews
HallW M Bill Williams
HancockMarvin E Moate
HaralsonHarold L Murphy
HarrisWilliam Burton Steis
HartHarry Magoon
HeardJ Artie Rogers
HenryrS Thomas Ellis
HoustonR Herman Watson
IrwinD D Hudsoni
JacksonMac Barber
JasperRoy R Kelly
Jeff DavisJimmy Conner
JeffersonJ Roy McCracken
JenkinsM Merrill Johnson
JohnsonEmory L Rowland
JonesUlysses S Lancaster
Lamar J R Smith
LanierWarren S Moorman
LaurensW Herschel Lovett
LaurensHarry E Green
LeeH G Hall
LibertyRoscoe Denmark
Lincoln Ben B Ross
LongByrom M Fitzgerald
TiowndesFred H Walker
Post Office
Resaca Cairo Greensboro Lawrenceville Buford
Rt 1 MtAiry Gainesville Gainesville Sparta Buchanan Hamilton Hartwell FranklinMcDonough Warner Robins Ocilla Commerce Monticello Hazlehurst Avera Millen Wrightsville Rt 1 Gray Barnesville Lakeland Dublin Montrose Leesburg Hinesville Lincolnton Ludowici Valdosta
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County
Lowndes
Lumpkin
Macon
Madison
Marion
McDuffie
McIntosh
Meriwether Meriwether
Miller
Mitchell
Mitchell
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Murray
Muscogee
Muscogee
Muscogee
Newton
Oconee
Oglethorpe
Paulding
Peach
Pickens
Pierce
Pikei
Polk
JPolk
Pulaski
Putnam
Quitman
Representative Post Office
Roger M Rudd Valdosta
TTenry W Moore Jr Dahlonega
J Lester Souter Montezuma
Harold A Boggs Danielsville
E TTarnp Stevens Buena Vista
Leonard N Lokey Thomson
Daniel H White Darien
Render Hill Greenville
Jimmy D NeSmith Manchester
Buck Tahb Colquitt
Era nk S T witty Camilla
Tom C Palmer Jr Pelham
William Bradford Freeman Forsyth
Joe C Underwood Mt Vernon
Howard H Tamplin Madison
A F Terry Chats worth
Howell Hollis Columbus
Mac Pickard Columbus
Harry Dicus Columbus
W D Ballard Covington
Hubert H Wells Watkins ville
George B Brooks Crawford
George T Bagby Dallas
D Warner Wells Fort Valley
W Hays Pickett Jasper
W H Bill Kimmons Blackshear
Lamar E Dunn Williamson
Elmer John Coalson Rockmart
W T Bill McCown Cedartown
R C Bob Massee Hawkinsville
N Dudley Horton Jr Eatonton
Joe J Hurst Georgetown
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County Representative Post Office
Rabun Tinov Rynnm Clayton
Randolph ADelbert Dell Bowen Cuthbert
Richmond C W Edwards Sr Augusta
Richmond William M Fleming1 Tr Angnsffl
Richmond J B Fuqua Augusta
Rockdale James C Mann Conyers
Schley B E Pelham Ellaville
Screven H Walstein Parker Rt Sylvania
Seminole J 0 Brackin Tron City
Spalding Quimby Melton Jr Griffin
Spalding Arthur K Bolton Rt B Griffin
Stephens Frank L Gross Tooooa
Stewart Sam S Singer Lumpkin
Sumter Hiram K Undercofler Americus
Sumter Thad M Tones Plains
Talbot H Chris Callier Talhottou
Taliaferro Wales T Flynt Crawfordville
Tattnall Wilton Hill Reidsville
Taylor Hugh G Cheek Butler
Telfair Wi rubric Walker McRae
Terrell Steve M Cooke Dawson
Thomas J W iJimi Bozeman Jr Meigs
Thomas W Fred Scott TTiomasville
Tift Henry Bostick Tifton
Tift W Frank Branch Tifton
Toombs R E Saffold Vidalia
Towns Edward Hedden Hiawassee
Treutlen Wyman Fowler Soperton
Troup C O Lam Hogansville
Troup William P Trotter La Grange
Res 22059
Suc by Frank G BirdsongLaGrange
Elec 4159
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County Representative Post Office
Clyde S Young Rebecca
Twiggs Terre Chappell Miller Jr Jeffersonville
Decd 12759
Sue by Homer L Chance Danville
Elec 4759
Union Robert W Jones Blairsville
Upson Johnnie L Caldwell Thomaston
Upson Talmage B Echols Thomaston
Albert Campbell LaFayette
Walker Robert E Coker LaFayette
Walton John Lee Phillips Monroe
Ware Ben A Hodges Way cross
Thomas A Parker Waycross
WfirTPTI Tack B Ray Norwood
W icli l n otfm Francis Joiner Tennille
fly T p Clarence C Jones Jesup
T Lucius Black Preston
Oris Braswell Alamo
White Tom C Hood Cleveland
pT Virgil T Smith Dalton
Whitfield Homer E Winkle Dalton
Wilcov James B Dorsey Abbeville
Wilkes Wilbur A Orr Jr Washington
Wilkinson Geo H Carswell Irwinton
Worth David C Jones Sylvester
STANDING COMMITTEES
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TERM 1959 1960
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AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
Lanier Chairman Fowler of Douglas
V iceChairman Kelly Secretary Andrews Arnsdorff Barnett Bozeman Brackin Callier
Carswell of Burke
Chance
Conner
Craven
Dorminy
Dunn
Fowler of Treutlen Hall of Lee Hudson Hurst
Jones of Union
Jordan of Calhoun
Kirkland
Lancaster
Lott
Lowrey
Matthews of Colquitt
McKemie
Newton
Parker of Screven Parker of Ware Raulerson Rogers of Heard Saffold Strickland Stuckey Tamplin
Taylor of Decatur Terry
Wells of Oconee Williams of Coffee Young
SubCommittees of Agriculture Committee
GENERAL AGRICULTURE MATTERS COMMITTEE
Matthews of Colquitt Barnett
Chairman Brackin
Terry ViceChairman Callier
McKemie Secretary Kelly
MILK MILK CONTROL COMMITTEE Tamplin Chairman Hudson
Lowrey ViceChairman Raulerson
Parker of Screven Secretary Taylor of Decatur
Dunn
MARKETS MARKETING COMMITTEE Carswell of Burke Chairman Lott
Hurst ViceChairman Newton
Lancaster Secretary Stuckey
Jordan of Calhoun
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AGRICULTURE CHEMISTRY ENTOMOLOGY COMMITTEE
Parker of Ware Chairman Fowler of Treutlen
Conner ViceChairman Young
Kirkland Secretary
LIVESTOCK MATTERS COMMITTEE
Rogers of Heard Chairman Dorminy
Craven ViceChairman Saffold
Bozeman Secretary Williams of Coffee
Arnsdorff

POULTRY MATTERS COMMITTEE
Fowler of Douglas Chairman Andrews
Jones of Union ViceChairman Chance
Strickland Secretary Wells of Oconee
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
Cheatham Chairman Scoggin ViceChairman Bowen Secretary Barber Barrett Branch Callier Cox
Duncan
Ellis
Fordham
Fowler of Douglas Griffin Holcombe Huddleston Hurst
Jones of Sumter Jones of Crawford
Lott Love Lovett McKennaV McClelland s McKemie McWhorter
Melton
Moore
Murphy
Odom of Dougherty
Pelham
Pickard
Scott
Story
Taylor of Decatur Todd
Willingham v
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SubCommittees of Appropriations Committee
DEPARTMENT of revenue committee
Scoggin Chairman Callier
Lott ViceChairman Huddleston
McKenna Secretary
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Cox Chairman Duncan
Story ViceChairman Taylor of Decatur
Fordham Secretary
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT RELATED AGENCIES COMMITTEE
Ellis Chairman Lovett
Jones of Crawford Scott
ViceChairman Branch Secretary
HEALTH WELFARE RELATED AGENCIES COMMITTEE
McWhorter Chairman Fordham ViceChairman Todd Secretary
Jones of Sumter Melton
AGRICULTURE PARKS PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
Murphy Chairman McKemie
Barrett ViceChairman Moore
Hurst Secretary
LABOR DEFENSE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
Barber Chairman Love
Pelham ViceChairman Willingham
Holcombe Secretary
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LAW LEGISLATIVE REGULATORY AGENCIES COMMITTEE
Fowler of Douglas Chairman Odom of Dougherty
McClelland ViceChairman Pickard
Bowen Secretary
AUDITING ENROLLING ENGROSSING Black Chairman Brooks of Oglethorpe
V iceChairman Rowland Secretary Baughman Campbell Carr Coker Dorsey
JOURNALS COMMITTEE
Fitzgerald
Goble
Hood
Jones of Sumter Pickard
Rodgers of Charlton Smith of Whitfield Wells of Peach
BANKS BANKING Fuqua Chairman Pelham ViceChairman Walker of Lowndes Secretary Braswell Brennan Chance Echols Jessup
Jones of Worth Jordan of Calhoun Lam
COMMITTEE
Mackay
McClelland
McGibony
Musgrove
NeSmith
Otwell
Scott
Singer
Souter
Underwood
SubCommittees of Banks Banking Committee
GENERAL BANKING COMMITTEE
Otwell Chairman Lam
Brennan ViceChairman McGibony
Scott Secretary
INDUSTRIAL LOANS COMMITTEE
Underwood Chairman Echols
Mackay ViceChairman Jessup
Jordan of Calhoun Secretary
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DEFENSE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Floyd Chairman Carswell of Burke ViceChairman Deen Secretary Braswell
Carswell of Wilkinson
Craven
Dunn
Fowler of Douglas Griffin
Huddleston
Jordan of Banks
Ingle
Keever
Magoon
McKenna
Smith of Whitfield
Steis
Summers
SubCommittees of Defense Veterans Affairs Committee
MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Ingle Chairman Huddleston
McKenna ViceChairman Fowler of Douglas Secretary
CIVIL DEFENSE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Summers Chairman Braswell
Smith of Whitfield Craven
ViceChairman Deen
Magoon Secretary Keever
VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Steis Chairman Griffin ViceChairman Dunn Secretary
Carswell of Burke Carswell of Wilkinson
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Hall of Floyd Chairman Caldwell
McWhorter ViceChairman Cheek
Hill of Tattnall Secretary Deen
Bradley y Dilworth
Busbee Duncan
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Dunn
Edwards
Fowler of Treutlen
Ingle
Irvin
Jones of Crawford Lam
Lancaster
Lovett
Melton
McGee
McGibony
Morgan
Murphy
Newton
Odom of Camden
Parker of Appling
Payton
Story
Stuckey
Taylor of Decatur
Thornton
Todd
Williams of Coffee
SubCommittees of Education Committee
COMMON SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
Lovett Chairman Irvin
Fowler of Treutlen Melton
ViceChairman Odom of Camden
Lam Secretary Parker of Appling
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Deen Chairman Cheek
Ingle ViceChairman Murphy
Williams of Coffee Secretary Newton
SCHOOL BUILDINGS SUPPLIES COMMITTEE
Lancaster Chairman Taylor of Decatur
V iceChairman Todd Secretary
Caldwell
Dilworth
Jones of Crawford
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
Duncan Chairman Bradley
McGibony ViceChairman Edwards
Dunn Secretary Story
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AUTHORITIES RETIREMENT SYSTEM COMMITTEE Payton Chairman Busbee
McGee ViceChairman Stuckey
Morgan Secretary Thornton
HIGHWAY COMMITTEE
Blalock of Coweta Chairman Mann ViceChairman Ballard Secretary Barnett Baughman Bradley Bostick Bowen Budd Bynum Campbell Edwards Fitzgerald Fordham Green
Hale
Hodges
Johnson of Butts Joiner
Jones of Union Kirkland
Matthews of Colquitt
McCown
Milhollin
Saffold
Scott
Strickland
Watson
Wilkes
SubCommittees of Highway Committee
STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM COMMITTEE Campbell Chairman Green
Scott ViceChairman Johnson of Butts
Milhollin Secretary Jones of Union
Budd
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM COMMITTEE Fordham Chairman McCown
Bradley ViceChairman Strickland
Bowen Secretary Watson
Hale
HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES COMMITTEE
Hodges Chairman Barnett
Saffold ViceChairman Wilkes
Edwards Secretary
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HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE SHOP FACILITIES COMMITTEE
Baughman Chairman Kirkland
Joiner ViceChairman Matthews of Colquitt
Bostick Secretary
HYGIENE SANITATION COMMITTEE
Palmer Chairman Keever
Allen ViceChairman Kidd
Rogers of Heard Secretary Larkins
Arnsdorff Lowrey
Birdsong Massee
Carswell of Wilkinson McKemie
Cocke Morgan
Dilworth Mull
Dorminy Newton
Hood Ross
Hedden Strickland
SubCommittees of Hygiene Sanitation Committee
GENERAL HEALTH COMMITTEE
Ross Chairman Dilworth
Hood ViceChairman Lowrey
Carswell of Wilkinson
Secretary
PURE FOODS DRUGS COMMITTEE
Rogers of Heard Chairman Hedden
Dorminy ViceChairman Kidd
Massee Secretary
PROFESSIONS RELATING TO HYGIENE SANITATION COMMITTEE
Allen Chairman Cocke ViceChairman Arnsdorff Secretary
Birdsong
Strickland
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Larkins Chairman Mull ViceChairman Keever Secretary
FOR AGED COMMITTEE
McKemie
Morgan
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Lovett Chairman Irvin ViceChairman Bagby Secretary Birdsong Branch Brooks
Hill of Meriwether
Holcombe
Jones of Union
Kelly
Lam
Lee
Loggins
Lokey
Lott
McCown
Morgan
Paris
Ray
Rowland
Singer
Twitty
SubCommittees of Industrial Relations Committee
WORKMEN COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Bagby Chairman Irvin
Kelly ViceChairman McCown
Lokey Secretary Twitty
GENERAL LABOR AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Ray Chairman Birdono
Hill of Meriwether Branch
ViceChairman Lam
Jones of Union Secretary Paris
EMPLOYMENT
Lee Chairman Brooks of Fulton ViceChairman
SERVICES COMMITTEE
Loggins Secretary Lott Singer
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INDUSTRY COMMITTEE
Pickard Chairman Jones of Sumter ViceChairman Budd Secretary Black Callier Coalson Fleming Flynt Gowen
Hill of Meriwether
Horton
Loggins
Mann
Massee
Mull
Phillips of Bibb Phillips of Columbia Shuman
Smith of Whitfield
Souter
Stevens
Stuckey
Tamplin
Tuckr
Walker of Telfair Williams of Coffee
SubCommittees of Industry Committee
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Budd Chairman Phillips of Columbia
Tucker ViceChairman Stevens
Fleming Secretary
TOURIST RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Souter Chairman Massee
Stuckey ViceChairman Shuman
Phillips of Bibb Secretary Smith of Whitfield
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION COORDINATION COMMITTEE
Jones of Sumter Chairman Hill of Meriwether Secretary Walker of Telfair Flynt
ViceChairman Mann
INSURANCE COMMITTEE
Hollis Chairman Jones of Worth
V iceChairman Wilkes Secretary
Ballard
Bowen
Brooks of Oglethorpe Carswell of Burke
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Conner
Dicus
Dorminy
Echols
Holcombe
Jones of Crawford
Kimmons
Lanier
McCracken
McWhorter
NeSmith
Orr
Ross
Smith of Fulton
Steis
Terry
SubCommittees of Insurance Committee
HEALTH LIFE ACCIDENT COMMITTEE
Wilkes Chairman McCracken
Holcombe ViceChairman Orr
Conner Secretary Steis
Brooks of Oglethorpe
FIRE CASUALTY ALLIED LINES COMMITTEE
Jones of Worth Chairman Terry ViceChairman NeSmith Secretary Echols
Kimmons
Lanier
McWhorter
SURETY TITLE COMMITTEE
Ross Chairman Ballard ViceChairman Carswell of Burke Secretary Bowen
Dicus
Dorminy
Smith of Fulton
INTERSTATE COOPERATION COMMITTEE
Phillips of Columbia Ray Secretary
Chairman McCrrkpn
Tamplin ViceChairman Twitty
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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Gowen Chairman Orr ViceChairman Busbee Secretary Allen Andrews Boggs Brennan
Brooks of Fulton
Bynum
Caldwell
Cheatham
Hale
Hollis
Keever
Killian
Loggins
McClelland
Moate
Phillips of Bibb Pickett Reed Scoggin
Smith of Grady Thornton
Walker of Lowndes Wells of Peach White
SubCommittees of Judiciary Committee
GENERAL LAW PROCEDURE COMMITTEE
Walker of Lowndes Chairman Allen
Brooks of Fulton McClelland
V iceChairman Phillips of Bibb Secretary
TRUSTS ESTATES COMMITTEE
Brennan Chairman Killian
Smith of Grady ViceChairman Scoggin
Boggs Secretary
LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE
Moate Chairman Hale
Reed ViceChairman Paris
Keever Secretary
PARDONS PAROLES COMMITTEE
Wells of Peach Chairman Caldwell
Andrews ViceChairman White
Loggins Secretary
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LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Underwood Chairman Killian ViceChairman Pickett Secretary Brackin Cocke
Hall of Floyd Hedden
Hill of Tattnall Hudson
Jones of Wayne Kimmons
Mackay
Milhollin
Parker of Screven
Sheffield
Shuman
Smith of Lamar Tabb
Taylor of Dawson Terry
Undercofler
MOTOR VEHICLES COMMITTEE
Cheek Chairman Kidd ViceChairman Moorman Secretary
Blalock of Clayton
Brackin
Budd
Carr
Denmark
Green
Gross
Horton
Jessup
Johnson of Jenkins Jones of Wayne
Lee
Matthews of Clarke
McCracken
McGee
Miller
Moore
Phillips of Bibb
Rutland
Saffold
Smith of Fulton Smith of Lamar Twitty
Williams of Hall
SubCommittees of Motor Vehicles Committee
TRAFFIC SAFETY CONTROL COMMITTEE
Jessup Chairman Budd
Carr ViceChairman Smith of Fulton
Green Secretary
TITLE LICENSE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Moorman Chairman Moore Secretary
Williams of Hall Vice Horton
Chairman Smith of Lamar
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MOTOR CARRIERS COMMITTEE
Rutland Chairman Jones of Wayne Secretary
Johnson of Jenkins Vice Matthews of Clarke
Chairman T witty
NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
Musgrove Chairman Caldwell ViceChairman Denmark Secretary Arnsdorff Bagby Barnett Bradley Boggs Bynum Chance Cocke Dilworth Dorsey Fitzgerald Hill of Meriwether Ingle
Johnson of Jenkins Joiner
Jones of Wayne Kelly
Killian
Kimmons
King
Larkins
McCown
Moore
Parker of Appling Parker of Ware Phillips of Walton Raulerson
Rodgers of Charlton
Shuman
Summers
Taylor of Dawson Todd
Walker of Telfair Watson
Wells of Oconee White
Williams of Hall
SubCommittees of Natural Resources Committee
GAME FISH COMMITTEE
Killian Chairman Jones of Wayne
White ViceChairman Phillips of Walton
Cocke Secretary Shuman
Johnson of Jenkins
GAS OIL COMMITTEE
Parker of Appling Chairman Parker of Ware
Dorsey ViceChairman Summers
Walker of Telfair Secretary Williams of Hall
Hill of Meriwether
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GEOLOGY MINES MINERALS COMMITTEE
Boggs Chairman Bagby
Ingle ViceChairman Bradley
Joiner Secretary Bynum
Chance
WATER SUPPLY RIPARIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
King Chairman Barnett
Moore ViceChairman Phillips of Walton
Arnsdorff Secretary Rodgers of Charlton
FORESTRY SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
Kimmons Chairman Kelly
Wells of Oconee Vice Larkins
Chairman McCown
Fitzgerald Secretary Todd
RULES COMMITTEE
Mr Speaker Chairman Twitty ViceChairman Cox Secretary Allen Bostick Brennan Gross
Hall of Floyd Hodges
Johnson of Butts Johnson of Jenkins King
Lanier
Lokey
McGibony
Mull
Musgrove
Orr
Phillips of Columbia
Rutland
Tamplin
Tucker
Underwood
SubCommittees of Rules Committee
RULE CHANGES COMMITTEE
Lanier Chairman Musgrove ViceChairman Hall of Floyd Secretary
Allen
Tamplin
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PRIVILEGE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
Orr Chairman Gross
Underwood ViceChairman Lokey
Johnson of Jenkins Secretary
SPECIAL JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
McKenna Chairman Ellis
Murphy ViceChairman Fleming
Willingham Secretary Freeman
Bolton Payton
Bostick Steis
Carswell of Wilkinson Undercofler
SubCommittees of Special Judiciary Committee
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS COMMITTEE
Freeman Chairman Carswell of Wilkinson
Fleming ViceChairman Payton
Bostick Secretary
CODE REVISION COMMITTEE
Bolton Chairman Steis
Ellis ViceChairman Undercofler Secretary
STATE INSTITUTIONS PROPERTY COMMITTEE
Gross Chairman Winkle ViceChairman Souter Secretary Bagby Barrett
Blalock of Coweta
Brooks of Oglethorpe
Campbell
Carr
Chandler
Coker
Echols
Flynt
Goble
Hall of Lee
Hill of Tattnall
Hodges
Hood
Hudson
Irvin
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Jordan of Banks Paris
Kidd Pelham
Love Phillips of Columbia
Lowrey Rowland
Magoon Singer
Matthews of Clarke Stevens
Miller Story
Moate Wells of Peach
Odom of Dougherty Palmer Young
SubCommittees of State Institutions Property Committee
PENAL INSTITUTIONS COMMITTEE
Blalock of Coweta Chairman Goble
Hill of Tattnall Palmer
V iceChairman Stevens
Hodges Secretary Young
ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS COMMITTEE
Kidd Chairman Rowland Secretary
Miller ViceChairman Echols
Hood
STATE INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES COMMITTEE
Love Chairman Carr
Hudson ViceChairman Coker
Story Secretary Lowrey
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE
Brooks of Oglethorpe Moate
Chairman Phillips of Columbia
Singer ViceChairman Souter
Matthews of Clarke Secretary
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STATE PORTS COMMITTEE
Paris Chairman Magoon
Odom of Dougherty Pelham
ViceChairman
Irvin of Habersham Secretary
STATE OF REPUBLIC COMMITTEE
McCracken Chairman Barber ViceChairman Bozeman Secretary Ballard Birdsong
Blalock of Clayton
Blalock of Coweta
Bolton
Busbee
Chandler
Cheek
Coalson
Conner
Duncan
Ellis
Fleming
Floyd
Hollis
Lee of Clayton
Mann
Moorman
Odom of Camden
Otwell
Palmer
Parker of Screven
Ray
Scoggin
Smith of Grady
Summers
Tabb
Walker of Telfair Williams of Hall Winkle
TEMPERANCE committee
Huddleston Chairman Phillips of Walton ViceChairman Coker Secretary Baughman Denmark Dicus Fordham
Hurst
Jessup
Johnson of Butts King
Matthews of Colquitt Raulerson
Rodgers of Charlton
SubCommittees of Temperance Committee
MALT BEVERAGES COMMITTEE
Coker Chairman Denmark
Baughman ViceChairman Hurst
Raulerson Secretary
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LIQUOR CONTROL COMMITTEE
Dicus Chairman King
Jessup ViceChairman Phillips of Walton
Johnson of Butts Secretary
DOMESTIC FOREIGN WINES COMMITTEE
Denmark Chairman Fordham
Rodgers of Charlton King
ViceChairman Matthews of Colquitt
Secretary
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA COMMITTEE
Matthews of Clarke Chairman Barber ViceChairman Ross Secretary Boggs Bozeman Branch Cheatham Cox Craven Deen Dorsey Edwards Floyd Fuqua
Jordan of Banks
Lokey
Love
Mackay
Magoon
Massee
Melton
Milhollin
Moorman
Odom of Dougherty
Reed
Sheffield
Smith of Grady
Smith of Fulton
Tucker
Walker of Lowndes Wells of Oconee Wilkes Willingham
WAYS MEANS COMMITTEE
Blalock of Clayton Chairman Ray ViceChairman Parker of Appling Secretary Andrews Black Dicus
Flynt
Fowler of Treutlen
Freeman
Gowen
Green
Hale
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Horton Phillips of Walton
Jones of Worth Jordan of Calhoun Larkins McGee Miller Moate Odom of Camden Otwell Parker of Ware Pickett Rogers of Heard Rutland Smith of Lamar Tabb Undercofler Winkle Young
SubCommittees of Ways Means Committee
GENERAL MATTERS COMMITTEE
Rutland Chairman Smith of Lamar Vice Chairman Andrews Secretary Otwell Rogers of Heard
INCOME ESTATE TAXES COMMITTEE
Ray Chairman Green ViceChairman Horton Secretary Black Jordan of Calhoun
REAL INTANGIBLE TAX COMMITTEE
Hale Chairman Odom of Camden V ice Chairman Young Secretary Freeman Parker of Ware
SALES USE TAX COMMITTEE
Fowler of Treutlen Chairman Phillips of Walton Secretary Miller ViceChairman Flynt
Tabb
TAX REVISION COMMITTEE
Gowen Chairman Winkle ViceChairman Undercofler Secretary
Jones of Worth Larkins
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WELFARE COMMITTEE
Freeman Chairman Bolton ViceChairman Payton Secretary Barrett Braswell Brooks of Fulton Chandler Coalson Fuqua Goble Griffin Hall of Lee
Hedden
Joiner
Kirkland
Lancaster
NeSmith
Reed
Sheffield
Stevens
Taylor of Dawson
Thornton
Watson
White
SubCommittees of Welfare Committee
JUVENILE MATTERS COMMITTEE
Brooks of Fulton Chairman Barrett
Griffin ViceChairman NeSmith
Goble Secretary
BENEFITS AID COMMITTEE
Coalson Chairman Hall of Lee
Watson ViceChairman Joiner
Braswell Secretary
ELEEMOSYNARY MATTERS COMMITTEE
Reed Chairman Taylor of Dawson ViceChairman
Chandler Secretary Fuqua Hedden
RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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THE SPEAKER
Rule 1 The Speaker shall in his discretion suspend irrelevant debate and command silence whenever he may deem it needful
Rule 2 In all cases of election by the House the Speaker shall vote In other cases he shall not vote unless the House be equally divided or unless his vote if given to the minority will make the division equal and in case of such equal division the question shall be lost But in all cases where a fixed constitutional vote is required to pass the bill or measure under consideration and said bill or measure shall lack only one vote to pass the same the Speaker shall vote and his vote so cast shall be counted the same as that of any other member
Rule 3 When two or more members shall rise at the same time the Speaker shall name the person entitled to proceed
Rule 4 All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise ordered by the House The Speaker may create in his discretion within any standing committee a subcommittee or subcommittees and constitute the membership thereof Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the authority of the standing committees or the officers thereof
Rule 5 The method of stating a question or any motion by the Speaker after the same has been read to the House by the Clerk shall be as follows All in favor of the motion will say Aye Those opposed will say No And when a decision may seem doubtful to the Speaker or a division of the House is called for by any one member of the House the Speaker shall call upon the members in favor of the motion to rise and after a count is had by the clerk he shall
Discretion of Speaker
When Speaker shall vote
Right of member to the floor to be decided by the Speaker
Appointment of Committees
Methods of stating a question by Speaker
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Speaker may name members to preside
Duty of Clerk when Speaker is absent
Appeals from ruling of the Speaker
When no debate on appeals
Appeals to be made at once
When members may address the House
call upon the members to reverse their positions and the Speaker shall announce the result
Rule 6 The Speaker may during a days sitting name any member to perform the duties of the Chair during any part of that sitting but no longer
Rule 7 Whenever from any cause the Speaker shall be absent the Speaker pro tempore shall preside and if both shall be absent the Clerk of the House shall call the House to Order and shall preside until a Speaker pro tempore shall be elected which said election shall be the first business of the House The Speaker pro tempore thus elected shall preside until the return of one of the first named officers when his functions shall cease
Rule 8 Should any member of the House be dissatisfied with the ruling of the Speaker on any point he shall rise and respectfully address the Speaker and say I appeal from the decision of the Chair The Speaker will then state to the House the point ruled on and his decision on it and shall then put the question of appeal to the House as follows All in favor of the decision of the Chair standing as the sense of this House will say Aye Those opposed will say No and the decision of the House in sustaining or overruling the Speaker shall be final
Rule 9 On all appeals on questions of order of a personal character there shall be no debate
Rule 10 All appeals from the decision of the Chair shall be made immediately and no appeal shall be in order after other business has intervened from the time of the alleged error of the Chair and before said appeal is sought to be made
Rule 11 Where debate is permissible on appeals from the decision of the Chair any mem
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ber after being recognized by the Speaker may address his remarks directly to the House
Rule 12 The Speaker shall have power to suspend the Messenger and Doorkeepers for misconduct or neglect of duty and when such suspension has been made he shall report the same to the House within twentyfour hours thereafter for such action as the House may see fit to take in the premises
Rule 13 The Speaker shall have power to cause the galleries and lobbies of the House cleared by the Messenger and Doorkeepers in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct therein and to cause any person or persons so offending to be arrested and brought before the bar of the House to be dealt with for contempt of the House
Rule 14 When less than a quorum vote on any subject under consideration by the House the Speaker may order the bar of the House to be closed and the roll of members called by the Clerk or the roll call system and if it is ascertained that a quorum is present either by answering to their names or by their presence in the House and if any member present then refuses to vote unless excused such refusal shall be deemed a contempt of the House
Rule 15 The Speaker may at any time order the roll called on any question and take the vote by yeas and nays where a division of the House discloses the fact that a quorum of the House has not voted
Rule 16 All questions as to the priority of business to be acted on shall be decided by the Speaker without debate
ON DECORUM AND DEBATE
Rule 17 When any member is about to speak in debate or deliver any matter to the House he shall rise and respectfully address himself to
Power of Speaker to suspend subordinate officers
When Speaker may order galleries and lobbies cleared
No quorum voting duty of Speaker
When Speaker may order vote taken by yeas and nays
Decisions on questions of priority
Conduct of members in debate
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Time
extended
how
Expulsion
Exception to words spoken Proviso
Mr Speaker He shall be confined to matter in debate shall not speak more than twice on any subject or more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken No member shall be recognized by the Speaker unless said member shall be at his designated seat
No member of the House shall occupy the floor longer than one 1 hour in debating any question unless otherwise ordered by the House and any motion to limit or extend the time of individual speeches shall be decided without debate No such motion shall prevail unless it shall receive the affirmative votes of twothirds of those voting Such motion may be made at any time that the movant thereof may legitimately obtain the floor
If any member in speaking or otherwise transgress the rules of the House the Speaker shall call him to order in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down unless permitted to explain The House shall if appealed to decide and if the decision of the House be not submitted to the delinquent for the first offense shall be reproved for the second fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars and continuing refractory may be expelled from the House by a twothirds vote of the members which said vote shall be taken by yeas and nays and recorded on the Journal of the House
Rule 18 If any member be called to order for words spoken the words excepted to shall be taken down in writing by the Clerk and read then admitted denied or explained by the member who spoke and thereupon the question of order shall be decided and such other proceedings had as the House may deem proper in regard thereto Provided that if at any time the House is acting under the previous question such question of order and other proceedings referred to shall not be taken up for decision until after the previous question and the main questions have been

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exhausted or until such further time as may then be ordered by the House But no member shall be held to answer or be subject to the censure of the House for words spoken in debate if any other member has spoken or other business has intervened after the words were spoken and before the exception to them was taken
Rule 19 The members of the House shall for Silence bear from private conversation and preserve silence until a speaking member shall have taken his seat
Rule 20 The members shall avoid naming Mode of each other when they may have occasion to take designating notice of their observations but may designate members them by the place in which they may be or the county they represent
Rule 21 No member shall address the House except as heretofore stated in case of appeals House hoW or interrogate a member who is speaking except QUesti0ns through the Speaker and should the member and interspeaking decline to be interrupted the Speaker ruptions shall cause the member desiring to interrogate to be silent
Rule 22 No member shall vote upon any question in the result of which he is immediately ghall not and particularly interested In every case where vote when the seat of a member is being contested the sit interested ting member and the contestant shall both retire in result from the House before the vote is taken
Each member shall vote from his own seat when the ayes and nays are taken by the electric roll call and during such a vote no person shall be allowed upon the floor of the House except the members and attaches thereof
No member or person shall vote for or attempt to vote for another member on any question or proposition and the violation of this rule shall be deemed to be disorderly behavior and subject to punishment as provided by the Constitution and Rules of the House
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Protests
Smoking
and conversation prohibited
Duty while member is speaking and at adjournment
Matters transpiring in Senate Committees and private conversation not to be referred to
Laudatory and disparaging remarks when forbidden
Applause and hisses forbidden
No debate during yeas and nays
Only one motion can be made at a time
Rule 23 Any member may enter a protest in writing against the action of the House said protest shall clearly and succinctly set forth the grounds of such protest and shall not be argumentative nor arraign nor impugn the motive of the House nor any member thereof and such protest shall be entered by the Clerk upon the Journal of the House
Rule 24 No member shall converse with any one over the bar of the House
Rule 25 No member shall be permitted to enter upon the floor of the House or remain thereon in an intoxicated condition and the Messenger and the Doorkeepers of the House are specially charged with the rigid enforcement of this rule
Rule 26 No member shall pass between the Chair and a member while he is speaking nor shall any member at the time of adjournment leave his seat until the Speaker retires
Rule 27 No member shall in debate refer to any private conversation had with another member or to any matters which have transpired in any committee or in the Senate
Rule 28 In nominating candidates for any office no laudatory remarks shall be allowed nor shall any other candidate be disparaged
Rule 29 Applause or hisses in the Representative chamber or in the galleries or lobby during any speech or legislative proceedings shall be promptly suppressed
Rule 30 During the calling or reading of yeas and nays on any question no debate shall be had
Rule 31 No member can make more than one motion at a time and while the motion is
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being put to the House he must resume his seat and he is not further entitled to the floor unless again recognized by the Speaker
Rule 32 No member shall be permitted to explain his vote during a roll call but may duce his explanation to writing m not more than 200 words and when filed with the Clerk on the same day shall be spread upon the Journal
Rule 33 When the reading of any paper is called for and the same is objected to by any member it shall be determined by a vote of the House and this motion shall be decided without debate
Rule 34 Every member within the hall when a question is put shall vote unless he is immedately and particularly interested therein or the House shall excuse him A motion to excuse a member from voting must be made before the House divides or before the call of the yeas and nays is commenced and it shall be decided without debate except that the member making the motion may briefly state the reason why m his opinion it ought to prevail
Rule 35 No member shall be allowed to address himself to any question and then make any motion the effect of which is to cut off debate without relinquishing the floor
DIVISION OF A QUESTION
Rule 36 Any member may call for a division Caiijor a of the question on a subject m which the sense thereof will admit of it
Rule 37 The member calling for a division Division must state into how many and definitely what now md parts he would have the question divided Each part of the divided proposition must be so distinct that if taken away the remainder can stand by itself and be consistent and entire
Explanation
Reading of papers
When members shall vote
Motion to excuse when made Excuses from voting
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Qualifying paragraph exception and provision
Strike out and insert not divisible
Bills and resolutions called in order Proviso
Rule 38 A qualifying paragraph an exceDtion or a proviso if taken from that to which
propositfonWU Cntain a distinct or entire
is nlLLmnsMke out and insert
AW bills and resolutions shall be oiLtiln t1heumencal order in which they stand oft bbpjndaRi and before reading any bill or 1 second or third time the Clerk shah distinctly state its number and the name of the member by whom introduced provided that House and Senate bills and resolutions adversely reported shall not be taken up for a second read
orgvCiPiby request of tbe authors of such bill or resolution or some member of the House which request must be made not later than the adjournment of the next legislative day followb unfavorable committee report provided that the General Tax Bill and the General Ap
mmm take precedence on third
reading over all other matters even Special Orders until the said Bills shall have been finally disposed of In order that the proper numerica order may be accurately and fairly determin
dutvSifetrrii1vSfandireSlutionssha11 be the 3JB5f h0CIerk to pja5e on each bill and resolution as same is read the first time a number following the numercial order in which said bills and resolutions are read the first time adopting one series of numbers and the same series of numbers for both bills and resolutions and not a tfced16 SeneS f number as heretofore prac
41 Every motin to suspend the rules 31 tbe purpose of taking up bills or resolutions out of their regular order and every motion to make special orders shall be submitted in writing and reported upon by the Committee on Rules before being submitted to the House
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Rule 42 The Speaker shall not recognize any member at any time for the purpose of asking COnsent unanimous consent for the introduction of new matter nor to read any bill or resolution the second time or any local bill or resolution a third time or to put any local bill or resolution upon its passage or to recommit a bill or resolution or to withdraw from one committee and recommit to another a bill or resolution except during the first thirty minutes after the confirmation of the Journal or after the reading of the Journal has been dispensed with The Speaker shall not recognize any member at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to put any general bill or resolution upon its passage or to read such bill or resolution second time and recommit The Speaker shall entertain but one unanimous consent at any time
The Speaker shall not recognize any member at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to make a special order or to change the order of business except that by unanimous consent an order of business may be fixed for the period of Unanimous Consents
The Speaker shall not recognize any member at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to cast his vote on any motion resolution amendment bill or other question nor shall any member be permitted to cast his vote on any motion resolution amendment bill or other question until the question is put to the House by the Speaker on viva voce vote or division of the House or until after the roll call has begun
The Speaker shall entertain but one unanimous consent at any one time
Rule 43 The Rules of this House known as Suspension Constitutional rules shall in no case be suspended all other rules shall in no case be suspended
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No debate
Bills etc when introduced
nor changed nor the order of business be changed except by a vote of twothirds of the members voting Provided however that in order to so change or suspend the rules or change the order of business said twothirds so voting in favor of said change or suspension shall constitute a majority of the members of the whole House
Rule 44 No suspension or changes or addition to these rules shall be made unless such proposed change or addition or suspension of these rules be first referred to the Committee on Rules and reported back to the House Provided however that immediately after the confirmation of the Journal on the aay following the introduction in the House of the proposed change or addition to these rules the Committee on Rules shall report the same back to the House A failure to so report such proposed change or addition to these rules for two days shall automatically bring said proposed change or addition before the House for consideration
Rule 45 Any motion to suspend rules or change the rules or change the order of business shall be decided without debate Provided however that whenever a report from the Committee on Rules is submitted to the House the questions arising on said report shall be debatable until the report of the Committee is agreed to or disagreed to or the main question is ordered There shall be no debate however on the report of the Committee on Rules during the last twentyone days of the session
Rule 46 No bill and no resolution requiring the concurring vote of the Senate for passage shall be introduced unless the same shall have been filed in the office of the Clerk before 1000 A M of the previous day except that a bill or such resolution may be introduced on the second day of any regular adjourned or special session
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if it shall have been filed in the office of the Clerk before 1200 noon of the first day of such session
Whenever any Bill or Resolution having the force and effect of law is filed in accordance with Rule 46 and read the first time on the succeeding day said Bill or Resolution as a matter of course shall automatically be passed to a 2nd reading on the legislative day following the first readingany other provisions of these rules to the contrary notwithstanding
Rule 47 No debate shall be admitted upon any Bill at the first reading Upon the introduction of any Bill or Resolution or other matter reauiring reference to a Committee the Speaker shall as a matter of course and without debate commit the same to the proper committee unless otherwise ordered by the House
No bill or resolution shall be engrossed except upon the affirmative vote of twothirds of the members present No member shall be recognized at any time for the purpose of asking unanimous consent to engross a bill or resolution When a motion to engross is which mo
tion may be made upon reading the bill the first time and at no other time no debate shall be permitted except that the movant may speak to his motion not longer than five minutes and any one other member of the House may speak in opposition thereto for five minutes In case of engrossment of any bill or other matter the entry thereof shall be made by the Clerk and the Bill or other matter shall not be amendable thereafter unless subsequently committed In cases where the report of a committee is favorable to the passage of a bill the same shall be rea second time and passed to a third reading without question Where the report of a committee is adverse to the passage of a bill on the second reading thereof the question shall be on agree
No debate on first reading
Effect of favorable report of committee
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Bills when withdrawn
mg to the report of the committee If the report of the committee is agreed to the bill shall be lost If the report of the committee is disagreed to the bill shall be passed to a third reading unless recommitted Any bill may be withdrawn at any stage thereof by consent of the House
When motion is made to refer a bill or resolution to a committee other than the one to which it is referred by the Speaker even though instructions be added no debate shall be permitted except that movant may speak to his motion not longer than five minutes and any one other member of the House may speak in opposition thereto for five minutes No debate shall be permitted unless instructions are added
All resolutions providing for appointment of committees of inquiry or investigation and any and all other resolutions not privileged except motions for information from the Executive Department and any other Department of the State Government shall be referred by the Speaker to the appropriate committee unless by order of the House referred to some other committee
Adverse
report of
committee
Transmission
to Senate
majority
vote
Bills when printed
Rule 48 No bill or resolution shall be transmitted to the Senate on the day of the passage thereof unless twothirds of the members present shall so order
Rule 49 The Clerk shall as soon as possible after any bill or resolution of General application is filed in his office cause the same to be printed and a copy thereof distributed to each member forthwith Whenever any such bill or resolution of general application shall be reported back by the committee to which it was referred with the recommendation that it do pass as amended the Clerk shall cause the amendments recommended to be printed and copies thereof to be distributed
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to each member The House may at any time by a vote of a majority of a quorum suspend action upon any pending bill or resolution of general application until the substitutes and amendments offered thereto have been printed
Rule 50 All proceedings touching the appropriating of money shall be considered in the Committee of the Whole House
Rule 51 All bills and resolutions shall be in writing and shall have the name of the member introducing the same as well as the county he represents indorsed on the back of the same and in the case of bills the caption of the bill shall also be indorsed on the same
Rule 52 Where a bill or resolution has been referred and reported by more than one committee or has been reported on and recommitted to the same committee the last committee report shall be acted on by the House and in all cases the report of the Committee of the Whole House shall be first acted on by the House
Rule 53 The Committee on Rules during the last twentyone days of each session shall arrange a calendar for each days business and such calendar shall be a standing and continuing Special Order during said period and no matter shall be taken up or acted on otherwise than in the order fixed by such calendar except by a vote of a majority of all of the members elected
Committee of the Whole House See Rule 106 et al
Bills and Resolutions to be in writing How indorsed
Reports of committees order of action
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Order of precedence
to the Housq During the period of operation under this rule the calendar or order of business fixed by committee on rules shall be read by the clerk immediately after Confirmation of the Journal of each morning session and immediately after Call of the Roll of each afternoon session and any motion to amend such report either by striking inserting or changing the order shall be made within the first thirty minutes after the reading of such report After the reading of such report and announcement by the Speaker that it is in order for such motions to be made and no such motions being made the House shall proceed to business under the calendar so fixed after which no such motion shall be made during that session No such motion to amend the report of the Committee on Rules shall be debatable during the period of operation under this Rule
PRECEDENCE OP MOTIONS
Rule 54 When any subject is before the House for consideration or under debate no motion shall be received except the following towit
1st Motion to adjourn
2nd A motion to lay on table
3rd A motion for the previous question
4th A motion to adjourn to a time definite
5th A motion to postpone indefinitely
6th A motion to postpone to a day certain
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7th A motion to commit
8th A motion to amend
9 th A motion to print
Which said motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand as above arranged
MOTION TO ADJOURN
Rule 55 A motion to adjourn is in no instance debatable nor shall said motion be made a second time until further progress has been made in the business before the House A motion to adjourn in its simple form shall not be amended
Rule 56 A motion to adjourn to a particular day or for a particular time if made when the House is not actually engaged in other business is debatable
Rule 57 The motion to adjourn can be made at any time when the member moving it can legitimately obtain the floor
Rule 58 A motion to adjourn may be made after the motion for the previous question has been sustained but when the House has voted that the main question shall be now put no motion to adjourn is in order nor shall any motion to adjourn be in order after the Clerk has called the first name of the yeas and nays and a vote of one member has been given or the Speaker has unlocked the roll call system for voting or after a division of the House has been
Not debatable when may be renewed When made
When made debatable
When not in order
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Effect of adjournment Rule 59 When a motion to adjourn in its simple form prevails it adjourns the House to the next sitting day or time in course
Hour of adjournment What business postponed Rule 60 Whenever the hour of adjournment as fixed by a prior resolution shall arrive while the vote of the House is being taken by yeas and nays the session shall continue until the final vote is taken and announced and if said fixed hour of adjournment shall arrive while the House is acting on the main question after the main question has been ordered and before the vote on the main question is being taken either by a division or by the yeas and nays as aforesaid the House shall stand adjourned by virtue of said prior resolution
Amendment or substitute cannot be laid on table MOTIONS TO LAY ON TABLE Rule 61 No motion to lay an amendment or substitute on the table shall be in order
How Matters may be taken from table Rule 62 A majority of a quorum voting may take from the table at any time when the House is not engaged on any other measure any bill resolution or other paper which has been ordered to lie on the table and when so taken up the
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same is thereby restored to its appropriate place on the calendar
Rule 63 If the motion to lay on the table prevails it removes from the consideration of the House the measure together with all the motions attached to it at the time it is so disposed of
Rule 64 When the proposition is again taken from the table it stands before the House in the exact form with all the motions pertaining to it just as it did at the time the motion to lay on the table prevailed
Rule 65 After a yea and nay vote is called on any bill or resolutionthe House not acting at the time under the previous questionand one vote has been recorded or the Speaker has unlocked the roll call system for voting no motion to table shall be in order until the rollcall shall have been completed When any bill or resolution is tabled after the completion of the rollcall and then taken from the table nothing can be done except to announce the result of said vote as shown by said rollcall at the time said bill or resolution was tabled
Rule 66 A motion to lay on the table or to take from the table can be renewed from time to time when new business has intervened between the votes
Rule 67 Neither the motion to lay on the
Effect of vote to table
Effect of vote to take from table
No motion to table in order until rollcall is completed
When
renewed
Not debatable or amendable
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Rule 68 Nothing can be legitimately laid on the table excepting what can be taken up again
Rule 69 A motion to lay on the table may be made after the motion for the previous question has been sustained but when the House has voted on the main question shall be now put no motion to lay on the table is in order
THE MOTION FOR THE PREVIOUS QUESTION
Rule 70 The motion for the previous question shall be decided without debate and shall take precedence of all other motions except a motion to adjourn or to lay on the table but neither of said motions shall be made but once until after the previous question has been exhausted and when it is moved the question shall be Shall the motion for the previous question be sustained If this be decided by a majority of a quorum in the affirmative and the next question towit Shall the main question be now put is decided in the affirmative by a majority of a quorum all other motions except one to reconsider the action in ordering the main question will be out of order and the House cannot adjourn until the previous question is exhausted or the regular hour of adjournment arrives But no motion to reconsider the action of the House in ordering the main question shall be in order after the Clerk has called the first name on call of the ayes and nays and the vote of any member has been given or the Speaker has unlocked the roll call system for voting or after a division of the House has been had on the vote and the vote is in process of being counted and announced in such cases the roll call shall be completed the vote counted and the result finally announced
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Rule 71 When the previous question has been ordered the House shall then proceed to act on the main question without debate except that before the main question is put twenty minutes shall be allowed to the committee whose report of the bill or other measure is under consideration to close the debate Where the report of the committee is adverse to the passage of the bill or other measure the introducer of the bill shall be allowed twenty minutes before time allowed to the committee for closing the debate The Chairman of the committee or the introducer of the bill or other measure may yield the floor to such members as he ma3T indicate for the time or any part of it allowed under this rule This rule shall not be construed to allow the twenty minutes above referred to to be used but once on any bill or measure and then on the final passage of the bill or measure
Rule 72 After the main question is ordered any member may call for a division of the House in taking the vote or may call for the yeas and nays if the call for the yeas and nays is sustained by onefifth of the members voting the vote shall be taken by the yeas and nays and so entered on the Journal
Rule 73 The effect of the order that the main question be now put is to bring the House to a vote on pending questions in the order in which they stood before it was moved
Rule 74 In all cases where a minority report has been submitted on any question if the previous question is ordered there shall be twenty minutes allowed to the member whose name is first signed to Said minority report or to such member or members as he may indicate for the
Twenty
minutes
debate
allowed
Vote how taken
Effect of main ques tion being ordered
Contested
Election
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How Called and Ordered Rule 75 The previous question may be called and ordered upon a single motion or an amendment or it may be made to embrace all authorized motions or amendments and include the entire bill to its passage or rejection
Call of the House when in order Rule 76 A call of the House shall not be in order after the previous question is ordered unless it shall appear upon an actual count by the Speaker that a quorum is not present
Question of order Rule 77 All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question and pending such motion shall be decided whether on appeal or otherwise without debate
Effect MOTIONS TO INDEFINITELY POSTPONE Rule 78 When a bill resolution or other measure is under consideration on the final reading thereof motion to indefinitely postpone if decided in the affirmative by a majority of a quorum thereby disposes of said bill resolution or other measure for the session
Not amendable Rule 79 The motion to indefinitely postpone lays open the whole question for debate but it cannot be amended
When cannot be applied Rule 80 While the motion to indefinitely postpone takes precedence over a motion to postpone to a day certain or to commit or amend yet
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this motion cannot be applied to said motions nor can it be applied to incidental questions such as questions of order reading of papers withdrawal of a motion and suspension of a rule
Rule 81 No motion to indefinitely postpone shall be renewed on any bill resolution or other measure after the same has been voted down
MOTION TO POSTPONE TO A DAY CERTAIN
Rule 82 The motion to postpone a bill resolution or other measure to a day certain when decided in the affirmative by a majority of a quorum removes the subject from before the House until the time designated and makes it a privileged question for that day so selected
Rule 83 If the motion to postpone a bill a resolution or other measure is decided in the negative it leaves the question before the House as it was before the motion was made and it cannot be moved a second time on same day or at the same stage of the proceeding
Rule 84 This motion to postpone to a day certain may be amended by substituting one day for another In this case the time would be treated as a blank and the Speaker should treat these propositions as he would those to fill blanks
Rule 85 If a day designated is known to be beyond the session the Speaker shall treat the motion as though it had been a motion to indefinitely postpone the subject
Rule 86 On a motion to postpone to a day certain it is not in order to debate the merits of
Not renewed
Effect of
negative
vote
May be amended
To a day beyond the session
Debate when and how allowed
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Motion how applied Rule 87 This motion cannot be applied to subordinate or incidental questions but must be applied to the whole bill resolution or other measure before the House and when it prevails it carries forward the whole proposition and its appendages to the day named
Motion to commit MOTIONS TO COMMIT Rule 88 Motions to commit may be made to refer a bill resolution or other measure to a standing or special committee or committee of the whole House
Precedence of Rule 89 A motion to commit to a standing committee takes precedence over a motion to commit to a special committee and shall be first voted on but where a motion is made that a bill resolution or other measure be committed to the committee of the whole House this motion shall be put before either of the above named motions
When debatable Rule 90 On a motion simply to commit no debate shall be allowed but where instructions are added the merits of the question can be debated
How amended Rule 91 A motion to commit may be amended by adding instructions or by substituting another committee for the one named by the member making the motion
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Rule 92 Any proposition that has been referred to any committee either standing or special may on motion be recommitted to the same or any other committee by a majority of a quorum
MOTIONS TO AMEND
Rule 93 There are three ways in which a proposition may be amended towit
1st By inserting or adding words
2nd By striking out words
3rd By striking out and inserting words
An amendment is itself subject to be amended in all three of the ways above mentioned but it is not admissible to amend an amendment to an amendment
Rule 94 A substitute is simply an amendment it is in effect a motion to strike out all after the enacting clause of a bill or the word Resolved in a resolution and insert that offered as a substitute
Rule 95 When a bill or resolution is before the House for consideration and amendments are pending thereto and a substitute shall be offered for said bill or resolution and an amendment shall be offered to said substitute it shall be in order for the House to first perfect the original bill or resolution and then perfect the substitute The question shall then be on agreeing to the substitute as amended if it be amended and if decided in the affirmative the question shall be Shall this bill pass or resolution be adopted as the case may be by substitute
Rule 96 An amendment cannot be offered after the report of the committee to which was
Motion to recommit
Amendments how made
Substitute
Bill first perfected then the substitute
When too late to amend
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Must be in writing referred the bill or resolution under consideration has been agreed to by the House unless said action of the House in so agreeing to said report of said committee shall first be reconsidered Rule 97 All motions to amend any matter before the House must be in writing and must plainly and distinctly set forth the amendment desired and the part of the bill or resolution where said amendment shall be inserted or added
Priority Rule 98 On all questions whether in committee or in the House the last amendment the most distant day and the largest sum shall be first put
Blanks Rule 99 Where blanks occur in any proposition they must be filled first before any motion is made to amend
Caption when amended Rule 100 The caption or preamble of a bill or resolution shall not be considered or amended until the measure has been perfected
Amending by sections Rule 101 When a proposition consisting of several sections or resolutions is on a final reading and the House shall agree to a motion to consider the same by sections or paragraphs the Clerk in reading the same shall pause at the end of each section or resolution and the amendments thereto shall be offered as the several sections or resolutions are read but the amendments offered by the committee to whom said bill or resolution was referred shall be read by the Clerk without any motion being made in the House and when a section or resolution shall have been considered it is not in order to recur and amend it
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Rule 102 No motion on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment
Rule 103 When a motion is made to amend by striking out and inserting the Clerk shall read the paragraph as it is then the words to be stricken out and finally the whole paragraph as it would be if amended
Rule 104 When a motion is made to amend by striking out a part of a bill or resolution any amendment offered to perfect the part proposed to be stricken shall be put first before the question is put for striking it out
Rule 105 When any bill or resolution which originated in the House has been amended in the Senate and is before the House for action on the Senate amendment an amendment may be offered in the House to the Senate amendment but the House amendment to the Senate amendment cannot be further amended it must be agreed to or voted down
Rule 106 A motion to amend an amendment made by the Senate to the House bill or resolution takes precedence over a motion to agree to disagree to said amendment
Rule 107 The questions which arise before the House respecting amendments by the Senate to a House bill or resolution are
1st A motion to agree to the Senate amendment
2nd A motion to disagree to the Senate amendment
Amendments by striking out and inserting
Priority of amendment to perfect
Amending
Senate
Amendments
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Priority
Priority of questions on Senate amendments
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3rd A motion to recede from its disagreement or amendment
4th A motion to insist on its disagreement or amendment
5th A motion to adhere to its disagreement or amendment
They take precedence in the above order
The Speaker is authorized on his own motion or upon point or order being made when in his opinion a Senate Amendment to a House Bill is not germane or if adopted would render the bill unconstitutional to rule out such amendment the effect of which ruling of the Speaker if not appealed from or if appealed from and the appeal not sustained shall be the same as a vote of the House to disagree and as such the Clerk shall report it to the Senate Such point of order shall take precedence over a motion to agree
Provided that when any question of disagreement with the Senate arises the following motions shall be in order at any time the movant can legally obtain the floor and debate thereon limited as in the case of reconsideration 1st a motion to insist upon the House position 2nd a motion to recede from the House position which motions shall be put in order listed subject to disposition by the House of any amendments or substitutes affecting the matter in disagreement
Majority necessary to adopt Senate Amendment or Conference Committee Report
Rule 107A In order to adopt a Senate Amendment to a House bill or resolution and in order to adopt a report of a conference committee the said amendment or conference committee report must receive a majority vote of the
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entire membership elected to the House of Representatives Any rule contravening the letter or spirit of this Rule is hereby repealed
RECONSIDERATION
Rule 108 When the Journal of the preceding day shall be read it shall be in the power of any member whether said member previously voted in the affirmative or negative on the matter sought to be reconsidered to move for a reconsideration of any matter therein contained except such matter as has been previously reconsidered provided such member shall notify the House of his intention to move such reconsideration at any time before the Journal is confirmed Provided further that the action of the House on Senate amendments shall be in order for reconsideration immediately and not otherwise
Rule 109 The notice of a motion to reconsider shall not be withdrawn after the time has elapsed within which it might originally have been made
Rule 110 No matter shall be reconsidered more than once
Rule 111 Motions for reconsideration shall be in order immediately after the order of unanimous consent on the day succeeding the action sought to be reconsidered except that any matter which could not be reconsidered on the succeeding day shall be in order for reconsideration on the day of said action
Rule 112 The action of the House upon an amendment may be reconsidered at any time be
Motion to reconsider
Shall not be
withdrawn
when
When there may be one reconsideration
When In order
Amendments
when
reconsidered
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Place of calendar Rule 113 All bills reconsidered shall take their place at the foot of the calendar of bills then in order for a third reading
When ordered by Speaker COMMITTEE ON THE WHOLE HOUSE Rule 114 The Speaker may resolve the House into a Committee of the Whole without a motion being made therefor whenever a bill or resolution shall be in order for consideration on its
See Buie 48 third reading before the House which is required by the rules of this House to be considered in the Committee of the Whole
When ordered by the House Rule 115 The House may resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House by a majority of a quorum voting on motion of a member made for that purpose provided however that notice of intention to make such motion shall be given during the session of the preceding day individual speeches on such motion being limited to three minutes If such notice shall not have been given the motion shall prevail if it shall receive the affirmative votes of twothirds of those voting and which twothird shall also constitute a majority of all of the members elected to the House and provided further whenever the House either by its own vote or by unanimous consent shall commit any bill or resolution to Committee of the Whole House and subsequently a motion shall be made to resolve the House into Committee of the Whole to consider such bill or resolution and such motion shall be lost the said motion shall not be again renewed but it shall be the duty of the Speaker to require the
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Clerk to read the bill or resolution again on the following days session under the order of Introduction of New Matter or Reading of Bills the First Time and to refer such bill or resolution to the appropriate committee unless otherwise ordered by the House provided however that for the consideration of the General Tax Bill and General Appropriation Bill the House may resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House by a majority of a quorum voting on motion of a member made for that purpose and no previous notice shall be necessary
Rule 116 In forming a Committee of the Whole House the Speaker shall leave the chair and a Chairman to preside in committee shall be appointed by the Speaker
Rule 117 In the Committee of the Whole bills shall be first read throughout by the Clerk and then again be read or debated by clauses or sections leaving the preamble to be last considered unless otherwise ordered
Rule 118 The Rules of the House shall be observed by the Committee of the Whole so far as they may be applicable except that it can not refer a matter to any other committee it can not adjourn the previous question can not be enforced a motion to lay on the table or indefinitely postpone shall not be in order a member may speak as often as he may obtain the floor no call of the House shall be in order nor shall any vote be taken by yeas and nays
Rule 119 If at any time in the Committee of the Whole it shall be desired to close the debate or to limit the time to be allowed members for speaking the committee may rise and report its
How formed
Proceedings
Rule in committee
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Time of bow extended Rule 120 In the event that a Committee of the Whole House at any sitting shall for want of time fail to complete any matter under consideration it may on motion at any time in the committee made rise report progress and have leave to sit again generally or at a day certain
Motion to rise etc Rule 121 A motion that the committee rise and report progress and ask leave to sit again can be made at any time when the mover thereof can legitimately obtain the floor and shall take precedence over all other motions and shall be decided without debate and when it prevails the committee shall immediately rise and when the regular hour for adjournment of the House arrives the committee shall automatically rise and the Speaker shall assume the Chair
Reconsid eration Rule 122 A motion to reconsider shall be in order in Committee of the Whole
Duty of Chairman when no quorum is present Rule 123 The Committee of the Whole shall not proceed with the business before it whenever a vote on any question shall disclose the fact that no quorum of the House is present Whenever it is suggested that a quorum is not present the Chairman of the committee shall satisfy himself of the fact by actual count of the com
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mittee and report the same to the committee and I airman shall on his own motion ordsr that the committee immediately rise and he shall report the fact of the absence of a quorum to the House
Rule 124 The Speaker may in Committee of the Whole take part in the proceedings and he as well as all other members shall vote on all questions before the committee unless excused therefrom and no pairing of members shall be recognized or allowed in the Committee of the Whole
Rule 125 Amendments proposed by the Committee of the Whole may be amended or rejected by the House and matters stricken out by the committee may be restored by the House
Rule 126 A Committee of the Whole House can not punish disorderly conduct of its members but must report the same to the House for action thereon
Rule 127 The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole shall have power to have the galleries or lobbies cleared in case of any disorderly conduct therein
Rule 128 When the Committee of the Whole has disposed of the bill resolutions or other measures before it by motion and question it shall nse and the Chairman will be instructed to report the action of the Committee to the House At this point the Speaker will resume his seat and the Chairman will return to the floor and will state in substance as follows Mr Speaker the Committee of the Whole House
All members shall vote unless excused
Amendments
Disorderly
conduct
reported
Chairman may order galleries cleared
Proceedings of when business before it is finished
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Record have had under consideration naming what and have instructed me as their Chairman to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass or do pass as amended or do not pass as the case may be The Speaker will receive this report and repeat the same and the matter will then be before the House for action just as though reported by any other Committee Rule 129 The proceedings of the Committee of the Whole shall not be recorded in the Journal of the House except so far as reported to the House by the Chairman of said committee
Papers may be called for Rule 130 When in the Committee of the Whole any papers in the possession of the House may be called for by any member and read by the Clerk for the information of the committee unless the committee shall otherwise order
Reports shall contain result of committees action Rule 131 Amendments offered to an amendment in the Committee of the Whole shall not be reported to the House but the report shall contain only the result of the committees action on the bill resolution or measure under consideration before it
Morning rollcall dispensed with by twothirds vote ABSENTEES Rule 132 The rollcall at the opening of each session of the House and also the reading of the Journal shall not be dispensed with except by a vote of twothirds of the members present The motion to dispense with the roll call and to dispense with the reading of the Journal shall be decided without debate Roll call system may be used to call the roll the members using the aye switch to signify their presence
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Rule 133 Upon the call of all the members ordinary and extraordinary the names of the absentees shall be noted by the Clerk and shall appear upon the Journal And it shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep a separate list of the absentees from each days proceedings which list shall be entered upon the Journal and shall show which of said absentees are absent without leave and of those absent with leave which are absent for providential causes and which for business reasons which said separate list shall be read in the House with the Journal upon which the same is entered
COMPELLING ATTENDANCE
Rule 134 The power to compel the attendance of members in order to keep or secure a quorum shall be vested in the Speaker and to this end he may have the doors of the House closed When the doors are so closed no member shall be allowed to retire from the House without first obtaining leave from the House
The Messenger of the House shall be exofficio SergeantatArms of the House and on order of the Speaker may arrest any absentees and bring them before the House when necessary to secure a quorum as aforesaid
CALL OF THE HOUSE
Rule 135 Whenever the result of a vote taken shall disclose the fact that no quorum of the House is present or when the Speaker shall officially state the fact to the House it shall be in order for any member to make a motion for a
Names of absentees noted
Power to
compel
attendance
Sergeant
atarms
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What ia a quorum Compelling attendance QUORUM Rule 136 A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to transact business but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the presence of its absent members as each House may provide Art 3 Sec 4 Par 4
Oath of members Rule 137 Each Senator and Representative before taking his seat shall take the following oath or affirmation towit I will support the Constitution of this State and of the United States and on all questions and measures which may come before me I will so conduct myself as will in my judgment be most conducive to the interest and prosperity of this State
Art 3 Sec 4 Par 5
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Rule 138 No bill shall become a law unless it shall receive a majority of the votes of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and it shall in every instance appear on the Journal
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 14
Rule 139 The yeas and nays on any question shall at the desire of onefifth of the members present be entered on the Journal
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 6
Rule 140 No bill or resolution appropriating money shall become a law unless upon its passage the yeas and nays in each House are recorded
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 12
Rule 141 Whenever the Constitution requires a vote of twothirds of either or both Houses for the passage of an Act or resolution the yeas and nays on the passage thereof shall be entered on the Journal
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 19
Rule 142 Every bill before it shall pass shall be read three times and on three separate days m each House unless in cases of actual invasion or insurrection The first and second reading of local bills shall be by titles only The third reading of local bills must be full and complete
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 7
Rule 143 All bills for raising revenue or appropriating money shall originate in the House
Majority required to pass bill
Yeas and nays order by onefifth of members
Bill or resolutions appropriating money must pass by yeas and nays
Constitutional twothirds vote taken by yeas and nays
Revenue
bills
Reading of bills
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of Representatives but the Senate may propose or concur in amendments as in other bills
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 10
Rule 144 No law or ordinance shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter or
matter etc contains matter different from what is expressed
in the title thereof
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 8
An amend Rule 145 No law or section of the Code shall
ment to laws e amended or repealed by mere reference to its of Codetl0nS title or to the number of the section of the Code but the amending or repealing Act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed as well as the alteration to be made
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 16
General laws how varied
Consent and
when
required
Rule 146 Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provisons have been made by an existing general law No general law affecting private rights shall be varied in any particular case by special legislation except with the consent in writing of all persons to be affected thereby and no person under legal disability to contract is capable of such consent
Art 1 Sec 4 Par 1
Corpora Rule 147 The General Assembly shall have
tions no power to grant corporate powers and privi
leges to private companies except banking insurance railroad canal navigation express and telegraph companies nor to make or change election precincts nor establish bridges or ferries
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nor to change names of legitimate children but it shall prescribe by law the manner in which such power shall be exercised by the courts
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 17
Rule 148 The General Assembly shall have no power to relieve principals or securities upon forfeited recognizances from the payment thereof either before or after judgment thereon unless the principal in the recognizance shall have been apprehended and placed in the custody of the proper officer
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 18
Rule 149 The General Appropriation bill shall embrace nothing except appropriation fixed by previous laws the ordinary expenses of the Executive Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Government paying of the public debt and interest thereon and for the support of the public institutions and educational interests of the State All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills each embracing but one subject
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 9
Rule 150 Neither House shall adjourn for more than three days or to any other place without the consent of the other and in case of disagreement between the two Houses on a question of adjournment the Governor may adjourn either or both of them
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 22
Rule 151 All elections by the General Assembly shall be viva voce and the vote shall appear
Powerdelegrated to courts
Relief of recognizance
What the general appropriation bill shall contain Other appropriations by separate bills
Adjourn
ments
176
Elections
Rejected bills again considered by a twothirds vote
Regular session limited to 40 days
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on the Journal of the House of Representatives When the Senate and House of Representatives unite for the purpose of elections they shall meet in the Representative Hall and the President of the Senate shall in such cases preside and declare result
Art 3 Sec 10 Par 1
Rule 152 All acts shall be signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and no bill or resolution intended to have the effect of a law which shall have been rejected by either house shall be again proposed during the same session under the same or any other title without the consent of twothirds of the House by which the same was rejected
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 13
Rule 153 The General Assembly shall meet in regular session on the second Monday in January 1955 and annually thereafter on the same day until the date shall be changed by law By concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of members elected to both houses the General Assembly may adjourn any regular session to such later date as it may fix for reconvening in regular session but shall remain in regular session no longer than forty 40 days in the aggregate in each year during the term for which the members were elected All business pending in the Senate or House at the adjournment of any regular session may be considered at any later regular session of the same General Assembly as if there had been no adjournment Nothing herein shall be construed to affect the power of the Governor to convoke the General Assembly in extraordinary session or the duty of the Governor to convene the General Assembly in extra
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ordinary session upon the certificate of threefifths of the members elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives as provided in Article V Section I Paragraph XII of this Constitution If an empeachment trial is pending at the end of any regular or extraordinary session the Senate may continue in session until such trial is completed
Art 3 Sec 4 Par 3
Rule 154 Each House shall Jbe the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its members and shall have the power to punish them for disorderly behavior or misconduct by censure fine or imprisonment or expulsion but no member shall be expelled except by a vote of twothirds of the House to which he belongs
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 1
Rule 155 No provision in the Constitution of this State for a twothirds vote of both houses of the General Assembly shall be construed to waive the necessity for the signature of the Governor as in any other case except in the case of the twothirds vote required to override the veto to submit constitutional amendments and in case of prolongation of a session of the General Assembly
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 21
Rule 156 The Governor shall have the revision of all bills passed by the General Assembly before the same shall become laws but twothirds of each House may pass a bill notwithstanding his dissent and if any bill should not be returned by the Governor within five days Sunday excepted after it has been presented to him the same shall be a law unless the General Assembly by their adjournment shall prevent its return He may approve any appropriation
Elections
Disorderly
conduct
Expulsion by twothirds vote
Signature of Governor when required
Governors
veto
178
Effect of twothirds vote thereon
When
Governor
must
approve
Twothirds vote required
Twothirds vote required on amendments to Constitution
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and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill and the latter shall not be effectual unless passed by twothirds of each House
Art 5 Sec 1 Par 15
Rule 157 Every note resolution or order to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary except on a question of election or adjournment shall be presented to the Governor and before it shall take effect be approved by him or being disapproved shall be passed by twothirds of each House
Art 5 Sec 1 Par 16
Rule 158 No county site shall be changed or removed except by a twothirds vote of the qualified voters of the county voting at an election held for that purpose and a twothirds vote of the General Assembly
Art 11 Sec 1 Par 9
Rule 159 Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives and if the same shall be agreed to by twothirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their Journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon and the General Assembly shall cause such amendment or amendments to be published in one or more newspapers in each Congressional District for two months previous to the time of holding the next general election and shall provide for submission of such proposed amendment or amendments to the people at the said next general election and if the people shall ratify such amendment or amendments by a
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majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon such amendment or amendments shall become a part of this Constitution When more than one amendment is submitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately
Art 13 Sec 1 Par 1
Rule 160 No convention of the people shall be called by the General Assembly to revise amend or change the Constitution unless by the concurrence of twothirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly The representation in said convention shall be based on the population as near as practicable
Art 13 Sec 1 Par 2
Rule 161 The Justices of the Supreme Court each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the Judges of the Court of Appeals each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the Judges of the Superior Courts each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 6000 per annum and the Solicitors General shall each have out of the treasury of the State a salary of 250 per annum with the right of the General Assembly to authorize any county to supplement the salary of a judge of the Superior Court and Solicitor General of the Judicial Circuit in which such county lies out of county funds provided however where such salary was at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of this State being supplemented out of county funds under existing laws such laws shall remain in force until altered by the General Assembly Provided further that the
Twothirds vote required to call a convention How called
Salaries of judges
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Evidence of notice of local and special bills must be submitted before passage of same
Board of County Commissioners of Richmond County or the Ordinary or such other board or persons as may from time to time have charge of the fiscal affairs of said county shall without further legislative action continue to supplement from said Countys treasury the salary of the Judge of Superior Court of the circuit of which the said County of Richmond is a part by the sum of Two Thousand Dollars 2000 per annum which shall be in addition to the amount received by said judge out of the State treasury and such payments are declared to be a part of the court expenses of said County and such payment shall be made to the judge in office at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of this State during his term or subsequent terms as well as to his successors with the authority in the General Assembly to increase such salary from the County treasury as above provided
Art 6 Sec 12 Par 1 and Art 3 Sec 7 Par 1
Rule 162 No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the newspaper in which the Sheriffs advertisements for the locality affected are published once a week for three weeks during a period of sixty days immediately preceding its introduction into the General Assembly No local or special bill shall become law unless there is attached to and made a part of said bill a copy of said notice certified by the publisher or accompanied by an affidavit of the author to the effect that said notice has been published as provided by law No office to which a person has been elected shall be abolished nor the term of the office shortened or lengthened by local or special bill during the term for which such person of the jurisdiction affected in a referendum on the question Where
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any local law shall add any member or members to any municipal or county governing authority the members of which are elected by the people such local law must provide that the member or members so added must be elected by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the political subdivision affected
Art 3 Sec 7 Par 15
MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Rule 163 When a message shall be sent to the House of Representatives it shall be announced at the door of the House by the Doorkeeper and be respectfully communicated to the chair by the person through whom it may be sent
Rule 164 Messages may be received at any time while the door is open except while a question is being put or a ballot or a viva voce is being taken A message shall be presented to the House by the Speaker when received or afterwards according to its nature and the business in which the House is engaged or its consideration may on motion be ordered by the House
Rule 165 After a motion is stated by the Speaker or read by the Clerk it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the House but may be withdrawn at any time before the decision by the unanimous consent of the House
Rule 166 Any member presenting a petition memorial or remonstrance shall as concisely as
Messages
Messages when received and considered
Motions
Petitions
memorials
etc
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Committees Rule 167 The several standing committees of the House shall have leave to report by bill or otherwise The report of the Committee on Rules is in order at any time when the House is not actually engaged in other business
Clerk Rule 168 The Clerk of the House shall take an oath for the true and faithful discharge of the duties of his office to the best of his knowledge and abilities and shall be deemed to continue in office until another be elected
Clerk Rule 169 The Clerk shall take special care of the books provided for the use of the House
Duties of Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals Rule 170 The Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals shall carefully compare enrolled bills and resolutions and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills or other papers make their report forthwith to their respective Houses
Motions not privileged Rule 171 Verification of a roll call vote can be dispensed with only by unanimous consent the Speaker shall not entertain a motion to that effect When the roll call system is used no verification of the roll call vote is required
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Rule 172 Whenever on any question the yeas and nays shall have been ordered the Clerk shall also enter on the Journal the names of those members not voting
Rule 173 When a motion is made by any member it shall not be necessary that the same shall be seconded before being put to the House
Rule 174 After the announcement of the standing committee no other members shall be placed thereon except when members have been elected to fill vacancies caused by death or otherwise the Speaker may assign said members to such committees as he may see fit and he may fill any vacancy in chairmanships
Rule 175 No person shall be entitled to enter upon the floor of the house except 1 Members and Officers thereof 2 Members and Officers of the Senate 3 Members of the Press Telegraph and Press Associations Radio and Television Stations and News Reel Photographers who bear proper credentials
Identification cards signed by the Speaker and attested by the Clerk shall be issued to all persons entitled to privileges of the floor under this rule
The Doorkeeper of the House is specifically charged with the duty of enforcing this rule
Not necessary to second motion
Committees how and when engaged
Privileges on the floor
The right is automatically reserved to the
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Privileges of the floor
Duty of Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals
Members to receipt Clerk for books and papers
Adjournment and meeting
Motion for yeas and nays not debatable
Signature of Speaker and Clerk
Duty of Messenger
Speaker to refuse the issuance of or to revoke cards requested or issued to nonmembers of the House and Senate
Wives and children of the members of the House may be admitted on the floor of the House provided they shall not be seated at the desk of any member
No person shall be admitted on the floor of the House who is engaged in lobbying or who is attempting to influence legislation
Rule 176 It shall be the duty of the Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals to read the Journal of each days proceedings and report to the House that the same is correct before the Journal is read by the Clerk
Rule 177 No member shall take any books or papers from the possession of the House or Clerk without first acquainting the Clerk and giving him a receipt to return the same in a reasonable time or on his demand
Rule 178 The House shall convene at 10 a m Sundays excepted unless otherwise ordered by the House The hour of adjournment to be fixed by a majority of said House on motion without debate
Rule 179 A motion for the call of the yeas and nays shall be decided without debate
Rule 180 All Acts and joint resolutions shall be signed by the Speaker and Clerk and all writs warrants and subpoenas issued by order of the House shall be signed by the Speaker and attested by the Clerk
Rule 181 It shall be the duty of the Messenger to attend to the wants of the House while in
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session to aid in the enforcement of order under the direction of the Speaker to execute the demands of the House from time to time together with all such processes issued under its authority as may be directed to him by the Speaker
Rule 182 The Messenger under the direction of the Clerk shall superintend the distribution by the Pages of all documents and papers to be distributed to the members he shall distribute to the members the usual and necessary stationery required by them
Rule 183 No Committee of the Whole or other committee shall deface or interline a bill resolution or other paper referred to said committee but shall report any amendment recommended on a separate paper noting the section page or line to which said amendment relates
Rule 184 No pairing of members shall be recognized or allowed as an excuse for not voting
Rule 185 Whenever any member moves that a Committee of Conference on disagreeing votes of the two Houses naming the number of members be appointed if said motion prevails the Speaker shall appoint a committee on the part of the House and in such case the committee shall consist of only such members as voted in the majority on the position assumed by the House and if by inadvertence any member be nominat
Messengers duty in distributing documents etc
Interlineation
forbidden
Pairing
Committee on conference
186 LEGISLATIVE MANUAL ed on said committee who was not in said majority vote he shall notify the House and be excused by the Speaker
Authority of Conference Committees Rule 185A All conference committee reports shall be printed and distributed to the members prior to consideration of the same unless the printing of the same be dispensed with by a majority vote of all members elected to the House
Amend ments Rule 186 After commitment of a bill and report thereof to the House it may be amended before the report of the committee is agreed to by the House but the amendments if any reported by the committee shall be disposed of before any other amendment be considered unless it be an amendment to a committee amendment
Majority and minority reports Rule 187 All reports of a committee shall be in writing and the minority of a committee may make a report in writing setting forth succinctly the reasons for their dissent Each committee shall wherever practical include with their report on each general bill or resolution a brief resume of the bill and the reasons for the action taken by the Committee If the Committee shall so order the Clerk shall have such report printed and distributed to the members of the House
What motions lie on table Rule 188 Every motion for information from the Executive Department or any other Department of the State Government shall lie on the table one day and on the following day such
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motion shall be deemed privileged and shall he in order for immediate consideration at the request of the author or any other members of the House
Rule 189 On the call of the yeas and nays the Clerk shall read the names of the members changing after they have been called and no member shall votes be permitted to change his vote unless he at that time declares that he voted under a mistake of the question When the roll call system is used this rule shall not be applicable
Rule 190 Questions of privilege shall be Questions of first those affecting the rights of the House col privilege lectively its safety dignity and the integrity of Froviso its proceedings second the rights reputation and conduct of members individually in their representative capacity only and shall have precedence over all other questions except a motion to adjourn Provided that when any matter is before the House no question of personal privilege shall be acted on until the pending question shall be disposed of
Rule 191 In all elections a majority of the members present shall be necessary to a choice
Rule 192 When any question arises which is not provided for in the foregoing Rules the same shall be controlled by the rules usually governing parliamentary bodies
Rule 193 The Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals Committee shall before auditing the account of any member for expenses of a committeeman or any account prescribed by a member for any expense incurred in discharge of
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any duty as a member of this House require of such an itemized statement of such account supported by proper vouchers for each item of said account
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Rule 194 The following shall be the order of business
1 Scripture Reading and Prayer by Chaplain
2 Call of the Roll
3 Report of the Committee on the Journal
4 Reading of the Journal
5 Confirmation of the Journal
6 Unanimous Consents
7 Motions to Reconsider
8 Introduction of Bills and Resolutions
Each member is requested to introduce two copies of each bill or resolution one to be filed in the office of the Speaker by the Clerk and the other to be given to the press
9 First Reading and Reference of House Bills and Resolutions
10 Report of Standing Committees
11 Second Reading of Bills and Resolutions Favorably Reported
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12 Third Reading and Passage of Uncontested Local Bills and Resolutions
13 First Reading and Reference of Senate Bills and Resolutions
14 Unfinished Business of Previous Session
15 Orders of the Day
16 Senate Amendments to House Bills and Resolutions and Reports of Conference Committees
17 House Bills and Resolutions for Third Reading
18 Unless otherwise Ordered by the House Senate Bills and Resolutions for Third Reading or on the Calendar for the Purpose of Disagreeing to an Adverse Committee Report shall be Called on Thursdays
19 The Reports of the Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals May be Made at Any Time
20 General Bills and Resolutions Otherwise in Order for Reconsideration on Friday or Saturday Shall Stand over Until the Following Monday
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COMMITTEES
Rule 195 The Speaker shall appoint the following committees
1 Agriculture
2 Appropriations
3 Auditing Enrolling Engrossing Journals
4 Banks and Banking
5 Defense and Veterans Affairs
6 Education
7 Highways
8 Hygiene and Sanitation
9 Industrial Relations
10 Industry
11 Insurance
12 Interstate Cooperation
13 Judiciary
14 Local Affairs
15 Motor Vehicles
16 Natural Resources
17 Rules
18 Special Judiciary
19 State Institutions Property
20 State of Republic
21 Temperance
22 University System of Georgia
23 Ways and Means
24 Welfare
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No member of the House shall be appointed to or serve on more than 3 regular committees of the House with the exception of the Committee on Interstate Cooperation
The Speaker shall be an exofficio member of all standing committees of the House but shall have no vote as an exofficio member except on the Committee on Rules of which he shall be Chairman The Vice Chairman of the Rules Committee shall be an exofficio member of the Appropriations State of Republic and Ways and Means Committees
The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations shall be exofficio members of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means shall be exofficio members of the Committee on Appropriations
The Speaker shall appoint a Chairman Vice Chairman and a Secretary for all standing committees and for all subcommittees created by him Each committee or subcommittee shall meet upon the call of the Chairman and perfect its organization All subcommittees shall be subject to the will of its parent standing committee and the officers thereof and no Bill shall be reported to the House until it has been acted upon by the full standing committee and all actions of any subcommittee shall be approved or disapproved by the standing committee
Rule 196 Whenever any bill or resolution has been referred to a committee and the same has been held in the custody or control of such committee for ten days without reporting on same the author of such bill or any member of the House shall have the right immediately after the confirmation of the Journal to give notice that on the next regular meeting of the House
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he will subnet a motion instructing such committee to report such bill back to the House after which on the next regular meeting day of the House any member of the House immediately after the confirmation of the Journal may move to instruct such committee to report such bill or resolution back to the House and if the motion prevails it shall be the duty of such committee to report such bill or resolution accordingly with or without recommendation as the case may be at the next regular session and upon failure of said Committee to report such bill accordingly the same shall automatically be returned to the House for consideration Debate on said motion to instruct such committee to report such bill or resolution back to the House shall be limited to twenty minutes unless otherwise ordered by the House and when such bill or resolution is so reported or returned to the House it may be referred or committed as other bills or resolutions Provided that any motion or resolution to set a special order or to change the order of business for any particular day which has been referred to the Committee on Rules may be held in the custody and control of such committee only three days instead of ten days under this rule It shall be the duty of the committee to which any measure providing for an appropriation is referred to report such bill or measure back to the House at least fifteen days prior to the last day of the session regardless of any such notice or motion by the author or any other member
Rule 197 In drawing for seats all members except those who have been permitted by the House to select seats without drawing shall retire to the rear of the Hall The names of all counties printed on separate slips of paper shall be deposited in a box and the box placed on the Clerks desk The names of the counties shall
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be drawn separately from the box and announced by the Clerk from his desk
When the name of a county is announced the member or members from that county shall come forward to the Clerks desk and secure a desk card with name and county printed thereon and then proceed to select his seat All desks shall be arranged in their proper position on the floor of the House and no desk shall be moved or changed
The Speaker shall have the right to reserve seats for the chairmen of the committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means and for the vicechairman of Committee on Rules before the drawing for seats
Rule 198 The Speaker is authorized to employ some person well skilled in legislative draughtsmanship as special clerk for the Committee on Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals It shall be the duty of such special clerk to examine every bill or resolution that is ready for engrossing or enrollment and to suggest to the committee any corrections or additions to either the caption or the bill that are necessary to perfect the same The per diem of such special clerk shall be fixed by the Speaker
Rule 199 In all rules providing for the taking of ayes and nays the electrical roll call system shall be used and shall have the force and effect of a roll call taken as provided in these rules In the event the electrical roll call system is out of operating order the Speaker shall order a viva voce roll call On all other questions or propositions the Speaker may in his discretion order a roll call on the electric roll call system
When the House is ready to vote upon a
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question requiring a roll call and the vote is by electrical roll call the Speaker shall state The question is on designating the matter to be voted upon All in favor of such question shall vote aye and all opposed shall vote nay The Speaker shall then unlock the voting machine
When sufficient time has elapsed for each member to vote the Speaker shall say Have all members voted and after a short pause shall state Does any member desire to change his vote before the machine is locked
The Speaker shall then lock the machine and state The Clerk will now take the vote After the machine is locked by the Speaker no member may change his vote and the votes of tardy members will not be recorded The Speaker shall then announce the results
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INDEX TO STANDING RULES OF Georgia House of Representatives
ABSENTEES Rule No
Auditing Enrolling and Engrossing Journals Committee duty as to 133
Clerks duty as to 133
Roll Call dispensed with when 132
ADJOURN MOTION TO
Committee of whole not in order in 118
Definite time debatable when 56
Effect when motion prevails 59
Motion not debatable55178
Motion not amendable 55
Motion when in order 57
Motion when not in order 58
Precedence of motion 54
Shall not be made second time until when 55
ADJOURNMENT
Constitutional time limit 150
Courtesy to speaker at time of 26
Effect of 59
Effect when hour of arrives when House acting under
previous question I 60
Effect when hour of arrives during vote by yeas and
nays 60
Hour of fixed by House 178
ADVERSE REPORT
Bills and resolutions adversely reported taken up when 40
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Rule No
Debate on final passage 71
Effect of on bills 47
AMENDMENTS
Applicable to an amendment 93
Bills or resolutions amended by sections 101
Bill perfected before caption or preamble 100
Bills perfected before substitute 95
Blanks must be filled 99
Clerks duty in amending by striking out and
inserting 103
Committee of whole action on 125
Committee of whole what reported to House 131
Germane must beI 102
Motion to amend how made 93
Motion to commit amendableB 91
Motion to postpone indefinitely not amendable 79
Motion to postpone to time definite amendable 84
Motion to table amendment not in order 61
Motion to table not amendable 67
Must be in writing 97
Precedence of motion to amend 54
Priority of amendments 98
Priority of amendments to perfect part proposed to
be stricken 104
Priority of over motion to agree or disagree 106
Priority of questions on Senate Amendments to H B 107
Priority of on passage of bill 186
Senate amendments to H B House amendments in
order 105
Senate majority vote to adopt 107a
Reconsidered when 112
Substitute is an amendment 94
When in order 186
When too late96186
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AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION Rule No
Submission to people 159
Convention called 160
APPEALS
From Speakers decision 8
Members may address House 11
No debate when of personal character 9
To be made at once 10
APPLAUSE
Speakers right to suppress 29
APPROPRIATIONS
General bill right of way 40
Governors power over 156
Considered in committee of whole 50
House must originate 143
ATTENDANCE
Call of House 135
Messengers duty 134
Power to compel134135
Speakers duty 134
AUDITING ENROLLING AND ENGROSSING
JOURNALS COMMITTEE
Absentees duty as toZ 133
Accounts of members duty as to 193
Duties of170198
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Amendments and substitutes bill first perfected 95
Amendments by sections 101
Amendments to Code sections 145
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Rule No
Amendments to passed on before those to caption or
preamble 100
Appropriations House must originate 143
Clerk to state number and author when reading 40
Clerk to call in order on calendar 40
Committee of whole how read 117
Committee reports favorable effect of 47
Committee reports unfavorable effects of 47
Committee reports order of precedence 52
Corporations laws relating to 147
Engrossment effect of 47
General appropriations what to embrace 149
General laws how changed 146
Governors approval necessary 157
Governors failure to return 156
Governors veto 156
Immediate transmission when 48
Introduction when 46
Printed when 49
Reconsideration effect of 113
Rejected when again considered 152
Relief of principals and sureties 148
Requirements for 51
Speakers duty to commit 47
Special laws prohibited when 146
Subjectmatter only one and expressed in title 144
Unanimous consent for reading 42
Withdrawal of when 47
Majority necessary to pass 138
Debate none at first reading 47
Constitutional requirements as to readingrt 142
Reading of unanimous consent 42
Reading first no debate 47
Reading constitutional requirement 142
CALL OF HOUSE
Committee of whole not in order 118
Contempt refusal to vote on 14
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Rule No
When in order14135
When not in order 76
CAPTION
Not considered until bill perfected 100
CHANGE OF VOTES
How done and when 189
CLERK
Absence of speaker and speaker pro tem duty of 7
Absentees duty of 133
Amendments striking out and inserting duty of 103
Bills and resolutions how read committee of whole 117
Bills and resolutions called in order from calendar 40
Bills and resolutions name and authors stated 40
Books duty to care for169177
Journal names not voting duty to enter 172
Oath of prescribed 168
CODE SECTIONS
Amendments to Constitutional requirements 145
COMMITTEES
Amendments by take precedence 186
Appointed by speaker 4195
Bills not to be interlined or defaced by 183
Chairmen Appropriations and Ways and Means Ex
Officio Members 196
Conference how constituted1 185
Report of Conference majority vote 107a
Conference authority limited 185a
Defaulting committee provision as to 197
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Rule No
Enlarged how 174
Failure of to report provision as to 196
Membership limited 195
Reports of order of precedence 52
Reports of required195
Reports must be in writing 187
Speaker exofficio member of Rules 4
Speaker to appoint certain committees 4195
Rules committee how elected 4
COMMIT MOTION TO
Amended how 91
Applicable to what 8892
Committee of whole not in order H8
Precedence of as among other motions 54
Precedence of as among motions to commit to different committees 89
COMMITTEE OF WHOLE HOUSE
Amendments by action by House 125
Amendments to amendments how reported to House 131
Appropriation bills considered in 50
Bills read and debated by sections 117
Call of House not in order ng
Chairman appointed by Speaker 116
Chairman power to clear galleries or lobby 127
Debate how limited and closed 119
Disorderly conduct reported 126
Extension of time how secured 120
Formation of 116
House may resolve itself into when 115
Interlineation of bills or resolutions prohibited 183
Journal not show proceedings 129
Members shall vote 124
Motion to commit to precedence 89
Motion to rise report progress and ask leave to sit again 21
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Rule No
Papers called for 130
Proceedings how closed 121
Proceedings not reported in Journal 129
Procedure when business finished 128
Quorum not present procedure 123
Reconsideration in order 122
Reports of precedence 52
Rules applicable to and exceptions 118
Speaker may resolve House into when 114
Speaker may take part 124
Speaker chairman appointed by116
CONSTITUTIONAL RULES
Adjournments limited 150
Amendments to Code sections 145
Amendments to Constitution 159
Appropriation Bills House must originate 143
Appropriation Bill General what to embrace 149
Appropriations Journal to show yeas and nays 140
Bills majority necessary to pass 138
Bills reading of 142
Bills rejected when again considered 152
Bills subjectmatter expressed in title 144
Bills only one subjectmatter permitted 144
Constitutional convention how calledv 160
Corporations power of General Assembly over 147
County sites how changed or removed 157
Date of meetings fixed 153
Elections by General Assembly 151
Expulsion of members twothirds vote necessary 154
General laws how changed 146
General appropriation bill what to embrace 149
Governor failure to return bills 156
Governors signature when required155157
Governors veto 156
House judges of election and qualification of members 154 Journal must show majority vote 138
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Rule No
Journal must show yeas and nays when
required 139140141
Local and special bills notice required 162
Members power to punish misconduct of 154
Members oath of prescribed 137
Quorum defined 136
Relief of principals and sureties 148
Salaries of certain officials how changed 161
Special laws prohibited when 146
Subjectmatter bills to contain but one 144
Subjectmatter must be expressed in title 144
Veto of Governor156
Yeas and nays required when139140141
Yeas and nays Journal to show on Apps 140
Yeas and nays Journal to show where twothirds vote required 141
CONTEMPT
Refusal to vote unless excused on call of House 14
CONTEST
Contestant and contestee to retire when vote taken 22 CONVERSATION
Prohibited 1924
COUNTY SITE
How changed or removed 158
DEBATE
Adjournment decided without Bills first reading no debate Committee of whole regulated
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Committee happenings reference to out of order 27
Conversations reference to out of order 27
Conduct of members ins 17
Individual speeches limited 17
Motion to adjourn not debatable 55
Motion to change rules not debatable 45
Motion to commit when debatable 90
Motion to change order of business not debatable 45
Motion to extend members time of speaking not
debatable 17
Motion to excuse member from voting not debatable 34
Motion to indefinitely postpone debatable 79
Motion to instruct committee debate limited 196
Motion for previous question not debatable 70
Motion to read papers not debatable 33
Motion to suspend rules not debatable 45
Motion to table not debatable 67
Motion to postpone to time definite what debatable 86 Previous question decided affirmatively debate
regulated 71
Priority of business not debatable 16
Roll Call no debate during 30
Senate happenings reference to out of order 27
Yeas and nays decided without debate 179
DISPARAGING REMARKS
Members prohibited from 28
DIVISION
Duty of member calling for 37
Motion to excuse from voting to be made before 34
Right to call for 36
What not divisible 3839
DRAWING FOR SEATS
Regulated 197
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House Judge of of members 154
Majority vote necessary 191
EXCEPTION TO WORDS SPOKEN
Procedure 18
EXPLANATION OF VOTES
When allowed and time limited 32
EXPULSION OF MEMBERS
When 17154
DOORKEEPER
Duty as to enforcement of rule as to intoxication 25
Duty as to messages 163
Speaker may suspend when 12
GALLERIES
Applause to be suppressed 29
Committee of whole chairman may clear 127
Speaker may clear 13
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Meets when 153
Session limited 153
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GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL Rule No
Constitutional provision as to what it shall embrace 149 Right of way in order of business 40
GENERAL LAWS
How changed 146
GENERAL TAX BILL
Right of way of 40
GOVERNOR
Failure to return bill effect 156
Signature when required155157
Veto 166
HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT
Fixed by House 178
IMMEDIATE TRANSMISSION TO SENATE
Twothirds vote necessary 48
INTOXICATION
Member denied floor while in state of 25
JOURNAL
Absentees shown on 133
Amendments to Constitution yeas and nays must be
shown on 159
Appropriation of money yeas and nays shown 140
Committee duty to read 176
Committee of whole proceedings not shown 129
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Majority on passage of bills must be shown 138
Names those not voting shown on 172
Yeas and nays to be shown139140
LAUDATORY REMARKS
Prohibited in Nominations 28
LOCAL BILLS
Constitutional requirements as to reading 142
Constitutional requirements as to notice 162
Introduced when 46
Reading of third time and put on passage by unanimous consent 42
MAIN QUESTION
Effect as to when votes had on motion for previous
question 707173
Minority report time allowed for debate 74
Motion to table supersedes when 69
Reconsideration of 70
When ordered call of House 76
When ordered vote how taken 72
MAJORITY
Bill majority vote necessary to pass 138
Elections majority vote necessary 191
Quorum majority necessary 136
MEMBERS
Adjournment duty of at 26
Arrest subject to when134135136
Attendance of compelled when134135136
Books and papers duty as to 177
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Called to order for transgressing rules 17
Changing votes how and when 189
Committee of whole right to speak 118
Committee of whole duty to vote 124
Conduct in debate 17
Conversation and smoking prohibited 1924
Debate how often to speak 17
Debate individual speeches limited 17
Debate reference to conversations happenings in committee and Senate prohibited 27
Decorum of 1719242627
Designation of members mode of 20
Exceptions to words of procedure 18
Expulsion of when 17154
Interrogating mode of 21
Intoxication denied floor when in state of 25
Introduction of bills name and county to be endorsed 51
Laudatory remarks in nominations 28
Members speaking duty of while 26
Misconduct in house and committee of whole126154
Motion may make one at a time 31
Motion must resume seat while being put 31
Motion prohibited from making nondebatable when 35
Oath of prescribed 137
Protests of proceedings 23
Retire when required to 22
Seats drawing for 197
Vote shall not when interested 22
Vote shall exception 34124
MEMORIALS
Manner of presentation 166
MEETING OF HOUSE
Adjournment fixed by House 178
Time of meeting for daily sessions 178
Constitutional provisions d 153
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How made 187
Main question ordered privileged first signer 74
MESSAGES
How sent announced received and considered 164
MESSENGER
Arrest of members 134135
Exofficio sergeantatarms 134
Intoxicated member enforcement of rule 25
General duties 181182
Speaker may suspend when 12
MOTIONS
Information from executive department lie on table 188
Nondebatable prohibited when 35
One at a time onlyj 31
Order of priority 54
Order of business motion to change not debatable 45
Order of business motion to change vote necessary 53
Read papers motion to decide without debate 33
Rules motion to change or suspend vote necessary 43 Rules motion to change or suspend how submitted414448
Seconding of unnecessary 170
Special orders motion to make how substituted 44
Strike out and insert motion to not divisible 39
Withdrawn how 165
NEW MATTERS
Information from executive department to lie on table 188 Unanimous consents for 42
NOMINATIONS
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OATHS Rule No
Of Clerk prescribed 168
Of Members prescribed 137
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Changed how 434553
Motion to change not debatable 45
Motion to change vote necessary 4353
Priority of established 194
Rules committee to fix during last twentyone days 53
PARLIAMENTARY LAW
Applicable when 192
PETITIONS
Manner of presentation 166
PREAMBLE
Not considered until resolution perfected 100
PREVIOUS QUESTION
Adjourn motion not in order after affirmative
votes on 70
Adjournment effect arrival hour of House acting
under 60
Affirmative votes result70717374
Applicable to what 75
Call of House not in order after ordered except when 76
Call for sustained motion to table in order 69
Exhausted must be before matters of words excepted
to decided 18
Precedence of motion 54
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Applicable to what definite and indefinite 8087
Committee of whole motion to definitely postpone not m order qo
Debate motion to indefinitely postpone debatable but
not amendable ng
Definitely postpone motion to amendabie 84
Effect of affirmative action on motion to indefinitely
postpone 8
Effect of affirmative action on motion to postpone to
time definite og
Effect of negative actionI 83
Indefinitely motion to when not applicable 80
Impossible day motion to postpone to treated how 85
Indefinitely motion to not renewable 81
Precedence of motion 54
PRIVILEGE
Personal privilege jgn
Questions of what constitutes jqq
PRIVILEGES OF FLOOR
Who entitled to yjg
PRINTING OF BILLS
When ordered 49
PROTESTS OF MEMBERS
Procedure 23
QUALIFYING PARAGRAPH Not a divisible question
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QUORUM Rule
Constitutional definition
READING OF PAPERS
House determines by vote
RECONSIDERATION
Amendments when reconsidered1
Bills notice of motion when given
Bills notice not to be withdrawn when
Committee of whole motion in order
Effect of on bills
Main question ordered motion in order to reconsider Motion in order but once on same subject matter
Motions when in order
REMONSTRANCES
Manner of presentation
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Committees may report by bill or otherwise
Order of precedence of
ROLL CALL
Electrical roll call system
Explanation of votes on
Debate none during
How dispensed with
Speaker may order when
RULES
Motion to suspend or change decided without debate Suspended or changed how43
No
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33
112
108
109 122 113
70
110 111
166
167
52
199
32
30
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RULES COMMITTEE Rule No
Constituted and elected how 4
Effect of failure to reportI 44
Order of business fixed by during last twentyone
days 53
Report of in order when 167
Special orders and motions to suspend rules duty to report on 4144
SALARIES
Constitutional provision as to changing 161
SEATS
Drawing for regulated 197
SERGEANTATARMS
Call of House duty of 135
Messenger is exofficio134
SIGNATURE OF SPEAKER AND CLERK
When required g 180
SILENCE
Members to preserve when 19
SMOKING
Prohibited 4
SPEAKER
Absence of Speaker pro tern to preside 7
Adjournment members to remain until Speaker retires 26
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Appeals from decision of891011
Appeals from decision of to be made at once 10
Appeals from decision of no debate when 9
Appointment of committees by 4195
Appointment of chairman of Committee of Whole 116
Appointment of Conference Committee 185
Attendance power to compel 134
Business priority of decided without debate 16
Chairman Committee of Whole appointed by 116
Committees appointed by 4195
Committee of Whole may resolve House into when 114
Committee of Whole assumes chair when 121
Committee of Whole receiving chairmans report 128
Committee of Whole right to take part in 124
Courtesy of members to at adjournment 26
Doorkeeper Speaker may suspend 12
Galleries may be cleared by 13
Interrogation of members conducted through 21
Irrelevant debate power to suspend 1
Members Speaker may name to preside 6
Members courtesy due by at adjournment 26
Method of stating question by 5
Quorum duty of when no quorum voting 1415
Recognition of members decided by 3
Recognition of members for unanimous consent 42
Rules Committee Speaker exofficio member 195
Silence commanded by when 1
Suspension of officers 12
Vote Speaker required to when 2
SPEAKER PRO TEM
Absence of Speaker duty to preside 7
Election 7
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Priority of motion to commit in
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Notice required I 162
Prohibited when 146
SUBJECTMATTER
Bills to contain but one and expressed in title 144
SUBSTITUTE
Amendment is 94
Bill perfected before substitute 95
Motion to table not in order 61
SUSPENSION OF RULES
How accomplished 434445
TABLE MOTION TO
Amendment or substitute motion to table not in order 61
Amendment motion to table not subject to 67
Application of what can be laid on table 68
Committee of Whole motion not in order 118
Debate motion to table not debatable 67
Effect when motion to table prevails 63
Effect when motion to take from table prevails 6264
Effect when motion to take from table prevails where
measure tabled after roll call 65
Executive department information called from tabled
one day 188
Main question motion to table in order after motion
for previous question sustained 69
Main question motion to table not in order after House has voted that main question shall be now
put 69
Motion to take from when in order 62
Previous question motion to table in order after main question ordered 69
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Renewal of motions to table and take from when 66
Roll call motion not in order until completion 65
TWOTHIRDS VOTE NECESSARY WHEN
Amendments to Constitution 159
Constitution Convention 160
County Site changed or removed 158
Expulsion of members 154
Governors veto overridden 155156157
Prolongation of session 155
UNANIMOUS CONSENTS
Limitation and regulation of 42
YEAS AND NAYS
Adjournment effect when hour of arrives during vote
by 60
Amendments to Constitution 159
Changing votes after call of 189
Committee of whole vote not taken by 118
Electrical roll call system 199
Explanation of votes when vote taken by 32
Excuse from voting motion must be made before roll
call begins 34
Journals to show when139140141
Journal to show names not voting 172
Motion to table when in order when vote taken by 65
Required when 72 139 140141
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STATE OF GEORGIA TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
LIST OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS 217
ARTICLE IBill of Rights5 223229
ARTICLE IIElective Franchise i229232
ARTICLE IIILegislative Department232242
ARTICLE IVPower of General Assembly over
Taxation242246
ARTICLE VExecutive Department246256
ARTICLE VIJudiciary 256275
ARTICLE VIIFinance Taxation and Public Debt276307
ARTICLE VIIIEducation 307313
ARTICLE IXHomestead and Exemption 313314
ARTICLE XMilitia 314
ARTICLE XICounties and Municipal Corporations315317
ARTICLE XIIThe Laws of General Operation in
Force in this State317318
ARTICLE XIIIAmendments to the Constitution318320
ARTICLE XIVMerit System 320
ARTICLE XVHome Rule 321
ARTICLE XVISlum Clearance and Redevelopment 321
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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ORGANIC ACTS AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF GEORGIA
Charter of the Colony of Georgia 1732
Grant of George II King of Great Britain
Constitution of 1777
Constitutional Convention Oct 1 1776Feb 5 1777
Constitution of 1789
Constitutional Convention Nov 424 1788 Jan 420 1789 May 46 1789 May 16 1795
Constitution of 1798
Constitutional Convention May 830 1798
Constitution of 1861
Constitutional Convention Jan 16March 23 1861
Constitution of 1865
Constitutional Convention Oct 25Nov 8 1865
Constitution of 1868
Constitutional Convention Dec 9 1867March 11 1868
Constitution of 1877
Constitutional Convention July 11 1877August 25 1877
Constitution of 1945
Ratified General Election August 7 1945 Governors Proclamation August 13 1945
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ADOPTED SINCE RATIFICATION OF CONSTITUTION OF 1945
Amendment to Art VII Sec I Par II subpar so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the payment of one hundred thousand dollars 10000000 for bringing in the first commercial oil well in this State
Amendment to Par 4 Sec 7 of Art 7 to include therein county boards of education as having authority to obtain the loans provided in said paragraph
RATIFIED NOVEMBER 7 1950

Amendment to Par IV Sec IX of Art VII to provide for the appropriation of funds for highway purposes
Amendment to Art VII Sec I Par II Subsec 3 so as to change the levy of taxes permitted on property for any one year by the Gen Assembly for all purposes except to provide for repelling invasions suppressing insurrections or defending the State in time of war from five 5 mills on each dollar of the value of the property taxable in the State to onefourth A mill on each dollar of the value of the property taxable in the State provided however that until some other method permitted by the laws of the United States for the taxation of national banking associations or corporations is enacted by the Gen Assembly for the taxation of the shares of stock of banking corporations and other monied capital coming into competition with such banking corporations such property may be taxed at a rate not exceeding five 5 mills on each dollar of the value thereof
Amendment to Art VII Sec I Par II so as to authorize the Gen Assembly to provide for scholarships to medical students who agree to practice medicine in the State of Georgia and to authorize the granting of scholarships to various schools and clinics to Physicians and other professional personnel employed at the Milledgeville State Hospital
Amendment to Art V Sec I Par XV providing for a period of thirty days after adjournment in which the Governor may approve bills passed by the Gen Assembly Amendment to Art VII Sec II Par I Subpar 5 so as to provide that the Gen Assembly may exercise the power of taxation for the purpose of making provision for the payment of pensions to exConfederate soldiers and to the widows of Confederate soldiers who are unmarried
Amendment to Par 4 Sec 1 Art VII authorizing the Gen Assembly to exempt from taxation intangible personal property owned by a trust forming a part of a pension profit sharing or stock bonus plan exempt from federal income tax under Section 165a of the Federal Internal Revenue Code
Amendment to Art VII Sec II Par I by adding a new paragraph so as to extend to the employees of the State and its subdivisions protection accorded others by the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Program embodied under the Federal Social Security Act and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act
Amendment striking Par XV of Sec VII of Art Ill in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new paragraph providing for notice of intention to apply for local legislation to be advertised in the newspaper in the locality affected to provide for the method of changing term of office or abolishing an office during the term for which a person has been elected and to provide for the method of increasing the membership of any municipal or county governing authority
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Amendment to Art 13 Sec 1 Par 1 providing for the submission of amendments to the Constitution that affect only a county or counties municipality or municipalities
RATIFIED NOVEMBER 4 1952

Amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide for selfgovernment of municipalities
Amendment to Article III Section IV Paragraphs I and III of the Constitution so as to provide for annual sessions of the General Assembly not to exceed forty 40 days
Amendment to Article VII Section I Paragraph IV of the Constitution of Georgia providing for the exemption of all property owned by religious groups for residential purposes and from which no income is derived
Amendment to Article VIII of the Constitution adding a new section relating to education
Amendment to Article VII Section II of the 1945 Constitution of Georgia so as to provide that taxation may be exercised for the purpose of paying pensions under a firemens pension system
Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Georgia by adding a new Article to be designated Article XVI Slum Clearance and Redevelopment
Amendment to the Constitution so as to provide for a procedure by which a county may remove or increase the limitation of the tax levy for education RATIFIED NOVEMBER 2 1954

Amendment to Article VI Section II of the Constitution of Georgia so as to confer upon the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals jurisdiction to review by writ of error all final judgments and adjudications rendered by Juvenile Courts
Amendment to the Constitution so as to change the method of amending the Constitution
Amendment to Article VI Section I of the Constitution authorizing the General Assembly to create traffic courts in and for certain cities Amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to consider business pending at the adjournment of any regular session at any later regular session
Amendment to Article III Section XI Paragraph I of the Constitution changing certain wording
Amendment to Article VI Section XIII of the Constitution of Georgia providing that Chief Justice Emeritus and Justices Emeritus of the Supreme Court and Judges Emeritus of the Superior Courts shall be eligible to preside over their respective courts
Amendment to Article VI Section III Paragraph I of the Constitution fixing the terms of office of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit
Amendment to the Constitution so as to provide for the payment of 25000000 in connection with the bringing in of the first commercial oil well in this State
RATIFIED November 20 1956
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Amendment to Article VII Section I Paragraph IV of the Constitution so as to provide for Homestead exemption for certain disabled veterans
Amendment to Article VII Section I Paragraph II of the Constitution so as to provide the Board of Begents of the University System of Georgia with the authority to grant scholarships to qualified students lacking funds to pursue their education
Amendment to Article VII Section I Paragraph II of the Constitution so as to authorize State departments and State agencies to disburse State funds to match Federal funds in order to provide qualified employees with graduate or postgraduate educational scholarships and for use in other Federal Education Programs
Amendment to Article VII Section I Paragraph II of the Constitution so as to authorize the State Board of Education to grant scholarships to citizens of Georgia to study to become teachers
Amendment to Article VI Section XIII Paragraph II of the Constitution so as to provide that the Chief Justices Emeritus and Justices Emeritus of the Supreme Court Justices Emeritus of the Court of Appeals and Judges Emeritus of the Superior Courts shall be eligible to preside in or over the Supreme Court the Court of Appeals and the Superior Courts
RATIFIED1 NOVEMBER 4 1958
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Governors No 34 House Resolution No 11
A RESOLUTION
Proposing as one single amendment to amend the Constitution of the State of Georgia of 1877 and all amendments thereof by striking in their entirety Article I Bill of Rights Article II Elective Franchise Article III Legislative Department Article IV Power of the General Assembly Over Taxation Article V Executive Department Article VI Judiciarv Article VII Finance Taxation and Public Debt Article VIII Education Article IX Homesteads and Exemptions Article X Militia Article XI Counties and County Officers Article XII The Laws of General Operation m Force in This State Article XIII Amendments to the Constitution and by inserting in lieu thereof after the Preamble of the Constitution of the State of Georgia of 1877 new articles as follows Article I Bill of Rights Article II Elective Franchise Article III Legislative Department Article IV Public Utilities Eminent Domain Police Power Insurance Companies Contracts etc Article V Executive Department Article VI Judiciary Article VII Finance Taxation and Public Debt Article VIII Education Article IX Homesteads and Exemptions Article X Militia Article XI Counties and Municipal Corporations Article XII The Laws of General Operation in Force in This State Article Xlll Amendments to the Constitution Article XIV Merit System and Article XV Home Rule and to provide for the submission of the Amendment so proposed as one Amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Georgia for ratification or rejection at the General Election to be held in August 1945
WHEREAS the purpose of this single amendment is to coordinate the proposed substantial principals of organic law into one subject matter of the Constitution it being impracticable otherwise than in one subject matter and one amendment to perfect the rearrangement sought and to render unnecessary the evil consequences of a portion by portion adoption or rejection which would in case of adoption of some portions and rejection of others result in a Constitution lacking correlation
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GERGIA
Section One
That the Constitution of the State of Georgia of 1877 and ali Amendments thereof appearing after the Preamble be and it is hereby proposed to be amended as one single amendment by striking therefrom in their entirety Article I Bill of Rights Article II Elective Franchise Article III Legislative Department Article IV Power of the General Assembiy Over Taxation Article V Executive Department ArtigfcS Judiciary Artide VII Finance Taxation and Public Debt Article VIII Education Article IX Homesteads and Exemptions Article X Militia Article XI Counties and County Officers Article XII The Laws of General Operation in Force m This State Article XIII Amendments to the Constitution and inserting in lieu thereof new Articles Numbers I through XV inclusive so that when so amended the Constitution of the State of Georgia of 1877 shall read beginning with the Preamble as follows
C ONSTITUTION
OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA
PREAMBLE
To perpetuate the principles of free government insure justice to all preserve peace promote the interest and happiness of the citizen and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty we the people of Georgia relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution
ARTICLE I Bill of Rights
Section I
Paragraph I Origin and foundation of government All government of right originates with the people is founded upon their will only and is instituted solely for the good of the whole Public officers are the trustees and servants of the people and at all times amenable to them
Paragraph II Protection the duty of government Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete
Paragraph III Life liberty and property No person shall be deprived of life liberty or property except by due process of law
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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Sec 1 Par 4
Paragraph IV Right to the courts No person shall be deprived of the right to prosecute or defend his own cause in any of the courts of this State in person by attorney or both
Paragraph V Benefit of counsel accusation list of witnesses compulsory process trial by jury Every person charged with an offense against the laws of this State shall have the privilege and benefit of counsel shall be furnished on demand with a copy of the accusation and a list of the witnesses on whose testimony the charge against him is founded shall have compulsory process to obtain the testimony of his own witnesses shall be confronted with the witnesses testifying against him and shall have a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury
Paragraph VI Crimination of self not compelled No person shall be compelled to give testimony tending in any manner to criminate himself
Paragraph VII Banishment and whipping as punishment for crime Neither banishment beyond the limits of the State nor whipping as a punishment for crime shall be allowed
Paragraph VIII Jeopardy of life or liberty more than once forbidden No person shall be put in jeopardy of life or liberty more than once for the same offense save on his or her own motion for a new trial after conviction or in case of mistrial
Paragraph IX Bail fines punishment arrest abuse of prisoners Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted nor shall any person be abused in being arrested while under arrest or in prison
Paragraph X Costs No person shall be compelled to pay costs except after conviction on final trial
Paragraph XI Habeas corpus The writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended
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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Sec 1 Par 12
Paragraph XII Freedom of conscience All men have the natural and inalienable right to worship God each according to the dictates of his own conscience and no human authority should in any case control or interfere with such rights of conscience
Paragraph XIII Religious opinions liberty of conscience No inhabitant of this State shall Jbe molested in person or property or prohibited from holding any public office or trust on account of his religious opinions but the right of liberty of conscience shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State
Paragraph XIV Appropriations to churches sects etc forbidden No money shall ever be taken from the public Treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church sect or denomination of religionists or of any sectarian institution
Paragraph XV Liberty of speech or of the press guaranteed No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press any person may speak write and publish his sentiments on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that liberty
Paragraph XVI Searches seizures and warrants The right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrant shall issue except upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation particularly describing the place or places to be searched and the persons or things to be seized
Paragraph XVII Slavery and involuntary servitude There shall be within the State of Georgia neither slavery nor involuntary servitude save as a punishment for crime after legal conviction thereof
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Sec 1 Par 18
7
Paragraph XVIII Status of the citizen The social status of the citizen shall never be the subject of legislation
Paragraph XIX Civil authority superior to military The civil authority shall be superior to the military and no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner nor in time of war except by the civil magistrate in such manner as may be provided by law
Paragraph XX Contempts The power of the Courts to punish for contempt shall be limited by legislative acts
Paragraph XXI Imprisonment for debt There shall be no imprisonment for debt
Paragraph XXII Arms right to keep and bear The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed but the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne
Paragraph XXIII Legislative judicial and executive powers separate The legislative judicial and executive powers shall forever remain separate and distinct and no person discharging the duties of one shall at the same time exercise the functions of either of the others except as herein provided
Paragraph XXIV Right to assemble and petition The people have the right to assemble peaceably for their common good and to apply to those vested with the powers of government for redress of grievances by petition or remonstrance
Paragraph XXV Citizens protection of All citizens of the United States resident in this State are hereby declared citizens of this State and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact such laws as will protect them in the full enjoyment of the rights privileges and immunities due to such citizenship
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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Sec 2 Par 1
Section II
Paragraph I Libel jury in criminal cases new trials In all prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence and the jury in all criminal cases shall be the judges of the law and the facts The power of the judges to grant new trials in case of conviction is preserved
Paragraph II Treason Treason against the State of Georgia shall consist in levying war against her adhering to her enemies giving them aid and comfort No person shall be convicted of treason except on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or confession in open court
Paragraph III Conviction effect of No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate
Paragraph IV Lotteries All lotteries and the sale of lottery tickets are hereby prohibited and this prohibition shall be enforced by penal laws
Paragraph V Lobbying penalties Lobbying is declared to be a crime and the General Assembly shall enforce this provision by suitable penalties
Paragraph VI Fraud concealment of property The General Assembly shall have the power to provide for the punishment of fraud and shall provide by law for reaching property of the debtor concealed from the creditor
Section III
Paragraph I Private ways just compensation In case of necessity private ways may be granted upon just compensation being first paid by the applicant Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public purposes without just and adequate compensation being first paid
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Spc 3 Par 2
Paragraph II Attainder ex post facto and retroactive laws etc No bill of attainder ex post facto law retroactive law or law impairing the obligation of contracts or making irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities shall be passed
Paragraph III Revocation of tax exemptions All exemptions from taxation heretofore granted in corporate charters are declared to be henceforth null and void
Section IV
Paragraph I General laws uniform operation how varied Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law No general law affecting private rights shall be varied in any particular case by special legislation except with the free consent in writing of all persons to be affected thereby and no person under legal disability to contract is capable of such consent
Paragraph II What acts void Legislative acts in violation of this Constitution of the Constitution of the United States are void and the Judiciary shall so declare them
Section V
Paragraph I State rights The people of this State have the inherent sole and exclusive rights of regulating their internal government and the police thereof and of altering and abolishing their Constitution whenever it may be necessary to their safety and happiness
Paragraph II Enumeration of rights not denial of others The enumeration of rights herein contained as a part of this Constitution shall not be construed to deny to the people any inherent rights which they may have hitherto enjoyed
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CONSTITUTION OP THE STATE OF GEORGIA Art 1 Sec 6 Par 1
Section VI
Paragraph I Tidewater titles confirmed The Act of the General Assembly approved December 16 1902 which extends the title of ownership of lands abutting on tidal water to low water mark is hereby ratified and confirmed
ARTICLE II
Elective Franchise
Section I
Paragraph I Elections by ballot registration of voters Elections by the people shall be by ballot and only those persons shall be allowed to vote who have been first registered in accordance with the requirements of law
Paragraph II Who shall be an elector entitled to register and vote Every citizen of this State who is a citizen of the United States eighteen years old or upwards not laboring under any of the disabilities named in this Article and possessing the qualifications provided by it shall be an elector and entitled to register and vote at any election by the people Provided that no soldier sailor or marine in the military or naval services of the United States shall acquire the rights of an elector by reason of being stationed on duty in this State
Paragraph III Who entitled to register and vote To entitle a person to register and vote at any election by the people he shah have resided in the State one year next preceding the election and in the county in which he offers to vote six months next preceding the election
Paragraph IV Qualifications of electors Every citizen of this State shall be entitled to register as an elector and to vote in all elections in said State who is not disqualified under the
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provisions of Section II of Article II of this Constitution and who possesses the qualifications prescribed in Paragraphs II and III of this Section or who will possess them at the date of the election occurring next after his registration and who in addition thereto comes within either of the classes provided for in the two following subdivisions of this paragraph
1 All persons who are of good character and understand the duties and obligations of citizenship under a republican form of government or
2 All persons who can correctly read in the English language any paragraph of the Constitution of the United States or of this State and correctly write the same in the English language when read to them by any one of the registrars and all persons who solely because of physical disability are unable to comply with the above requirements but who can understand and give a reasonable interpretation of any paragraph of the Constitution of the United States or of this State that may be read to them by any one of the registrars
Paragraph V Appeal from decision of registrars Any person to whom the right of registration is denied by the registrars upon the ground that he lacks the qualifications set forth in the two subdivisions of Paragraph IV shall have the right to take an appeal and any citizen may enter an appeal from the decision of the registrars allowing any person to register under said subdivisions All appeals must be filed in writing with the registrars within ten days from the date of the decision complained of and shall be returned by the registrars to the office of the clerk of the superior court to be tried as other appeals
Paragraph VI Judgment of force pending appeal Pending an appeal and until the final decision of the case the judgment of the registrars shall remain in full force
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Section II
Paragraph I Registration of electors who disfranchised The General Assembly may provide from time to time for the registration of all electors but the following classes of persons shall not be permitted to register vote or hold any office or appointment of honor or trust in this State towit 1st Those who shall have been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason against the State of embezzlement of public funds malfeasance in office bribery or larceny or of any crime involving moral turpitude punishable by the laws of this State with imprisonment in the penitentiary unless such persons shall have been pardoned 2nd Idiots and insane persons
Section III
Paragraph I Privilege of electors from arrest Electors shall in all cases except for treason felony larceny and breach of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and in going to and returning from the same
Section IV
Paragraph I Holder of public funds No person who is the holder of any public money contrary to law shall be eligible to any office in this State until the same is accounted for and paid into the Treasury
Section V
Pararaph I Sale of liquors on election days The General Assembly shall by law forbid the sale of intoxicating drinks in this State or any political subdivision thereof on all days for the holding of any election in the area in which such election is held and prescribe punishment for any violation of the same
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Section VI
Paragraph I Returns made to whom Returns of election for all civil officers elected by the people who are to be commissioned by the Governor and also for members of the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary of State unless otherwise provided by law
ARTICLE III
Legislative Department Section I
Paragraph I Power vested in General Assembly The legislative power of the State shall be vested in a General Assembly which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives
Section II
Pargraph I Number of senators and senatorial districts The Senate shall consist of not more than fiftyfour members and there shall be not more than fiftyfour Senatorial Districts with one Senator from each District as now constituted or as hereafter created The various Senatorial Districts shall be comprised of the counties as now provided and the General Assembly shall have authority to create rearrange and change these Districts within the limitation herein stated
Section III
Paragraph I Number of representatives The House of Representatives shall consist of representatives apportioned among the several counties of the State as follows To the eight counties having the largest population three representatives
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each to the thirty counties having the next largest population two representatives each and to the remaining counties one representative each
Paragraph II Apportionment changed how The above apportionment shall be changed by the General Assembly at its first session after each census taken by the United States Government in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph I of Section III of this article
Section IV
Paragraph I Term of Members The members of the General Assembly shall be elected for two years and shall serve until the time fixed by law for the convening of the General Assembly in the year following the second year of such members term of office
Paragraph II Election when The first election for members of the General Assembly under this Constitution shall take place on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1946 and subsequent elections biennially on that day until the day of election is changed by law
Paragraph III Meeting of the General Assembly The General Assembly shall meet in regular session on the second Monday in January 1955 and annually thereafter on the same day until the date shall be changed by law By concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of members elected to both Houses the General Assembly may adjourn any regular session to such later date as it may fix for reconvening in regular session but shall remain in regular session no longer than forty 40 days in the aggregate in each year during the term for which the members were elected All business pending in the Senate or House at the adjournment of any regular session may be considered at any later regular session of the same General Assembly as if there had been no adjournment
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Nothing herein shall be construed to affect the power of the Governor to convoke the General Assembly in extraordinary session or the duty of the Governor to convene the General Assembly in extraordinary session upon the certificate of threefifths of the members elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives as provided in Article Y Section I Paragraph XII of this Constitution If an impeachment trial is pending at the end of any regular or extraordinary session the Senate may continue in session until such trial is completed
Paragraph IV Quorum A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to transact business but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the presence of its absent members as each house may provide
Paragraph V Oath of members Each Senator and Representative before taking his seat shall take the following oath or affirmation towit I will support the Constitution of this State and of the United States and on all questions and measures which may come before me I will so conduct myself as will in my judgment be most conducive to the interests and prosperity of this State
Paragraph VI Eligibility appointments forbidden No person holding a military commission or other appointment pr office having any emolument or compensation annexed thereto under this State or the United States or either of them except Justices of the Peace and officers of the militia nor any defaulter for public money or for any legal taxes required of him shall have a seat in either house nor shall any Senator or Repre
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sentative after his qualification as such be elected by the General Assembly or appointed by the Governor either with or without the advice and consent of the Senate to any office or appointment having any emolument annexed thereto during the time for which he shall have been elected unless he shall first resign his seat provided however that during the term for which he was elected no Senator or Representative shall be appointed to any civil office which has been created during such term
Paragraph VII Removal from district or county effect of The seat of a member of either house shall be vacated on his removal from the district or county from which he was elected
Section V
Paragraph I Qualifications of Senators The Senators shall be citizens of the United States who have attained the age of twentyfive years and who shall have been citizens of this State for four years and for one year residents of the district from which elected
Paragraph II President The presiding officer of the Senate shall be styled the President of the Senate A President Pro Tempore shall be elected viva voce from the Senators and shall act in case of the death resignation or disability of the President or in the event of his succession to the executive power
Paragraph III Impeachments The Senate shall have the sole power to try impeachments
Paragraph IV Trial of impeachments When sitting for that purpose the members shall be on oath or affirmation and shall be presided over by the Chief Justice or the Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court Should the Chief Justice be disqualified the Senate shall select a Justice of the Supreme Court to preside No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of twothirds of the members present
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Paragraph V Judgments in impeachments Judgments in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor trust or profit within this State but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment trial judgment and punishment according to law
Section VI
Paragraph I Qualifications of representatives The Representatives shall be citizens of the United States who have attained the age of twentyone years and who shall have been citizens of this State for two years and for one year residents of the counties from which elected
Paragraph II Speaker The presiding officer of the House of Representatives shall be styled the Speaker of the House of Representatives and shall be elected viva voce from the body
Paragraph III Power to impeach The House of Representatives shall have the sole power to vote impeachment charges against all persons who shall have been or may be in office
Section VII
Paragraph I Election returns etc disorderly conduct Each House shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its members and shall have power to punish them for disorderly behavior or misconduct by censure fine imprisonment or expulsion but no member shall be expelled except by a vote of twothirds of the House to which he belongs
Paragraph II Contempts how punished Each House may punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the session any person not a member who shall be guilty of a contempt by any disorderly behavior in its presence or who shall rescue or attempt to rescue any person arrested by order of either House
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Pararaph III Privilege of members The members of both Houses shall be free from arrest during their attendance on the General Assembly and in going thereto or returning therefrom except for treason felony larceny or breach of the peace and no member shall be liable to answer in any other place for anything spoken in debate in either House
Paragraph IV Journals and acts Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish it immediately after its adjournment The General Assembly shall provide for the publication of the laws passed by each session
Paragraph V Where journals kept The original journal shall be preserved after publication in the office of the Secretary of State but there shall be no other record thereof
Paragraph VI Yeas and nays when taken The yeas and nays on any question shall at the desire of onefifth of the members present be entered on the Journal
Paragraph VII Bills to be read Every bill before it shall pass shall be read three times and on three separate days in each House unless in cases of actual invasion or insurrection but the first and second reading of each local bill shall consist of the reading of the title only unless said bill is ordered to be engrossed
Paragraph VIII One subject matter expressed No law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof
Paragraph IX General appropriations bill The General appropriations bill shall embrace nothing except appropriations fixed by previous laws the ordinary expenses of the Executive Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Government payment of the public debt and interest thereon and for support of the public institutions and educational interests of the State All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills each embracing but one subject
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Paragraph X Bills for revenue All bills for raising revenue or appropriating money shall originate in the House of Representatives but the Senate may propose or concur in amendments as in other bills
Paragraph XI Public money how drawn No money shall be drawn from the Treasury except by appropriation made by law
Paragraph XII Bills appropriating money No bill or resolution appropriating money shall become a law unless upon its passage the yeas and nays in each house are recorded
Paragraph XIII Acts signed rejected bills All acts shall be signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of theHouse of Representatives and no bill or resolution intended to have the effect of a law which shall have been rejected by either house shall be again proposed during the same session under the same or any other title without the consent of twothirds of the House by which the same was rejected
Paragraph XIV Majority of members to pass bill No bill shall become a law unless it shall receive a majority of the votes of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and it shall in every instance so appear on the Journal
Paragraph XV Notice of intention to ask local legislation necessary No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the newspaper in which the Sheriffs advertisements for the locality affected are published once a week for three weeks during a period of sixty days immediately preceding its introduction into the General Assembly No local or special bill shall become law unless there is attached to and made a part of said bill a copy of said notice certified by the publisher or accompanied by an affidavit of the author to the effect that said notice has been published as provided by law No office to which
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a person has been elected shall be abolished nor the term of the office shortened or lengthened by local or special bill during the term for which such person was elected unless the same be approved by the people of the jurisdiction affected in a referendum on the question When any local law shall add any member or members to any municipal or county governing authority the members of which are elected by the people such local law must provide that the member or members so added must be elected by the qualified voters of the political subdivision affected under such rules as the General Assembly may in said law provide
Paragraph XVI Statutes and sections of code how amended No law or section of the code shall be amended or repealed by mere reference to its title or to the number of the section of the Code but the amending or repealing act shall distinctively describe the law to be amended or repealed as well as the alteration to be made
Paragraph XVII Corporate powers how granted The General Assembly shall have no power to grant corporate powers and privileges to private companies to make or change election precincts nor to establish bridges or ferries nor to change names of legitimate children but it shall prescribe by law the manner in which such powers shall be exercised by the courts it may confer this authority to grant corporate powers and privileges to private companies to the judges of the superior courts of this State in vacation All corporate powers and privileges to banking trust insurance railroad canal navigation express and telegraph companies shall be issued and granted by the Secretary of State in such manner as shall be prescribed by law and if in any event the Secretary of State should be disqualified to act in any case then in that event the legislature shall provide by general laws by what person such charter shall be granted
Paragraph XVIII Recognizances The General Assembly shall have no power to relieve principals or securities upon for
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feited recognizances from the payment thereof either before or after judgment thereon unless the principal in the recognizance shall have been apprehended and placed in the custody of the proper officers
Paragraph XIX Yeas and nays to be entered when Whenever the Constitution requires a vote of twothirds of either or both houses for the passage of an act or resolution the yeas and nays on the passage thereof shall be entered on the Journal
Paragraph XX Powers of the General Assembly The General Assembly shall have the power to make all laws consistent with this Constitution and not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States which they shall deem necessary and proper for the welfare of the State
Paragraph XXI Signature of Governor No provision in this Constitution for a twothirds vote of both houses of the General Assembly shall be construed to waive the necessity for the signature of the Governor as in any other case except in the case of the twothirds vote required to override the veto to submit constitutional amendments and in case of prolongation of a session of the General Assembly
Paragraph XXII Adjournments Neither House shall adjourn for more than three days or to any other place without the consent of the other and in case of disagreement between the two Houses on a question of adjournment the Governor may adjourn either or both of them
Paragraph XXIII Zoning and planning laws The General Assembly of the State shall have authority to grant the governing authorities of the municipalities and counties authority to pass zoning and planning laws whereby such cities or counties may be zoned or districted for various uses and other or different uses prohibited therein and regulating the use for which
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said zones or districts may be set apart and regulating the plans for development and improvements on real estate therein
Paragraph XXIV Civil service equal preference to veterans Neither the State of Georgia nor any political subdivision thereof shall inaugurate or maintain any civil service scheme of any nature whatever which fails to provide for honorably discharged veterans of any war and the said State of Georgia or any political subdivision shall if a civil service scheme is originated or is already in force provide equal preferences accorded to such veterans as now exist under Federal Civil Service Laws
Paragraph XXV Street Railways The General Assembly shall not authorize the construction of any street passenger railway within the limits of any incorporate town or city without the consent of the Corporate Authorities
Section VIII
Paragraph I Officers of the two houses The officers of the two houses other than the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House shall be a President Pro Tempore and Secretary of the Senate and Speaker Pro Tempore and Clerk of the House of Representatives and such assistants as each House may provide for
Section IX
Paragraph I Compensation expense and mileage The per diem of members of the General Assembly shall be 1000 per day plus the additional sum of 500 per day for maintenance expense and the mileage shall not exceed 10 cents for each mile traveled by the nearest practical route in going to and returning from the Capitol but the President Pro Tempore of the Senate when serving as presiding officer thereof and the
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Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each receive 1500 per day as per diem plus the additional sum of 500 per day for maintenance expense
Section X
Paragraph I Viva voce vote place of meeting All elections by the General Assembly shall be viva voce and the vote shall appear on the Journal of the House of Representatives When the Senate and House of Representatives unite for the purpose of elections they shall meet in the Representative Hall and the President of the Senate shall in such cases preside and declare the result
Section XI
Paragraph I Salaries of elective officials how changed The General Assembly may at any time by a majority vote of both branches prescribe other and different salaries for all the elective officers provided for in this Constitution but no such change shall diminish the amount of any salary set forth in the Constitution
ARTICLE IV
Public Utilities Eminent Domain Police Power Insurance Companies Contracts Etc
Section I
Paragraph I Public utility tariffs and charges The power and authority of regulating railroad freight and passenger tariffs and of charges of public utilities for their services of preventing unjust discriminations and requiring reasonable
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and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs and of charges of public utilities are hereby conferred upon the General Assembly whose duty it shall be to pass laws from time to time to regulate such tariffs and charges to prohibit unjust discriminations by the various railroads and public utilities of this State and to prohibit said railroads and public utilities from charging other than just and reasonable rates and to enforce the same by adequate penalties provided nevertheless that such power and authority shall never be exercised in any way to regulate or fix charges of such public utilities as are or may be owned or operated by any county or municipality of this State except as provided in this Constitution
Paragraph II Rebates No public utility company shall give or pay any rebate or bonus in the nature thereof directly or indirectly or do any act to mislead or deceive the public as to the real rates charged or received for freight or passage or services furnished any such payments shall be illegal and void and these prohibitions shall be enforced by suitable penalties
Section II
Paragraph I Right of eminent domain The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged nor so construed as to prevent the General Assembly from taking property and franchises and subjecting them to public use
Paragraph II Police power The exercise of the police power of the State shall never be abridged nor so construed as to permit the conduct of business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of others or the general wellbeing of the State
Section III
Paragraph I Charters revived or amended subject to Constitution The General Assembly shall not remit the forfeiture
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f the charter of any corporation now existing nor alter or amend the same nor pass any other general or special law for the benefit of said corporation except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provisions of this Constitution and every amendment of any charter of any corporation in this State or any special law for its benefit accepted thereby shall operate as a novation oi said charter and shall bring the same under the provision of this Constitution v
Section IV
Paragraph I Contracts to defeat competition All contracts and agreements which may have the effect or be intended to have the effect to defeat or lessen competition or to encourage monopoly JhaU be illegal and void The General Assembly of this State shall have no power to authorize any such contract or agreement
Paragraph II General Assembly to enforce Article The General Assembly shall enforce the provisions of this Article bv appropriate legislation
Paragraph III Public Service Commission as constitutional officers There shall be a Public Service Commission for the regulation of utilities vested with the jurisdiction powers and duties now provided by law or that may hereafter be prescribed bJ General Assembly not inconsistent with other provisions oi this Constitution Such Commission shall consist of five members who shall be elected by the people A chairman shall be selected by the members of the Commission from its membership The first Commission under this amendment shall consist of the commissioners in office at the time of the adoption ol this constitutional amendment and they shall serve until December 31st after the general election at which the successor of each member is elected Thereafter all succeeding terms of members shall be for six years The qualifications compensa
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tions filling of vacancies manner and time of election power and duties of members of the Commission including the chairman shall be such as are now or may hereafter be provided by the General Assembly
Section V
Paragraph I Wifes separate estate All property of the wife at the time of her marriage and all property given to inherited or acquired by her shall remain her separate property and not be liable for the debts of her husband
Section VI
Paragraph I Nonresident insurance companies All life insurance companies now doing business in this State or which may desire to establish agencies and do business m the State of Georgia chartered by other States of the Union or foreign States shall show that they have deposited with the Comptroller General of the State in which they are chartered or of this State the Insurance Commissioner or such other officer as may be authorized to receive it not less than one hundred thousand dollars in such securities as may be deemed by such officer equivalent to cash subject to his order as a guarantee fund for the security of policyholders
Paragraph II License by Comptroller General When such showing is made to the Comptroller General of the State oi Georgia by a proper certificate from the State official having charge of the funds so deposited the Comptroller General of the State of Georgia is authorized to issue to the company making such showing a license to do business in the State upon paying the fees required by law
Paragraph III Resident insurance companies guarantee fund All life insurance companies chartered by the State of Georgia or which may hereafter be chartered by the State
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shall before doing business deposit with the Comptroller Genffijfqthe State of Georgia or with some strong corporation which may be approved by said Comptroller General one hundred thousand dollars in such securities as may be deemed by him equivalent to cash to be subject to his order as a guarantee fund for the security of the policyholders of the company making such deposit all interest and dividends from such securities to be paid when due to the company so depositing Any such securities as may be needed or desired by the company may be taken from said department at any time by replacing them with other securities equally acceptable to the Comptroller General whose certificate for the same shall be furnished to the company
Paragraph I Governor Term of Office Salary etc The executive power shall be vested in a Governor who shall hold hfilcedurinS term of four years and until his successor shall be chosen and qualified The Governor serving at tinu
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ness in this State whether chartered by this State or otherwise to deposit reasonable securities with the Treasurer of this State to secure the people against loss by the operations of said
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ARTICLE V Executive Department Section I
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of the adoption of this Constitution and future Governors shall not be eligible to succeed themselves and shall not be eligible to hold the office until after the expiration of four years from the conclusion of his term of office He shall have a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum until January 1 1947 The salary of the Governor for each year thereafter shall be twelve thousand dollars per annum until otherwise provided by a law passed by a majority vote of both branches of the General Assembly which shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected nor shall he receive within that time any other emolument from the United States or either of them or from any foreign power The State officers required by this Constitution to be elected at the same time for the same term and in the same manner as the Governor shall also hold office for four years
Paragraph II Election for Governor The first election for Governor under this Constitution shall be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November of 1946 and the Governorelect shall be installed in office at the next session of the General Assembly An election shall take place quadrennially thereafter on said date until another date be fixed by the General Assembly Said election shall be held at the places of holding general elections in the several counties of this State in the manner prescribed for the election of members of the General Assembly and the electors shall be the same
Paragraph III Returns of elections The returns for every election of Governor shall be sealed up by the managers separately from other returns and directed to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives and transmitted to the Secretary of State who shall without opening said returns cause the same to be laid before the Senate on the day after the two houses shall have been organized and they shall be transmitted by the Senate to the House of Representatives
Paragraph IV How returns published The members of each branch of the General Assembly shall convene in the Represen
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tative Hall and the President of the Senate and Speaker of Representatives shall open and publish the returns
in the presence and under the direction of the General Assembly and the person having the majority of the whole number of votes shall be declared duly elected Governor of this State but if no person shall have such majority then from the two persons having the highest number of votes who shall be in life and shall not decline an election at the time appointed for the General Assembly to elect the General Assembly shall immediately elect a Governor viva voce and in all cases of election
g ItrJythu General Asembly a majority of the members present shall be necessary to a choice
Paragraph V Contested elections Contested elections shall be determined by both houses of the General Assembly in such manner as shall be prescribed by law
Paragraph VI Qualifications of Governor No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor who shall not have been a citizen of the United States fifteen years and a citizen of the State six years and who shall not have attained the age of thirty years 6
Paragraph VII Lieutenant Governor Succession to executive power There shall be a Lieutenant Governor who shall be elected at the same time for the same term and in the same manner as the Governor He shall be President of the Senate and shall receive the sum of 2000 per annum In case of the death resignation or disability of the Governor the Lieutenant Governor shall exercise the executive power and receive the compensation of the Governor until the next general election for members of the General Assembly at which a successor to the Governor shall be elected for the unexpired term but if such death resignation or disability shall occur within thirty days of the next general election or if the term will expire within ninety days after the next general election the Lieutenant Governor shall exercise the executive power and receive che compensation of the Governor for the unexpired term If
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the Lieutenant Governor shall become a candidate for the unexpired term of the Governor he shall thereby resign his office as Lieutenant Governor effective upon the qualification of the Governor elected for the unexpired term and his successor for the unexpired term shall be elected at such election In case of the death resignation or disability of both the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall exercise the executive power until the removal of the disability or the election and qualification of a Governor at a special election which shall be held within sixty days from the date on which the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall assume the executive power A Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the general election in 1946 and shall qualify at the same time as the Governor Until the qualification of a Lieutenant Governor the provisions of Article V Section I Paragraph VIII of the Constitution of Georgia of 1877 shall remain of full force and effect
Paragraph VIII Unexpired terms filling of The General Assembly shall have power to provide by law for filling unexpired terms by special elections except as provided in this Constitution
Paragraph IX Oath of office The Governor shall before he enters on the duties of his office take the following oath or affirmation I do solemnly swear or affirm as the case may be that I will faithfully execute the office of Governor of the State of Georgia and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the Constitution thereof and the Constitution of the United States of America
Paragraph X Commanderinchief The Governor shall be commanderinchief of the army and navy of this State and of the militia thereof
Paragraph XI Reprieves and pardons State Board of Pardons and Paroles The Governor shall have power to suspend the execution of a sentence of death after conviction for of
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fenses against the State until the State Board of Pardons and Paroles hereinafter provided shall have an opportunity of hearing the application of the convicted person for any relief within the power of such Board or for any other purpose which may be deemed necessary by the Governor Upon conviction for treason the Governor may only suspend the execution of the sentence and report the case to the General Assembly at the next meeting thereof when the General Assembly shall either pardon commute the sentence direct its execution or grant a further reprieve The Governor shall at each session of the General Assembly communicate to that body each case of suspension of sentense stating the name of the convict the offense for which he was convicted the sentence and its date the date of the reprieve or suspension and the reasons for granting the same He shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed and shall be a conservator of the peace throughout the State There shall be a State Board of Pardons and Paroles composed of three members who shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate Appointments made at times when the Senate is not in session shall be effective ad interim The first members shall be appointed for terms of three five and seven years respectively to be designated by the Governor and all subsequent appointments shall be for a period of seven years except in case of an unexpired term The Governor shall not be a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles The members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall each receive an annual salary of 500000 payable monthly The State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall have power to grant reprieves pardons and paroles to commute penalties remove disabilities imposed by law and may remit any part of a sentence for any offense against the State after conviction except in cases of treason or impeachment and except in cases in which the Governor refuses to suspend a sentence of death Provided that such board shall act on all applications within 90 days from the filing of same and in all cases a majority shall decide the action of the Board Except if any member for any
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cause is unable to serve in any case involving capital punishment the Governor shall act as the third member of said Board and the action so taken in such instance shall be by unanimous vote The State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall at each session of the General Assembly communicate to that body in full detail each case of pardon parole commutation removal of disabilities or remission of sentences granted stating the name of the convict the offense for which he was convicted the sentence and its date the date of the pardon parole commutation removal of disabilities or remission of sentence and the reasons for granting the same and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles may make rules and regulations as may be authorized by law The first Board of Pardons and Paroles under this provision may be those in office under an act of the General Assembly creating such a Board existing at the time of the adoption of this amendment which if so existing shall be in lieu of such a Board to be created by the General Assembly subsequent to the adoption of this amendment and which Board shall have all the rights privileges powers and duties the same as if it was so subsequently created and the terms of members of such Board shall date from the time specified in the existing Act of the General Assembly The General Assembly may enact laws in aid of but not inconsistent with this amendment
Paragraph XII Writs of election called sessions of the General Assembly The Governor shall issue writs of election to fill all vacancies that may happen in the Senate and the House of Representatives and shall give the General Assembly fop time to time information of the State of the Commonwealth and recommend to their consideration such measures as he may deem necessary or expedient The Governor shall have power to convoke the General Assembly on extraordinary occasions but no law shall be enacted at called sessions of the General Assembly except such as shall relate to the object stated in his proclamation convening them Providing that such called sessions of the General Assembly shall not exceed 70 days in length unless at the expiration of said period there shall be
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pending an impeachment trial of some officer of the State Government in which event the General Assembly will be authorizpletedremain ln session until such trial shall have been com
Pfh T7ever that when threefifths of the members elected to the House of Representatives and threefifths of the
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bfthedntvof the Statef W shallSu ffve davfr ttld GovernoI an mandatory upon him within convenpytad recAeipt i1such certificate or certificates to convene said General Assembly m extraordinary session for all
RlrpScfSnd ln1tJev said Goyernor shall within said time Sundays excluded fail or refuse to convene said General Assembly as aforesaid then and in that event said General Assembly may convene itself in extraordinary session as if convened in regular session for all purposes provided that such
ni 5nd arySeIf criXened sessipu shall be limited to a period of 30 days unless at the expiration of said period there shall reJldinga impeachment trial of some officer of the State in wluci1 event the General Assembly shall be completed t0 remain ln session until such trial shall have been
The members of the General Assembly shall receive the same per diem and mileage during such extraordinary session as is now or may be hereafter provided
Paragraph XIII Pilling vacancies When any office shall become vacant by death resignation or otherwise the Governpr shull have power to fill such vacancy unless otherwise provided by law and persons so appointed shall continue in office until a successor is commissioned agreeably to the mode pointed out by this Constitution or by laws in pursuance thereof
Paragraph XIV Appointments rejected A person once re
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jected by the Senate shall not be reappointed by the Governor to the same office during the same session or the recess thereafter
Paragraph XV Governors veto The Governor shall have the revision of all bills passed by the General Assembly before the same shall become laws but twothirds of each house may pass a law notwithstanding his dissent and if any bills should not be returned by the Governor within five days Sunday excepted after it has been presented to him the same shall be a law unless the General Assembly by their adjournment shall prevent its return in which event the Governor shall have thirty days Sundays excepted from the date of adjournment in which to approve the same and if not approved within that time the same shall not become a law He may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill and the latter shall not be effectual unless passed by twothirds of each House
Paragraph XVI Governor to approve resolutions etc Every vote resolution or order to which the concurrence of both houses may be necessary except on a question of election or adjournment shall be presented to the Governor and before it shall take effect be approved by him or being disapproved shall be repassed by twothirds of each house provided however that nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to confer on the Governor the right to veto or enter his disapproval of any proposal made by the General Assembly to amend this Constitution
Paragraph XVII Information from officers and employees suspension of officers The Governor may require information in writing from Constitutional officers department heads and all State employees on any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices or employment The General Assembly shall have authority to provide by law for the suspension of any Constitutional officer or department head from the discharge of the duties of his office and also for the appointment of a suitable person to discharge the duties of the same
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Section II
Other Executive Officers
Paragraph I Executive Officers How Elected The Secretary of State Attorney General State School Superintendent Comptroller General Treasurer Commissioner of Agriculture and Commissioner of Labor shall be elected by the persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly at the same time and in the same manner as the Governor The provisions of the Constitution as to the transmission of the returns of the election counting the votes declaring the results deciding when there is no election and when there is a contested election applicable to the election of Governor shall apply to the election of the named executive officers they shall be commissioned by oie Governor and hold their offices for the same time as the Governor
Paragraph IK Duties Authority and Salaries of Other Executive Officers The General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the duties authority and salaries of the executive officers and to provide help and expenses necessary for the operation of the department of each
Paragraph III Profit From Use of Public Money No State official shall be allowed directly or indirectly to receive any fee interest or reward from any person bank or corporation for the deposit or use in any manner of the public funds and the General Assembly shall enforce this provision by suitable penalties
Paragraph IV Qualifications No person shall be eligible to the office of the Secretary of State Attorney General State School Superintendent Comptroller General Treasurer Commissioner of Agriculture and Commissioner of Labor unless he shall have been a citizen of the United States for ten years and shall
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have resided in this State for six years next preceding his election and shall be twentyfive years of age when elected All of said officers shall give bond and security under regulation to be prescribed by law for the faithful discharge of their duties
Paragraph V Fees and Perquisites Denied No State official named in Paragraph I of this Section shall be allowed any fee perquisite or compensation other than their salaries as prescribed by law except their necessary expenses when absent from the seat of government on business for the State
Section III
Paragraph I Great seal what constitutes custody when affixed to instruments The great seal of the State shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State and shall not be affixed to any instrument of writing except by order of the Governor or General Assembly and that now in use shall be the great seal of the State until otherwise provided by law
Section IV
Paragraph I Game and Fish Commission There is hereby created a State Game and Fish Commission Said Commission shall consist of one member from each Congressional District in this State and one additional member from one of the following named counties towit Chatham Bryan Liberty McIntosh Glynn or Camden The first members of the Commission shall consist of those in office at the time this Constitution is adopted with terms provided by law Thereafter all succeeding appointments shall be made by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate for a term of seven years from the expiration of the previous term All members of the Commission shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified Vacancies in office shall be filled by appointment of the Governor and submitted to the Senate for confirmation at the
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next session of the General Assembly after the making of the appointment
The Commission shall have such powers authority duties and shall receive such compensation and expenses as may be delegated or provided for by the General Assembly
Section V
State Board op Corrections
Paragraph I State Board of Corrections How Composed Director There shall be a State Board of Corrections composed of five members in charge of the State Penal System The Board shall have such jurisdiction powers duties and control of the State Penal System and the inmates thereof as shall be provided by law The Board shall elect a Director of Corrections who shall be the executive officer of the Board The Board of Corrections shall be appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate The first appointment shall be for terms of one two three four and five years and their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years each The compensation of the Director and members of the Board shall be fixed by law
Section VI
State Department of Veterans Service
Paragraph I Veterans Service Board How Composed Director There shall be a State Department of Veterans Service and Veterans Service Board composed of seven members who shall have such control duties powers and jurisdiction of the
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State Department of Veterans Service as shall be provided by law Said Board shall appoint a director who shall be the executive officer of the Department Members of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and all members of the Board and the Director shall be veterans of some war in which the United States has engaged
The first appointments shall be for terms of one two three four five six and seven years Thereafter all terms and appointments except in case of vacancy shall be for seven years Vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Governor
ARTICLE VI
Judiciary
Section I
Paragraph I Courts Enumerated The judicial powers of this State shall be vested in a Supreme Court a Court of Appeals Superior Courts Courts of Ordinary Justices of the Peace Notaries Public who are exofficio Justices of the Peace and such other Courts as have been or may be established by law
Paragraph II The General Assembly may in its discretion create a new court or system of courts in andfor each city having a population of more than 300000 according to the last or any future federal decennial census conferring upon such new court or system of courts jurisdiction to issue warrants try cases and impose sentences thereon in all misdemeanor cases arising under any law of the State regulating the ownership or operation of motor vehicles within its territorial jurisdiction together with provisions as to rules organization and procedure in such courts and as to new trials and the correction of errors in and by such courts and with such further provision
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for the correction of errors by the Superior Court or the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court as the General Assembly may from time to time in its discretion provide or authorize Any court so established shall not be subject to the rules of uniformity in Paragraph I Section IX of Article VI of the Constitution of 1945 The General Assembly is authorized to delegate to the governing authorities of any such municipality any and all powers necessary and appropriate for the establishment operation and maintenance of such court
Section II
Paragraph I Supreme Court Justices Quorum The Supreme Court shall consist of seven associate justices who shall from time to time as they may deem proper elect one of their member as Chief Justice and one as Presiding Justice the office f Chief Justice as it has heretofore existed under this Constitution being hereby converted into the office of an associate justice with the same right of incumbency and the same succession as to terms as applied to the former office The Chief Justice so elected by the other Justices shall be the chief presiding and administrative officer of the court and the Presiding Justice elected in like manner shall perform all the duties devolving upon the Chief Justice when he is absent or disqualified A majority of the court shall constitute a quorum
Paragraph II Court to Designate Judges to Preside When Means for Supreme Court to Prevent Delay in Congested Dockets When one or more of the justices of the Supreme Court are disqualified from deciding any case by interest or otherwise the qualified Justices shall designate a judge or judges of the Superior Court to preside in said case provided that if all the justices are disqualified they or a majority of them shall despite their disqualifications select seven judges of the
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superior court to preside in the cause but they shall make such selections by lot and in open court from not less than twelve names of such superior court judges
Paragraph III Terms of Office The Justices aforesaid shall hold their offices for six years and until their successors are qualified They shall be elected by the people at the same time and in the same manner as members of the General Assembly provided that the successors to the two incumbents whose terms will expire on December 31 1946 shall be elected for the succeeding terms at the time of electing members of the General Assembly during that year successors to the two incumbents whose terms will expire on December 31 1948 shall be elected in like manner during that year successors to the two incumbents whose terms will expire on December 31 1950 shall be elected in like manner during that year and provided further that an additional or seventh Justice shall be immediately appointed by the Governor his tenure under such appointment to expire on December 31 1946 and his successor for the ensuing regular term of six years to be elected at the time and in the manner aforesaid at such general election to be held during that year and all terms except unexpired terms shall be for six years In case of any vacancy which causes an unexpired term the same shall be filled by executive appointment and the person appointed by the Governor shall hold his office until the next regular election and until his successor for the balance of the unexpired term shall have been elected and qualified The returns of such elections shall be made to the Secretary of State who shall certify the result to the Governor and commission shall issue accordingly
Paragraph IV Jurisdiction of Supreme Court The Supreme Court shall have no original jurisdiction but shall be a court alone for the trial and correction of errors of law from the superior courts and the city courts of Atlanta and Savannah as existed on August 16 1916 and such other like courts as have been or may hereafter be established in other cities in all cases that involve the construction of the Constitution of
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the State of Georgia or of the United States or of treaties between the United States and foreign governments in all cases in which the constitutionality of any law of the State of Georgia or of the United States is drawn in question and until otherwise provided by law in all cases respecting title to land in all equity cases in all cases which involve the validity of or the construction of wills in all cases of conviction of a capital felony in all habeas corpus cases in all cases involving extraordinary remedies in all divorce and alimony cases and in all cases certified to it by the Court of Appeals for its determination It shall also be competent for the Supreme Court to require by certiorari or otherwise any case to be certified to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeals for review and determination with the same power and authority as if the case had been carried by writ of error to the Supreme Court Any case carried to the Supreme Court or to the Court of Appeals which belongs to the class of which the other court has jurisdiction shall until otherwise provided by law be transferred to the other court under such rules as the Supreme Court may prescribe and the cases so transferred shall be heard and determined by the court which has jurisdiction thereof The General Assembly may provide for carrying cases or certain classes of cases to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals from the trial courts otherwise than by writ of error and may prescribe conditions as to the right of a party litigant to have his case reviewed by the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals The Supreme Court shall also have jurisdiction of and shall decide cases transferred to it by the Court of Appeals because of an equal division between the judges of that Court when sitting as a body for the determination of cases
Paragraph V Cases how disposed of The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals shall dispose of every case at the term for which it is entered on the courts docket for hearing as provided by Paragraph VIII of this Article and Section or at the next term If the plaintiff in error shall not be prepared to prosecute the case at the term for which it is so entered for hearing unless prevented by providential cause it shall be
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stricken from the docket and the judgment below shall stand affirmed No writ of error shall be dismissed because of delay in transmission of the bill of exceptions and the copy of the record or either of them resulting from the default of the clerk or other cause unless it shall appear that the plaintiff in error or his counsel caused such delay Nothing herein shall be construed to excuse the clerk for any ommission of duty or to relieve him of any liability resulting therefrom
Paragraph VI Judgments may be withheld In any case the Court may in its discretion withhold its judgment until the next term after the same is argued
Paragraph VIL The Supreme Court how cases to be heard and determined The Supreme Court shall have power to hear and determine cases when sitting in a body under such regulations as may be prescribed by it
Paragraph VIII Court of Appeals The Court of Appeals shall consist of the Judges provided therefor by law at the time of the ratification of this amendment and of such additional Judges as the General Assembly shall from time to time prescribe All terms of the Judges of the Court of Appeals after the expiration of the terms of the Judges provided for by law at the time of the ratification of this amendment except unexpired terms shall continue six years and until their successors are qualified The times and manner of electing Judges and the mode of filling a vacancy which causes an unexpired term shall be the same as are or may be provided for by the laws relating to the election and appointment of Justices of the Supreme Court The Court of Appeals shall have jurisdiction for the trial and correction of errors of law from the superior courts and from the City Courts of Atlanta and Savannah as they existed on August 19 1916 and such other like courts as have been or may hereafter be established in other cities in all cases in which such jurisdiction has not been conferred by this Constitution upon the Supreme Court and in such other cases as may hereafter be prescribed by law except that where a case
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is pending in the Court of Appeals and the Court of Appeals desires instruction from the Supreme Court it may certify the same to the Supreme Court and thereupon a transcript of the record shall be transmitted to the Supreme Court which after having afforded to the parties an opportunity to be heard thereon shall instruct the Court of Appeals on the question so certified and the Court of Appeals shall be bound by the instruction so given But if by reason of equal division of opinion among the Justices of the Supreme Court no such instruction is given the Court of Appeals may decide the question The manner of certifying questions to the Supreme Court by the Court of Appeals and the subsequent proceedings in regard to the same in the Supreme Court shall be as the Supreme Court shall by its rules prescribe until otherwise provided by law No affirmance of the judgment of the court below in cases pending in the Court of Appeals shall result from delay in disposing of questions or cases certified from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court or as to which such certificate has been required by the Supreme Court as hereinbefore provided All writs of error in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals when received by its clerk during a term of the Court and before the docket of the term is by order of the Court closed shall be entered thereon and when received at any other time shall be entered on the docket of the next term and they shall stand for hearing at the term for which they are so entered under such rules as the Court may prescribe until otherwise provided by law the Court of Appeals shall appoint a clerk and a sheriff of the court The reporter of the Supreme Court shall be reporter of the Court of Appeals until otherwise provided by law The laws relating to the Supreme Court as to qualification and salaries of Judges the designation of other Judges to preside when members of the Court are disqualified the powers duties salaries fees and terms of officers the mode of carrying cases to the Court the powers practice procedure times of sitting and costs of the Court the publication of reports of cases decided therein and in all other respects except as otherwise provided in this Constitution or by the laws as to the Court of Appeals at the time of the ratifi
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cation of this amendment and until otherwise provided by law shall apply to the Court of Appeals so far as they can be made to apply The decisions of the Supreme Court shall bind the Court of Appeals as precedents The Court of Appeals shall have power to hear and determine cases when sitting in a body except as may be otherwise provided by the General Assembly
In the event of an equal division of judges on any case when the Court is sitting as a body the case shall be immediately transferred to the Supreme Court
Paragraph IX The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals shall have jurisdiction to review by direct writ of error and without the necessity of a motion for new trial having been made all final judgments orders decrees and adjudications rendered by any juvenile court created or referred to in an Act of the General Assembly approved February 19 1951 Ga Laws 1951 p 291 as amended and any other juvenile court that may be hereafter established and it shall further be the duty of the Solicitor General of the judicial circuit within which juvenile court or courts are located to represent the juvenile court on such appeals The time for filing such bill of exceptions and the procedure governing same shall be as now provided by law for appeals or as may hereafter be provided by law but in any case the Juvenile Judge may by order grant extensions of time for the filing of such bill of exceptions so as to afford opportunity for preparation of a brief or transcript of evidence in cases where such is required
Section III
Superior Courts
Paragraph I Terms etc of Superior Court Judges There shall be a judge of the Superior Courts for each judicial circuit whose term of office shall be for four years and until his successor is qualified He may act in other circuits when
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authorized by law The legislature shall have authority to add one or more additional judges of the superior court for any judicial circuit in this State and shall have authority to regulate the manner in which the judges of such circuits shall dispose of the business thereof and shall fix the time at which the term or terms of office of such additional judge or judges shall begin and the manner of his appointment or election and shall have authority from time to time to add to the number of such judges in any judicial circuit or to reduce the number of judges in any judicial circuit provided that at all times there shall be at least one judge in every judicial circuit of this State
Notwithstanding the provision of this Section providing for a term of four years for Judges of the Superior Courts and notwithstanding any other provision of the Constitution of Georgia the term of office of each of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit who is elected at the General Election of 1956 shall be for eight years from January 1 1957 and until his successor is qualified and the term of each of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit elected in subsequent years shall be eight years and until his successor is qualified
Paragraph II Elections when to be held The successors to the present and subsequent incumbents shall be elected by the electors of the whole State entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly at the general election held for such members next preceding the expiration of their respective terms
Paragraph III Terms begin when The terms of the judges to be elected under the Constitution except to fill vacancies shall begin on the first day of January after their elections Every vacancy occasioned by death resignation or other causes shall be filled by appointments of the Governor until the first day of January after the general election held next after the expiration of thirty days from time such vacancy occurs at which election a successor for the unexpired term shall be elected
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Section IV
Paragraph I Exclusive jurisdiction The Superior Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in cases of divorce in criminal cases where the offender is subjected to loss of life or confinement in the penitentiary in cases respecting titles to land and equity cases
Paragraph II Equity may be merged in common law courts The General Assembly may confer upon the Courts of common law all the powers heretofore exercised by Courts of equity in this State
Paragraph III General jurisdiction Said Courts shall have jurisdiction in all civil cases except as hereinafter provided
Paragraph IV Appellate jurisdiction They shall have appellate jurisdiction in all such cases as may be provided by law
Paragraph V Certiorari mandamus etc They shall have power to correct errors in inferior judicatories by writ of certiorari which shall only issue on the sanction of the Judge and said Courts and the judges thereof shall have power to issue writs of mandamus prohibition scire facias and all other writs that may be necessary for carrying their powers fully into effect and shall have such other powers as are or may be conferred on them by law
Paragraph VI New trials The Superior and City Courts may grant new trials on legal grounds
Paragraph VII Judgment of the court The Court shall render judgment without the verdict of a jury in all civil cases except actions ex delicto where no issuable defense is filed except as otherwise provided in this Constitution and subject to the right of trial by a jury on written demand of either party
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Paragraph VIII Sessions The Superior Courts shall sit in each county not less than twice in each year at such times as have been or may be appointed by law The judges of said Courts may on reasonable notice to the parties at any time m vacation at chambers hear and determine by interlocutory or final judgment any matter or issue where a jury verdict is not required or may be waived
Paragraph IX Presiding judge disqualified The General Assembly may provide by law for the appointment of some proper person to preside in cases where the presiding judge is from any cause disqualified
Section V
Paragraph I Judges of superior and city courts may alternate when In any county within which there is or hereafter may be a city Court the Judge of said Court and of the Superior Court may preside in the Courts of each other in cases where the judge of either Court is disqualified to preside
Section VI
Paragraph I Appeals from Ordinary The powers of a Court of Ordinary and of Probate shall be vested in an Ordinary for each county from whose decision there may be an appeal or by consent of parties without a decision to the Superior Court under regulations prescribed by law
Paragraph II Powers The Courts of Ordinary shall have such powers in relation to roads bridges ferries public buildings paupers county officers county funds county taxes and other county matters as may be conferred on them by law
The Court of Ordinary shall have jurisdiction to issue warrants try cases and impose sentences thereon in all misdemeanor cases arising under the Act known as the Georgia
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State Highway Patrol Act of 1937 and other traffic laws and in all cases arising under the Compulsory School Attendance law in all counties of this State in which there is no city or county court provided the defendant waives a jury trial Like jurisdiction is also conferred upon the judges of the police courts of incorporated cities and municipal court judges for offense arising under the Act known as the Georgia State Highway Patrol Act of 1937 and other traffic laws of the State within their respective jurisdiction
Paragraph III Term of office The Ordinary shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified
Section VII
Justices of the Peace
Paragraph I Number and Term of Office There shall be in each militia district one justice of the peace whose official term except when elected to fill an unexpired term shall be for four years Provided however that the General Assembly may in its discretion abolish justice courts and the office of justice of the peace and of notary public exofficio justice of the peace in any city of this State having a population of over twenty thousand and establish in lieu thereof such court or courts or system of courts as the General Assembly may in its discretion deem necessary conferring upon such new court or courts or system of courts when so established the jurisdiction as to subject matter now exercised by justice courts and by justices of the peace and notaries public exofficio justices of the peace together with such additional jurisdiction either as to amount or subjectmatter as may be provided by law whereof some other court has not exclusive jurisdiction under this Constitution together with such provision as to rules and pro
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cedure in such courts as to new trials and the correction of errors in and by said courts and with such further provision for the correction of errors by the Superior Court or Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court as the General Assembly may from time to time in its discretion provide or authorize Any court so established shall not be subject to the rules of uniformity laid down in Paragraph I of Section IX of Article VI of the Constitution of Georgia Provided however that the General Assembly may in its discretion abolish justice courts the the office of justice of the peace and notary public exofficio justice of the peace in any county in this State having within its borders a city having a population of over twenty thousand and as well in the County of Glynn and establish in lieu thereof such court or courts or system of courts as the General Assembly may in its discretion deem necessary or conferring I upon existing courts by extension of their jurisdiction as to subject matter now exercised by justice courts and by justices of the peace and notaries public exofficio justices of the peace I together with such additional jurisdiction either as to amount or to subjectmatter as may be provided by law whereof some other court has not exclusive jurisdiction under this Constitution together also with such provisions as to rules and procedure in such courts and as to new trials and the correction of errors in and by said courts and with such further provision for the correction of errors by the superior court or the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court as the General Assembly may from time to time in its discretion provide or authorize The civil court of Fulton County shall have jurisdiction in Fulton County and outside the city limits of Atlanta either concurrently with or supplemental to or in lieu of justice courts as may be now or hereafter provided by law Any courtso established shall not be subject to the rules of uniformity laid down in Paragraph I of Section IX of Article VI of the Constitution of Georgia
Paragraph II Jurisdiction Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction in all civil cases arising ex contractu and in cases
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of injury or damage to and conversion of personal property when the principal sum does not exceed two hundred dollars and shall sit monthly at fixed times and places but in all cases there may be an appeal to a jury in said court or an appeal to the Superior Court under such regulations as may be prescribed by law
Paragraph III Elections and commissions Justices of the peace shall be elected by the legal voters in their respective districts and shall be commissioned by the Governor They shall be removable on conviction for malpractice in office
Section VIII
Notaries Public
Paragraph I Appointment number term removal Commissioned notaries public not to exceed one for each militia district may be appointed by the judges of the superior courts in their respective circuits upon recommendation of the grand juries of the several counties They shall be commissioned by the Governor for the term of four years and shall be exofficio justices of the peace and shall be removable on conviction for malpractice in office
Section IX
Uniformity of Courts
Paragraph I Uniformity provided for Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution the jurisdiction powers proceedings and practice of all courts or officers invested with judicial powers except City Courts of the same grade or class so far
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as regulated by law and the force and effect of the process judgment and decree by such courts severally shall be uniform This uniformity must be established by the General Assembly and in case of City Courts may be established by the General Assembly
Section X
Attorney General
Paragraph I Election term of office There shall be an Attorney General of this State who shall be elected by the people at the same time for the same term and in the same manner as the Governor
Paragraph II Duties It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to act as the legal adviser of the Executive Department to represent the State in the Supreme Court in all Capital felonies and in all Civil and Criminal Cases in any Court when required by the Governor and to perform such other services as shall be required of him by law
Section XI
Solicitors General
Paragraph I Number term of office vacancies There shall be a solicitor general for each judicial circuit whose official term except to fill a vacancy shall be four years The successors of present and subsequent incumbents shall be elected by the electors of the whole State qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly at the general election held next pre
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ceding the expiration of their respective terms Every vacancy occasioned by death resignation or other cause shall be filled by appointment of the Governor until the first day of January after the general election held next after the expiration of 30 days from the time such vacancy occurs at which election a successor for the unexpired term shall be elected
Paragraph II Duties It shall be the duty of the Solicitor General to represent the State in all cases in the Superior Courts of his Circuit and in all cases taken up from the Superior Courts of his Circuit to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals and to perform such other services as shall be required of him by law
Section XII
Salaries of Justices Judges and Solicitors General Paragraph I Salaries of Justices Judges and Solicitors General The Justices of the Supreme Court each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the Judges of the Court of Appeals each shall have out of the treasury of the State salaries of 8000 per annum the Judges of the Superior Courts each shall have out of the treasury o the State salaries of 6000 per annum and the Solicitors General shall each have out of the treasury of the State a salary of 25000 per annum with the right of the General Assembly to authorize any county to supplement the salary of aju the Superior Court and Solicitor General of the Judicial Circuit in which such county lies out of county funds provided however where such salary is at the time of the adoption o this Constitution being supplemented out of county funds under existing laws such laws shall remain in force until altered by the General Assembly Provided further that the Board ol County Commissioners of Richmond County or the Ordinary or such other board or person as may from time to time have charge of the fiscal affairs of said county shall without further legislative action continue to supplement from said
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County s treasury the salary of the Judge of Superior Court of the circuit of which the said County of Richmond is a part
wWWiUi7Yf TJhosand 20 Dollars per annum which shall be m addition to the amount received by said judge
out oi the State treasury and such payments are declared to be a part of the court expenses of said County and such payment shall be made to the judge now in office during his present or subsequent terms as well as to his successors with the authority in the General Assembly to increase such salary irom the County treasury as above provided
Paragraph IT Powers to abolish or reinstate fees of Solicitor Genera e General Assembly shall have power at any time by a majority vote of each branch to abolish the fees at present accruing to the office of solicitor general in any particular judicial circuit and m lieu thereof to prescribe a salary for such office without regard to the uniformity of such salaries m the various circuits and shall have the further power to determine what disposition shall be made of the fines forfeitures and fees accruing to the office of solicitor general in any such judicial circuit where the fees are abolished and likewise shall have the further power if it so desires to abolish such salary and reestablish such fees but in either event when so changed the change shall not become effective until the end of the term to which the solicitor general was elected
Section XIII
Qualifications of Justices Judges Etc
Paragraph I Age citizenship practice of law No person shall be Justice of the Supreme Court Court of Appeals Judge of Superior Courts or Attorney General unless at the time ox nis election he shall have attained the age of thirty years
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and shall have been a citizen of the State three years and have practiced law for seven years and no person shall be hereafter elected Solicitor General unless at the time of his election he shall have attained twentyfive years of age shall have been a citizen of the State for three years and shall have practiced law for three years next preceding his election
Paragraph II Chief Justices Emeritus and Justices Emeritus of the Supreme Court Judges Emeritus of the Court of Appeals and Judges Emeritus of the Superior Courts shall te eligible to preside in or over the Supreme Court of Georgia the Court of Appeals of Georgia and the Superior Courts of this State The General Assembly shall prescribe the method or manner in which they may be called upon for temporary service
Section XIV
Venue
Paragraph I Divorce cases Divorce cases shall be brought in the county where the defendant resides if a resident of this state if the defendant be not a resident of this state then in the county in which the plaintiff resides provided that any person who has been a resident of any United States Army Post or military reservation within the State of Georgia for one year next preceding the filing of the petition may bring an action for divorce in any county adjacent to said United States Army Post or military reservation
Paragraph II Land titles Cases respecting titles to land shall be tried in the county where the land lies except where a single tract is divided by a county line in which case the Superior Court of either county shall have jurisdiction
Paragraph III Equity cases Equity cases shall be tried in the county where a defendant resides against whom substantial relief is prayed
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Paragraph IV Suits against joint obligors copartners etc Suits against joint obligors joint promissors copartners or joint trespassers residing in different counties may be tried m either county
Paragraph V Suits against maker endorser etc Suits against the maker and endorser of promissory notes or drawer acceptor and endorser of foreign or inland bills of exchange or like instruments residing in different counties shall be brought m the county where the maker or acceptor resides
Paragraph VI All other cases All other civil cases shall be tried m the county where the defendant resides and all criminal cases shall be tried in the county where the crime was committed except cases in the Superior Courts where the Judge is satisfied that an impartial jury cannot be obtained in such county
Section XV Change of Venue
Paragraph I Power to change venue The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases shall be vested in the
SiPrinriCoUrtsj0Jbe exercised in such manner as has been or shall be provided by law
Section XVI
Jury Trial
i Paragraph I Right of trial by jury The right of trial by jury except where it is otherwise provided in this Constitution shall remain inviolate but the General Assembly may prescribe any number not less than five to constitute a trial or traverse jury except in the Superior Court
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shall provide by law for the selection of the most experienced intelligent and upright men to serve as grand jurors and intelligent and upright men to serve as traverse jurors Nevertheless the grand jurors shall be competent to serve as traverse iurors The General Assembly shall have the power to require jury service of women also under such regulations as the General Assembly may prescribe
Paragraph III Compensation of jurors It shall be the duty of the General Assembly by general laws to prescribe the manner of fixing compensation of jurors in all counties m this State
Section XVII
County Commissioners
Paragraph I Power to create County Commissioners The General Assembly shall have power to provide for the creation of county commissioners in such counties as may require them and to define their duties
Section XVIII
What Courts May Be Abolished
Paragraph I Power to abolish courts All courts not specially mentioned by name in the first section of this Article may be abolished in any county at the discretion of the General Assembly
Paragraph II Supreme Court cost Pauper oath The cost in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals shall not exceed 1500 until otherwise provided by law Plaintiffs m error shall not be required to pay costs in said courts when the usual pauper oath is filed in the court below
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ARTICLE VII
Finance Taxation and Public Debt
Section I
Power of Taxation
Paragraph I Taxation a sovereign right The right of taxation is a sovereign rightinalienable indestructibleis ttie life of the State and rightfully belongs to the people in all Republican governments and neither the General Assembly nor any nor all other departments of the Government establisheel by this Constitution shall ever have the authority to irrevocably give grant limit or restrain this right and all laws grants contracts and all other acts whatsoever by said government or any department thereof to affect any of these purposes shall be and are hereby declared to be null and void for every purpose whatsoever and said right of taxation shall always be under the complete control of and revocable by the otate notwithstanding any gift grant or contract whatsoever by the General Assembly
The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall not be surrendered or suspended by any contract or grant to which the State shall be a party
Paragraph II Taxing power limited
1 The General Assembly shall not by vote resolution or order grant any donation or gratuity in favor of any person corporation or association The General Assembly is authorized to provide by law for the payment of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 25000000 to the first person firm or corporation or combination thereof which puts down and brings in the first commercial oil well in this State Such well must produce at least 100 barrels of oil per day and the determination as to whether such well is producing this amount
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is hereby vested in the Director of the State Department of Mines Mining and Geology Said law shall provide for the distribution of said amount as the General Assembly may by statute provide between the company or individual who drills or causes to be drilled said well the contractor who furnishes the equipment among such workmen and employees actually engaged in the job and to the mineral andor property owner where the well is drilled The General Assembly shall provide for the method of payment by the Governor
2 The General Assembly shall not grant or authorize extra compensation to any public officer agent or contractor after the service has been rendered or the contract entered into
3 The levy of taxes on property for any one year by the General Assembly for all purposes except to provide for repelling invasions suppressing insurrections
State in time of war shall not exceed onefourth mill on each dollar of the value of the property taxable in the State provided however that until some other method permitted by the laws of the United States for the taxation of national banking associations or corporations is enacted by the Genera Assembly for the taxation of the shares of stock of banking corporations and other monied capital coming into competition with such banking corporations such property may be taxed at a rate not exceeding five 5 mills on each dollar of the value thereof
4 No poll tax shall be levied to exceed one dollar annually upon each poll
5 That there is hereby created a board to be known as the State Medical Education Board to consist of five members one of whom shall be the President of Georgia Medical Association one of whom shall be the immediate past President o the Georgia Medical Association and three members to be appointed by the Governor who shall be qualified electors of the State ot Georgia The members of the board shall hold office for a
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term of four years beginning on the first day of April 1 1953 and every four years thereafter the Governor shall appoint three members for a term of four years and shall appoint the President and the immediate Past President of the Georgia Medical Association pursuant to their position and office in those respective capacities Vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Governor for the unexpired term
The members of the Board shall serve without pay but shall be allowed 750 per day expenses and traveling expenses of five cents 5c per mile for attending meetings of the board or in traveling elsewhere in the discharge of their duties requiring their absence from their respective places of abode same to be paid upon the approval of the Chairman or ViceChairman of the board out of any funds made available to said board
The secretary of the board shall be whomsoever is serving as the secretary of the Board of Regents who shall keep the records and minutes of the proceedings of the board and who and whose compensation as secretary of this board shall not exceed the sum of 240000 per annum payable monthly The secretary shall prepare and countersign all checks vouchers and warrants drawn upon the funds of the board and the same shall be signed by the chairman of the board The secretary shall also be the treasurer of the board and shall keep and account for all the funds of the board and shall execute and file with the board a surety bond in the sum of 1000000 payable to the State of Georgia and conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties and that he shall properly account for all funds coming into his hands as such secretary the premium on suchbond to be paid out of the funds of the board He shall devote his full time to the duties of his office
The board may employ clerical assistance as is required and needed
The board shall elect a chairman and also a vicechairman to
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serve in the absence or inability of the chairman The board shall maintain an office at the Medical College of Georgia and shall meet at the said office or elsewhere at least once each quarter at such time as may be fixed by i the board Special meetings shall be held upon call of the chairman Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the board shall keep full complete and permanent minutes and records of all its proceedings and actions
It shall be the duty of the board to receive and pass upon allow or disallow all applications for loans or scholarships made by students who are bona fide citizens and residents of the State of Georgia and who desire to become doctors of medicine and who are acceptable for enrollment in a qualified fouryear medical school The purpose of such loans shall be to enable such applicants to obtain a standard fouryear medical education which will qualify them to become licensed practicing physicians within the State of Georgia It shall be the duty of the board to make a careful and full investigation of the ability character and qualifications of each applicant and determine his fitness to become the recipient of such loan or scholarship and for that purpose the board may propound such examination to each applicant which it deems proper and the said board may prescribe such rules and regulations as it deems necessary and proper to carry out the purpose and intention of this bill The investigation of the applicant shall include an investigation of the ability of the applicant or of the parents of such applicant to pay his own tuition at such a medical school and the board in granting such loans and scholarships shall give preference to qualified applicants who or whose parents are unable to pay the applicants tuition at such a medical school
The said board shall have authority to grant to each applicant deemed by the board to be qualified to receive the same a loan or scholarship for the purpose of acquiring a medical education as herein provided for upon such terms and conditions to be imposed by the board as provided for in this bill
Applicants who are granted loans or scholarships by the board
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shall receive a loan not to exceed 500000 to any one applicant to be paid in annual installments not exceeding 150000 per annum with which to defray his or her tuition and other expenses in any reputable accepted and accredited fouryear medical college or school in the United States or a scholarship in such medical college or school for a term not exceeding four years the cost of such scholarship not to exceed 500000 same to be paid at such time and in such manner as may be determined by the board The loans and scholarships herein provided shall not exceed the sums herein stated but they may be prorated in such manner as to pay to the medical school to which any applicant is admitted such funds as are required by that school and the balance to be paid direct to the applicant all of which shall be under such terms and conditions as may be provided under rules and regulations of the board The said loans or scholarships to be granted to each applicant shall be based upon the condition that the full amount thereof shall be repaid to the State of Georgia in cash in full with 4 interest from the date of each payment by the state on such loan or scholarship same to be payable annually the first annual payment to be due on or before one year from the date the applicant completes his interneship or same may be repaid to the State of Georgia in services to be rendered by the applicant by practicing his profession at some place within the State of Georgia to be approved by the board Onefifth of the loan or scholarship together with interest thereon to be credited to the applicant for each year of practicing his profession in a community of 5000 population or less according to 1950 census and no annual interest on the scholarship loan shall be paid during such practice or service After the third full year of practice or services within this State as herein provided but not before the said applicant shall be privileged entirely at the discretion of the Board heretofore created to pay off the balance of the scholarship loan together with accrued interest thereon and upon such payment shall be relieved from further obligations under his contract for loan or scholarship
Each applicant before being granted a loan or scholarship shall
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enter into a contract with the State of Georgia agreeing to the terms and conditions upon which the loan or scholarship shall be granted to him which said contract shall include such terms and provisions as will carry out the full purpose and intent of this act and the form thereof shall be prepared and approved by the Attorney General of this State and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board countersigned by the Secretary and shall be signed by the applicant For the purposes of this act the disabilities of minority of all applicants granted loans or scholarships hereunder shall be and the same are hereby removed and the said applicants are declared to be of full lawful age for the purpose of entering into the contract hereinabove provided for and such contract so executed by any applicant is hereby declared to be a valid and binding contract the same as though the said applicant were of the full age of 21 years and upward The board is hereby vested with full and complete authority and power to sue in its own name any applicant for any balance due the board on any such contract
It shall be the duty of the board to contact and make inquiry of such of the fouryear medical colleges and schools as herein provided as it deems proper and make such arrangements and enter into such contracts within the limitations as to cost as herein provided for the admission of students granted loans or scholarships by the board such contracts to be approved by the attorney general of this state and the money obligations of such contract as made by the board with any such colleges shall be paid for out of funds to be provided by law for such purposes and all students granted loans or scholarships shall attend a medical school with which the board has entered into a contract or any accredited fouryear medical school or college in which said applicant may obtain admission and which is approved by the Board
The board shall have authority to cancel any contract made between it and any applicant for loans or scholarships upon cause deemed sufficient by the board And the board shall have authority to cancel such contracts which it may lawfully cancel
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made with any of the colleges or schools as herein provided
All payments of funds for loans or scholarships hereunder shall be made by requisition of the board signed by the chairman and the secretary directed to the auditor of public accounts who shall thereupon issue a warrant on the treasury of the State of Georgia for the amount fixed in the requisition and payable to the person designated thereon which said warrant upon presentation shall be paid by the treasurer out of any funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes provided for under this act
All funds made available to the board by act of the Legislature for the purpose of defraying expenses of the board and the salaries of its secretary and employees shall be paid over and received by the treasurer of this board and by him deposited in some solvent bank within the State of Georgia selected by the board and such funds may be drawn and expended by check or warrant signed by the chairman and attested by the secretary
The board shall make a biennial report to the Legislature at each session thereof of its activities loans or scholarships granted names of persons to whom granted and the institution attended by those receiving the same the location of the applicants who have received their education and become licensed physicians and surgeons within this State as a result of the said loans andor scholarships and where they are practicing and shall make a full report of all of its expenditures for salaries and expenses incurred hereunder
It is the purpose and intent of this bill to bring about an adequate supply of doctors of medicine in the more sparsely populated areas of the State of Georgia by increasing the number of medical students from Georgia in the various medical schools and inducing a sufficient number of the graduates from medical schools to return to Georgia and practice their profession thus affording adequate medical care to the people of Georgia
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shall have the authority to grant to qualified students who are citizens and bona fide residents of the State of Georgia and who would not otherwise have available the funds necessary to obtain an education such scholarships as are necessary for them to complete programs of study offered by institutions of the University System of Georgia with the exception of the program leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine The terms and conditions thereof shall be prescribed and regulated by the Board of Regents but shall include the condition that recipients of such scholarships shall upon the completion of their programs of study reside in the State of Georgia and engage in activities for which they were prepared through the scholarships for a period of one year for each 1000 received The General Assembly shall appropriate such funds to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia as it sees fit in order to carry out the purposes of this provision
It shall be the duty of the Board of Regents to receive and pass upon allow or disallow all applications for scholarships to contract increase decrease terminate and otherwise regulate all grants for scholarships and to manage operate and control all funds appropriated for this purpose
State Departments and Agencies of the State Government of Georgia shall have the authority to disburse State funds to match Federal funds in order to provide qualified employees with graduate or post graduate educational scholarships and for use in other Federal Education Programs The terms and conditions thereof shall be prescribed and regulated by the various departments and agencies granting the scholarships but shall include the condition that personnel to whom these scholarships are extended must as a prerequisite thereto agree to work for the department or agency granting the scholarships for at least two years for each year spent in study or refund the money received for said scholarships pro rata Provided further that no additional appropriation shall be made by the General Assembly to finance such scholarships but the
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same shall be financed from the regular appropriations to the various State departments and State agencies It shall be the duty of the various State departments and State agencies to receive and pass upon allow or disallow all applications for scholarships in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by them to contract increase decrease terminate and otherwise regulate all grants for scholarships and to manage operate and control all funds used for this purpose
The State Board of Education shall have the authority to grant to citizens who are interested in becoming teachers and who are bona fide residents of the State of Georgia such scholarships as are necessary for them to complete programs of study in preparation for teaching The terms and conditions thereof shall be prescribed and regulated by the State Board of Education but shall include the condition that recipients of such scholarships shall upon the completion of their programs of study teach in the public schools of Georgia for a period of one year for each 1000 received and include the further provision that any person using any such scholarship shall teach in the public schools of Georgia for at least three years in any event
The General Assembly shall have the authority to appropriate such funds to the State Board of Education as it deems wise and proper to carry out the purposes of this provision
It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to receive and pass upon allow or disallow all applications for scholarships for teachers to contract increase decreaseterminate and otherwise regulate all grants for scholarships and to manage operate and control all funds appropriated for this purpose
Paragraph III Uniformity classification of property AH taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws and for public purposes only All taxation shall be uniform upon the
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same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax Classes of subjects for taxation of property shall consist of tangible property and one or more classes of intangible personal property including money The General Assembly shall have the power to classify property including money for taxation and to adopt different rates and different methods for different classes of such property
Paragraph IV Exemptions from taxation The General Assembly may by law exempt from taxation all public property places of religious worship or burial and all property owned by religious groups used only for residential purposes and from which no income is derived all institutions of purely public charity all intangible personal property owned by or irrevocably held in trust for the exclusive benefit of religious educational and charitable institutions no part of the net profit from the operation of which can inure to the benefit of any private person all buildings erected for and used as a college incorporated academy or other seminary of learning and also all funds or property held or used as endowment by such colleges incorporated academies or seminaries of learning provided the same is not invested in real estate and provided further that said exemptions shall only apply to such colleges incorporated academies or other seminaries of learning as are open to the general public provided further that all endowments to institutions established for white people shall be limited to white people and all endowments to institutions established for colored people shall be limited to colored people the real and personal estate of any public library and that of any other literary association used by or connected with such library all books and philosophical apparatus and all paintings and statuary of any company or association kept in a public hall and not held as merchandise or for purposes of sale or gain provided the property so exempted be not used for the purpose of private or corporate profit and income distributable to shareholders in corporations owning such property or to other owners of such property and any income from such
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property is used exclusively for religious educational and charitable purposes or for either one or more of such purposes and for the purpose of maintaining and operating such institution this exemption shall not apply to real estate or buildings other than those used for the operation of such institution and which is rented leased or otherwise used for the primary purpose of securing an income thereon and also provided that such donations of property shall not be predicated upon an agreement contract or otherwise that the donor or donors shall receive or retain any part of the net or gross income of the property The General Assembly shall further have power to exempt from taxation farm products including baled cotton grown in this State and remaining in the hands of the producer but not longer than for the year next after their production
All personal clothing household and kitchen furniture personal property used and included within the home domestic animals and tools and implements of trade of manual laborers but not including motor vehicles are exempted from all State County Municipal and School District ad valorem taxes in an amount not to exceed 30000 in actual value
The homestead of each resident of Georgia actually occupied by the owner as a residence and homestead and only so long as actually occupied by the owner primarily as such but not to exceed 200000 of its value is hereby exempted from all ad valorem taxation for State county and school purposes except taxes levied by municipalities for school purposes and except to pay interest on and retire bonded indebtedness provided however should the owner of a dwelling house on a farm who is already entitled to homestead exemption participate in the program of rural housing and obtain a new house under contract with the local housing authority he shall be entitled to receive the same homestead exemption as allowed before making such contract The General Assembly may from time to time lower said exemption to not less than 125000 The value of all property in excess of the foregoing exemptions shall remain subject to taxation Said exemptions shall be returned and
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claimed in such manner as prescribed by the General Assembly The exemption herein provided for shall not apply to taxes levied by municipalities
All cooperative nonprofit membership corporations organized under the laws of this State for the purpose of engaging in rural electrification as defined in subsection 1 of Section 3 of the Act approved March 30 1937 providing for their incorporation and all of the real and personal property owned or held by such corporations for such purpose are hereby exempted from all taxation state county municipal school district and political or territorial subdivisions of the State having the authority to levy taxes The exemption herein provided for shall expire December 31 1961
There shall be exempt from all ad valorem intangible taxes in this State the common voting stock of a subsidiary corporation not doing business in this State if at least ninety per cent of such common voting stock is owned by a Georgia corporation with its principal place of business located in this State and was acquired or is held for the purpose of enabling the parent company to carry on some part of its established line of business through such subsidiary
All laws exempting property from taxation other than the property herein enumerated shall be void
The Legislature may exempt from taxation intangible personal property owned by a trust forming a part of a pension profit sharing or stock bonus plan if such trust is exempt from federal income tax under Section 165 a of the Federal Internal Revenue Code Existing laws exempting such property from taxation are hereby ratified
Each disabled veteran as hereinafter defined who is a citizen and resident of Georgia is hereby granted an exemption of 1000000 on his homestead which he owns and which he actually occupies as a residence and homestead such exemption being from all ad valorem taxation for State county municipal and school purposes The value of all property in excess of the above exempted amount shall remain subject to taxation
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The term disabled veteran as used herein means a disabled American veteran of any war or armed conflict in which any branch of the armed forces of the United States engaged whether under United States command or otherwise and who is disabled as a result of such service in the armed forces by paraplegia or permanent paralysis of both legs and lower parts of the body resulting from traumatic injury to the spinal cord or brain or by total blindness or by the amputation of both legs or both arms
Paragraph V Exemptions of certain industries continued Existing exemptions under the amendment to the Constitution providing for the exemption of certain industries from taxation appearing in Acts of the General Assembly of 1923 extra session page 67 ratified November 4 1924 shall continue of force until the expiration of the term for which granted
Section II
Purposes and Method of Taxation
Paragraph I Taxation how and for what purposes exercised The powers of taxation over the whole State shall be exercised by the General Assembly for the following purposes only
1 For the support of the State Government and the public institutions
2 For educational purposes
3 To pay the principal and the interest on the public debt and to provide a sinking fund therefor
4 To suppress insurrections to repel invasion and defend the State in time of war
5 To make provision for the payment of pensions to exConfederate soldiers and to the widows of Confederate soldiers who are unmarried
6 To construct and maintain State buildings and a system of State highways airports and docks
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7 To make provision for the payment of oldage assistance to aged persons in need and for the payment of assistance to the needy blind and to dependent children and other welfare benefits provided that no person shall be entitled to the assistance herein authorized who does not qualify for such provisions in every respect in accordance with enactments of the General Assembly which may be in force and effect prescribing the qualifications for beneficiaries hereunder Provided no indebtedness against the State shall ever be created for the purpose herein stated in excess of the taxes lawfully levied each fiscal year under Acts of the General Assembly authorized hereunder for such purposes
a In order to extend to the employees of the State any department of the State any State institution or political subdivisions of the State and to the dependents and survivors of such employees the basic protection accorded others by the Old Age Survivors Insurance Program embodied under the Social Security Act Act of Congress approved August 14 1935 49 Stat 620 officially cited as the Social Security Act as such Act has been and may from time to time be amended and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act as set forth in SubChapter A of Chapter 9 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code as such Code has been and may from time to time be amended the General Assembly is authorized to enact such legislation as may be necessary to insure the coverage to employees of the State any department of the State any State institution or political subdivisions of the State and the dependents and survivors of such employees under said Social Security Act as the same has been or may be amended and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act as the same has been or may be amended and any provisions of this Constitution notwithstanding the State for and on behalf of itself its departments institutions or political subdivisions is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the Federal Security Administrator or other appropriate official of the United States Government under the provisions of said Social Security Act as the same has been or may hereafter be amended in the manner as provided therein and as provided by
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the General Assembly The Teacher Retirement System of Georgia and the Employees Retirement System of Georgia shall have the powers and duties as provided by law existing at the time of the adoption of this provision of the State Constitution together with such further powers and duties as may be hereafter provided by law
8 To advertise and promote the agricultural industrial historic recreational and natural resources of the State of Georgia
9 For public health purposes
Paragraph II Teacher retirement systemtaxation for The powers of taxation may be exercised by the State through the General Assembly and by counties and municipalities for the purpose of paying pensions and other benefits and costs under a teacher retirement system or systems provided no indebtedness j against the State shall ever be created for the purpose herein stated in excess of the taxes lawfully levied each fiscal year under Acts of the General Assembly authorized hereunder
Paragraph III Revenue to be paid into general fund All money collected from taxes fees and assessments for State purposes as authorized by revenue measures enacted by the General Assembly shall be paid into the General Fund of the State Treasury and shall be appropriated therefrom as required by this Constitution for the purposes set out in this Section and for these purposes only
Paragraph IV Tax returns of public utilities The General Assembly may provide for a different method and time of returns assessments payment and collection of ad valorem taxes of public utilities but not at a greater basis of value or at a higher rate of taxation than other properties
Paragraph V The powers of taxation may be exercised by the State through the General Assembly and the counties and municipalities for the purpose of paying pensions and other benefits and costs under a firemens pension system or systems
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The taxes so levied may be collected by such firemens pension system or systems and disbursed therefrom by authority of the General Assembly for the purposes herein authorized
Section III
State Debt
Paragraph I Purposes for which contracted No debt shall be contracted by or on behalf of the State except to supply such temporary deficit as may exist in the treasury in any year for necessary delay in collecting the taxes of that year to repel invasion suppress insurrection and defend the State in time of war or to pay the existing public debt but the debt created to supply deficiencies in revenue shall not exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars and any loan made for this purpose shall be repaid out of the taxes levied for the year in which the loan is made However said debt may be increased in the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars for the payment of the public school teachers of the State only The principal amount borrowed for payment of teachers shall be repaid each year out of the common school appropriation and the interest paid thereon shall be paid each year out of the general funds of the State
Paragraph II Bonded debt increased when The bonded debt of the State shall never be increased except to repel invasion suppress insurrection or defend the State in time of war
Paragraph III Form of laws to borrow money All laws authorizing the borrowing of money by or on behalf of the State shall specify the purpose for which the money is to be used and the money so obtained shall be used for the purpose specified and for no other
Paragraph IV State aid forbidden The credit of the State shall not be pledged or loaned to any individual company corporation or association and the State shall not become a joint
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owner or stockholder in or with any individual company association or corporation
Paragraph V Assumption of debts forbidden The State shall not assume the debt nor any part thereof of any county municipal corporation or political subdivision of the State unless such debt be contracted to enable the State to repel invasion suppress insurrection or defend itself in time of war Provided however that the amendment to the Constitution proposed by the General Assembly and set forth in the published Acts of the General Assembly of the year 1931 at page 97 which amendment was ratified on November 8 1932 and which amendment provided for the assumption by the State of indebtedness of the several counties of the State as well as that of the Coastal Highway District and the assessments made against the counties of said district for the construction and paving of the public roads or highways including bridges of the State under certain conditions and for the issuance of certificates of indebtedness for such indebtedness so assumed is continued of full force and effect until such indebtedness assumed by the State is paid and such certificates of indebtedness retired
Paragraph VI Profit on public money The receiving directly or indirectly by any officer of State or county or member or officer of the General Assembly of any interest profits or perquisites arising from the use or loan of public funds in his hands or moneys to be raised through his agency for State or county purposes shall be deemed a felony and punishable as may be prescribed by law a part of which punishment shall be a disqualification from holding office
Paragraph VII Certain bonds not to be paid The General Assembly shall have no authority to appropriate money either directly or indirectly to pay whole or any part of the principal or interest of the bonds or other obligations which have been pronounced illegal null and void by the General Assembly and the Constitutional amendments ratified by a vote of the people on the first day of May 1877 nor shall the General
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Assembly have authority to pay any of the obligations created by the State under laws passed during the late war between the States nor any of the bonds notes or obligations made and entered into during the existence of said war the time for the payment of which was fixed after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the United States and the Confederate States nor shall the General Assembly pass any law or the Governor or any other State official enter into any contract or agreement whereby the State shall be made a party to any suit in any court of this State or of the United States instituted to test the validity of any such bonds or obligations
Paragraph VIII Sale of States property to pay bonded debt The proceeds of the sale of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and any other property owned by the State whenever the General Assembly may authorize the sale of the whole or any part thereof shall be applied to the payment of the bonded debt of the State and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever so long as the State has any existing bonded debt provided that the proceeds of the sale of the Western and Atlantic Railroad shall be applied to the payment of the bonds for which said railroad has been mortgaged in preference to all other bonds
Paragraph IX State sinking fund The General Assembly shall raise by taxation each year in addition to the sum required to pay the public expenses such amounts as are necessary to pay the interest on the public debt and the principal of the public debt maturing in such year and to provide a sinking fund to pay off and retire the bonds of the State which have not then matured The amount of such annual levy shall be determined after consideration of the amount then held in the sinking fund The taxes levied for such purposes and the said sinking fund shall be applied to no other purpose whatever The funds in the said sinking fund may be invested in the bonds of the State and also in bonds and securities issued by the Federal Government and subsidiaries of the Federal Government fully guaranteed by that government If the said
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bonds are not available for purchase the funds in the sinking fund may be loaned by the Treasurer of the State with the approval of the Governor upon terms to be fixed by such officials and when amply secured by bonds of the State or Federal Government
Section IV
Taxation by Counties
Paragraph I Taxing power of counties The General Assembly shall not have power to delegate to any county the right to levy a tax for any purpose except
1 To pay the expenses of administration of the county government
2 To pay the principal and interest of any debt of the county and to provide a sinking fund therefor
3 For educational purposes upon property located outside of independent school systems as provided in Article 8 of this Constitution
4 To build and repair the public buildings and bridges
Fa exPenses f courts the maintenance and support of prisoners and to pay sheriffs and coroners and for litigation
6 To build and maintain a system of county roads
7 For public health purposes in said county and for the collection and preservation of records of vital statistics
8 To pay county police
3 To support paupers
10 To pay county agricultural and home demonstration agents
11 To provide for payment of old age assistance to aged
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persons m need and for the payment of assistance to needy blind and to dependent children and other welfare benefits provided that no person shall be entitled to the assistance herein authorized who does not qualify for such assistance in every respect in accordance with enactments of the General Assembly which may be in force and effect prescribing the qualifications beneficiaries hereunder provided no indebtedness or liability against the county shall ever be created for the purpose herein stated in excess of the taxes lawfully levied each fiscal year under acts of the General Assembly authorized hereunder for such purposes
12 To provide for fire protection of forest lands and for the further conservation of natural resources
13 To provide medical or other care and hospitalization for the indigent sick people of the county
14 To acquire improve and maintain airports public parks and public libraries
15 To provide for workmens compensation and retirement or pension funds for officers and employees
16 To provide reasonable reserves for public improvements as may be fixed by law
Paragraph II Districting of counties The General Assembly may district the territory of any county outside the limits of incorporated municipalities for the purpose of providing systems of waterworks sewerage sanitation and fire protection and authorize such counties to levy a tax only upon the taxable property in such district for the purpose of constructing and maintaining such improvement
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Section V
Paragraph I Taxing power and contributions of counties cities and political division restricted The General Assembly shall not authorize any county municipal corporation or political division of this State through taxation contribution or otherwise to become a stockholder in any company corporation or association or to appropriate money for or to loan its credit to any corporation company association institution or individual except for purely charitable purposes This restriction shall not operate to prevent the support of schools by municipal corporations within their respective limits
Section VI
Paragraph I Contracts for use of public facilities a The State state institutions any city town municipality or county of this State may contract for any period not exceeding fifty years with each other or with any public agency public corporation or authority now or hereafter created for the use by such subdivisions or the residents thereof of any facilities or services of the State state institutions any city town municipality county public agency public corporation or authority provided such contracts shall deal with such activities and transactions as such subdivisions are by law authorized to undertake
b Any city town municipality or county of this State is empowered in connection with any contracts authorized by the preceding paragraph to convey to any public agency public corporation or authority now or hereafter created existing facilities operated by such city town municipality or county for the benefit of residents of such subdivisions provided the land buildings and equipment so conveyed shall not be mortgaged or pledged to secure obligations of any such public agency public corporation or authority and provided such facilities are to be maintained and operated by such public
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agency public corporation or authority for the same purposes for which such facilities were operated by such city town municipality or county Nothing in this section shall restrict the pledging of revenues of such facilities by any public agency public corporation or authority
c Any city town municipality or county of this State or any combination of the same may contract with any public agency public corporation or authority for the care maintenance and hospitalization of its indigent sick and may as a part of such contract obligate itself to pay for the cost of acquisition construction modernization or repairs of necessary buildings and facilities by such public agency public corporation or authority and provide for the payment of such services and the cost to such public agency public corporations or authority of acquisition construction modernization or repair of buildings and facilities from revenues realized by such city town municipality or county from any taxes authorized by the Constitution of this State or revenues derived from any other sources
Section VII
Limitation on County and Municipal Debts
Paragraph I Debts of counties and cities The debt hereafter incurred by any county municipal corporation or political division of this State except as in this Constitution provided for shall never exceed seven per centum of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein and no such county municipality or division shall incur any new debt except for a temporary loan or loans to supply casual dficiences of revenue not to exceed onefifth of one per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property therein without the assent of a majority of the qualified voters of the county municipality or other
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political subdivision voting in an election for that purpose to be held as prescribed by law and provided further that all laws charter provisions and ordinances heretofore passed or enacted providing special registration of the voters of counties municipal corporations and other political divisions of this State to pass upon the issuance of bonds by such counties municipal corporations and other political divisions are hereby declared to be null and void and the General Assembly shall hereafter have no power to pass or enact any law providing for such special registration but the validity of any and all bond issues by such counties municipal corporations or other political divisions made prior to January 1 1945 shall not be affected hereby provided that any county or municipality of this State may accept and use funds granted by the Federal Government or any agency thereof to aid in financing the cost of architectural engineering economic investigations studies surveys designs plans working drawings specifications procedures and other action preliminary to the construction of public works and where the funds so used for the purposes specified are to be repaid within a period of ten years
Paragraph II Levy of taxes to pay bonds Any county municipal corporation or political division of this State which shall incur any bonded indebtedness under the provisions of this Constitution shall at or before the time of so doing provide for the assessment and collection of an annual tax sufficient in amount to pay the principal and interest of said debt within thirty years from the date of the incurring of said indebtedness
Paragraph III Additional debt authorized when In addition to the debt authorized in Paragraph I of this section to be created by any county municipal corporation or political subdivision of this State a debt may be incurred by any county municipal corporation or political subdivision of this State in excess of seven per centum of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein upon the following conditions Such
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additional debt whether incurred at one or more times shall not exceed in the aggregate three per centum of the assessed value of all the taxable property in such county municipality or political subdivision such additional debt shall be payable in equal installments within the five years next succeeding the issuance of the evidences of such debt there shall be levied by the governing authorities of such county municipality or political subdivision prior to the issuance of such additional debt a tax upon all of the taxable property within such county municipality or political subdivision collectible annually sufficient to pay in full the principal and interest of such additional debt when as due such tax shall be in addition to and separate from all other taxes levied by such taxing authorities and the collections from such tax shall be kept separate and shall be held used and applied solely for the payment of the principal and interest of such additional indebtedness authority to create such additional indebtedness shall first have been authorized by the General Assembly the creation of such additional indebtedness shall have been first authorized by a vote of the registered voters of such county municipality or political subdivision at an election held for such purpose pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and of the then existing laws for the creation of a debt by counties municipal corporations and political subdivisions of this State all of which provisions including those for calling advertising holding and determining the result of such election and the votes necessary to authorize the creation of an indebtedness are hereby made applicable to an election held for the purpose of authorizing such additional indebtedness
Paragraph IV In addition to the obligations hereinbefore allowed each county municipality political subdivision of the State authorized to levy taxes and county board of education is given the authority to make temporary loans between January 1st and December 31st in each year to pay expenses for such year upon the following conditions The aggregate amount of all such loans of such county municipality political subdi
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vision or county Board of Education outstanding at any one time shall not exceed 75 of the total gross income of such county municipality political subdivision or county Board of Education from taxes collected by such county municipality political subdivision or County Board of Education in the last preceding year Such loans shall be payable on or before December 31st of the calendar year in which such loan is made No loan may be made in any year under the provisions of this paragraph when there is a loan then unpaid which was made m a prior year under the provisions of this paragraph Each such loan shall be first authorized by resolution fixing the terms of such loan adopted by a majority vote of the governing body of such county city political subdivision or county Board of Education at a meeting legally held and such resolution shall appear upon the minutes of such meeting No such county municipality subdivision or county Board of Education shall incur in any one calendar year an aggregate of such temporary loans and other contracts or obligations for current expenses in excess of the total anticipated revenue of such county municipality subdivision or county board of education for such calendar year or issue in one calendar year notes warrants or other evidences of such indebtedness in a total amount in excess of such anticipated revenue for such year
Paragraph W Revenue anticipation obligations Revenue anticipation obligations may be issued by any county municipal corporation or political subdivision of this State to provide funds for the purchase or construction in whole or in part of any revenueproducing facility which such county municipal corporation or political subdivision is authorized by the Act of the General Assembly approved March 31st 1937 known as the The Revenue Certificate Laws of 1937 as amended by the Act approved March 14 1939 to construct and operate or to provide funds to extend repair or improve any such existing facility and to buy construct extend operate and maintain gas or electric generating and distribution systems together with all necessary appurtenances thereof Such revenue anti
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cipation obligations shall be payable as to principal and interest only from revenue produced by revenueproducing facilities of the issuing political subdivision and shall not be deemed debts of or to create debts against the issuing political subdivisions within the meaning of this paragraph or any other of this Constitution This authority shall apply only to revenue anticipation obligations issued to provide funds for the purchase construction extension repair or improvement of such facilities and undertakings as are specifically authorized and enumerated by said Act of 1937 as amended by said Act of 1939 and to buy construct extend operate and maintain gas or electric generating and distribution systems together with all necessary appurtenances thereof provided further any revenue certificates issued to buy construct extend operate and maintain gas or electric generating and distribution systems shall before being undertaken be authorized by a majority of those voting at an election held for the purpose in the county municipal corporation or political subdivision affected and provided further that a majority of the registered voters of such county municipal corporation or political subdivision affected shall vote in said election the election for such to be held in the same manner as is used in issuing bonds of such county municipal corporation or political subdivision and the said elections shall be called and provided for by officers in charge of the fiscal affairs of said county municipal corporation or political subdivision affected and no such issuing political subdivision of the State shall exercise the power of taxation for the purpose of paying the principal or interest of any such revenue anticipation obligations or any part thereof
Provided that after a favorable election has been held as set forth above if municipalities counties or other political subdivisions shall purchase construct or operate such electric or gas utility plants from the proceeds of said revenue certificates and extend their services beyond the limits of the county in which the municipality or political subdivision is located then its services rendered and property located outside said county
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shall be subject to taxation and regulation as are privately owned and operated utilities
Paragraph yi Refunding bonds The General Assembly is hereby authorized to create a commission and to vest such commission with the power to secure all necessary information and to approve or disapprove the issuance of bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonded indebtedness of any county municipality or political subdivision of this State issued prior to the adoption of this Constitution including the authority to approve or disapprove the amount and terms of such refunding bonds together with such other powers as to the General Assembly may seem proper but not in conflict with the provisions of the Constitution Such refunding bonds shall be authorized only where such county municipality or political subdivision has not the funds available to meet the payment of outstanding bonded indebtedness through failure to levy and collect the required taxes or through failure to maintain the required sinking fund for such bonds The General Assembly may approve the issuance of the said refunding bonds under the conditions stated Such refunding bonds shall not together with all other outstanding bonded indebtedness exceed the limits fixed by this Constitution for the maximum amount of bonded indebtedness which may be issued by such county municipality or political subdivision and shall be otherwise governed by all of the terms and provisions of this Constitution No bonds shall be issued under this paragraph to refund any bonds issued after the adoption of this Constitution
Paragraph VII Refunding bonds to reduce bonded indebtedness The General Assembly is further authorized to give to the said Commission the power and authority to approve or disapprove the issuance of bonds to refund any outstanding bonded indebtedness of any county municipality or political subdivision now or hereafter issued for the purpose of reducing the amount payable principal or interest on such bonded indebtedness and upon the conditions that the issuance of such refunding bonds will reduce the amounts payable upon such outstanding bonds principal or interest Such refunding
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bonds shall replace such outstanding bonded indebtedness The said Commission shall have the authority to approve or disapprove the terms of any such proposed refunding bonds The General Assembly may authorize the issuance of such refunding bonds issued for the said purpose when approved by the said Commission and authorized by the governing authority of such county municipality or subdivision without an election by the qualified voters as otherwise required but in all other respects such refunding bonds shall comply with the provisions of this Constitution
Section VIII
Paragraph I Sinking funds for bonds All amounts collected from any source for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of any bonded indebtedness of any county municipality or subdivision and to provide for the retirement of such bonded indebtedness above the amount needed to pay the principal and interest on such bonded indebtedness due in the year of such collection shall be placed in a sinking fund to be held and used to pay off the principal and interest of such bonded indebtedness thereafter maturing
The funds in such sinking fund shall be kept separate and apart from all other moneys of such county municipality or subdivision and shall be used for no purpose othan than that above stated The moneys in such sinking fund may be invested and reinvested by the governing authorities of such county municipality or subdivision or by such other authority as has been created to hold and manage such sinking fund in the bonds of such county municipality or subdivision and in bonds or obligations of the State of Georgia of the counties and cities thereof and of the government of the United States of subsidiary corporations of the Federal Government fully guaranteed by such government and no other Any person or persons violating the above provisions shall be guilty of mal
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Pacfre m office and shall also be guilty of misdemeanor and shall be punished when convicted as prescribed by law for the punishment of misdemeanors until the General Assembly shall make other provisions for the violation of the terms of this paragraph
Section IX
Appropriation Control
Paragraph I Preparation and submission of General Appropriation Bill The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly within fifteen days after its organization a budget message accompanied by a draft of a General Appropriation Bill which shall provide for the appropriation of the funds necessary to operate all the various departments and agencies and to meet the current expenses of the State for the ensuing fiscal year
Paragraph II Continuation of General Appropriation Act Each General Appropriation Act with such amendments as are adopted from time to time shall continue in force and effect for each fiscal year thereafter until repealed or another General Appropriation Act is adopted provided however that each section of the General Appropriation Act in force and effect on the date of the adoption of this Constitution of general application and pertaining to the administration limitation and restriction on the payment of appropriations and each section providing for appropriation of Federal Grants and other continuing appropriations and adjustments on appropriations shall remain in force and effect until specifically and separately repealed by the General Assembly
Paragraph III Other or supplementary appropriations In
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tion Act and amendments thereto the General Assembly may make additional appropriations by Acts which shall be known as supplementary appropriation Acts provided no such supplementary appropriation shall be available unless there is an unappropriated surplus in the State Treasury or the revenue necessary to pay such appropriation shall have been provided by a tax laid for such purpose and collected into the General Fund of the State Treasury Neither House shall pass a Supplementary Appropriation Bill until the General Appropriation Act shall have been finally adopted by both Houses and approved by the Governor
Paragraph IV Appropriations to be for specific sums a The appropriation for each department officer bureau board commission agency or institution for which appropriation is made shall be for a specific sum of money and no appropriation shall allocate to any object the proceeds of any particular tax or fund or a part of percentage thereof
b To defray the cost of all activities incident to providing and maintaining an adequate system of public roads and bridges in this State as authorized by laws enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and for grants to counties for aid in county road construction and maintenance as provided by law authorizing the State treasury to make such grants the General Assembly of Georgia shall in each General Appropriation Act make the aggregate of the fixed appropriations for highway purposes an amount not less than the total Motor Fuel and Motor Vehicle License taxes received by the State Treasury for the immediately preceding fiscal year less the amount of refunds rebates and collection costs authorized by law The expenditure of the appropriations made in conformity with this provision shall be subject to all the rules regulations and restrictions imposed on the expenditure of appropriations by provisions of this State Constitution and other laws enacted by the General Assembly Said funds are hereby allocated to the Highway Department and shall be utilized for highway
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improvement including construction and maintenance In the event of a general war in which the United States of America is involved said funds shall be held to the credit of the State Highway Department until such time as the road building program can be continued and materials obtained for said purpose During any such period of time all the funds which cannot be used for highway purposes shall be invested in bonds of the United States of America or securities the payment of the principal and interest of said securities being guaranteed by the United States of America In the event of invasion of this state by land sea or air said funds may be utilized on the executive order of the Governor for defense purposes
Paragraph V Appropriations void when Any appropriation made in conflict with either of the foregoing provisions shall be void
Section X
Paragraph I Existing amendments continued of force Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Georgia of 1877 in effect at the date of the ratification by the voters of the State of this Constitution shall continue of full force and effect after the ratification of this Constitution where such amendments are of merely local and not general application including the amendments pertaining to the Coastal Highway District of this State There is also continued under this provision in force and effect amendments to the Constitution of 1877 applicable to counties and cities having a population in excess of a number stated in such amendments and amendments applicable to counties having a city wholly or partly therein with a population in excess of or not less than a number stated in such amendment and amendments applicable to cities lying in two counties where such amendments are in force and effect at the time of the ratification of this Constitution Provided the amendment of Paragraph I of Section II of Article XI of the Constitution of 1877 proposed by Georgia
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Laws 1943 page 53 and ratified August 3 1943 authorizing election by the people of the County Board of Education of Spalding County prescribing rules of eligibility of members of the Board providing for election by the Board of the County Superintendent of Schools shall not be continued of force
ARTICLE VIII
Education
Section I
Paragraph I System of common schools free tuition separation of races The provision of an adequate education for the citizens shall be a primary obligation of the State of Georgia the expense of which shall be provided for by taxation Separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored races
Section II
Paragraph I State Board of Education method of appointment There shall be a State Board of Education composed of one member from each Congressional District in the State who shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate The Governor shall not be a member of the State Board of Education The first State Board of Education under this Constitution shall consist of those in office at the time this Constitution is adopted with the terms provided by law Thereafter all succeeding appointments shall be for seven year terms from the expiration of the previous term Vacancies upon said Board caused by expiration of term of office shall be similarly filled by appointment and confirmation
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In case of a vacancy on said Board by death resignation or from any other cause other than the expiration of such member s term of office the Board shall by secret ballot elect his successor who shall hold office until the end of the next session of the General Assembly or if the General Assembly be then m session to the end of that session During such session of the General Assembly the Governor shall appoint the successor member of the Board for the unexpired term and shall submit his name to the Senate for confirmation All members of the Board shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified The members of the State Board of Education shall be citizens of this State who shall have resided in Georgia continuously for at least five years preceding their appointment No person employed in a professional capacity by a private or public education institution or by the State Department of Education shall be eligible for appointment or to serve on said Board No person who is or has been connected with or employed by a school book publishing concern shall be eligible to membership on the Board and if any person shall be so connected or employed after becoming a member of the Board his place shall immediately become vacant The said State Board of Education shall have such powers and duties as provided by law and existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution together with such further powers and duties as may be hereafter provided by law
Section III
Paragraph I State School Superintendent election term etc There shall be a State School Superintendent who shall be the executive officer of the State Board of Education elected at the same time and in the same manner and for the same term as that of the Governor The State School Superintendent shall have such qualifications and shall be paid such compensation as may be fixed by law No member of said Board shall be eligible for election as State School Superintendent during the time for which he shall have been appointed
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Section IV
Paragraph I University System of Georgia Board of Regents There shall be a Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and the government control and management of the University System of Georgia and all of its institutions in said system shall be vested in said Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Said Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia shall consist of one member from each Congressional District in the State and five additional members from the StateatLarge appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate The Governor shall not be a member of the said Board The first Board of Regents under this Constitution shall consist of those in office at the time this Constitution is adopted with the terms provided by law Thereafter all succeeding appointments shall be for seven year terms from the expiration of the previous term Vacancies upon said Board caused by expiration of term of office shall be similarly filled by appointment and confirmation In case of a Vacancy on said Board by death resignation of a member or from any other cause other than the expiration of such members term of office the Board shall by secret ballot elect his successor who shall hold office until the end of the next session of the General Assembly or if the General Assembly be then in session to the end of that session During such session of the General Assembly the Governor shall appoint the successor member of the Board for the unexpired term and shall submit his name to the Senate for confirmation All members of the Board of Regents shall hold office until their successors are appointed The said Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia shall have the powers and duties as provided by law existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution together with such further powers and duties as may be hereafter provided by law
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Section V
Paragraph L County System Board of Education election term etc Authority is granted to Counties to establish and maintain public schools within their limits Each County exclusive of any independent school system now in existence in a County shall compose one school district and shall be confined to the control and management of a County Board of Education The Grand Jury of each County shall select from the citizens of their respective Counties five freeholders who shall constitute the County Board of Education Said member shall be elected for the term of five years except that the first election of Board members under this Constitution shall be for such terms that will provide for the expiration of the term of one member of the County Board of Education each year In case of a vacancy on said Board by death resignation of a member or from any other cause other than the expiration of such members term of office the Board shall by secret ballot elect his successor who shall hold office until the next Grand Jury convenes at which time said Grand Jury shall appoint the successor member of the Board for the unexpired term The members of the County Board of Education of such County shall be selected from that portion of the County not embraced within the territory of an independent school district
The General Assembly shall have authority to make provision for local trustees of each school in a county system and confer authority upon them to make recommendations as to budgets and employment of teachers and other authorized employees
Section VI
Paragraph I County School Superintendent election term etc There shall be a County School Superintendent who shall
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be the executive officer of the County Board of Education He shall be elected by the people and his term of office shall be for four years and run concurrently with other county officers The qualifications and the salary of the County School Superintendent shall be fixed by law
Section VII
Paragraph I Independent systems continued new systems prohibited Authority is hereby granted to municipal corporations to maintain existing independent school systems and support the same as authorized by special or general law and such existing systems may add thereto colleges No independent school system shall hereafter be established
Section VIII
Paragraph I Meetings of Boards of Education All official meetings of County Boards of Education shall be open to the public
Section IX
Paragraph I Contracts for care of pupils County Boards of Education and independent school systems may contract with each other for the education transportation and care of pupils
Section X
Paragraph I Certain systems protected Public schools systems established prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1877 shall not be affected by this Constitution
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Section XI
Paragraph I Grants bequests and donations permitted The State Board of Education and the Regents of the University System of Georgia may accept bequests donations and grants of land or other property for the use of their respective systems of education
Paragraph II Grants bequests and donations to county Boards of Education and independent school systems County Boards of Education and independent school systems may accept bequests donations and grants of land or other property for the use of their respective systems of education
Section XII
Paragraph I Taxation by counties for education The fiscal authority of the several Counties shall levy a tax for the support and maintenance of education not less than five mills nor greater than fifteen mills as recommended by the County Board of Education upon the dollar of all taxable property in the County located outside independent school systems The independent school system of Chatham County and the City of Savannah being coextensive with said County the levy of said tax shall be on all property in said County as recommended by the governing body of said system The fifteen mill limitation provided in this Paragraph may be removed or increased in a county under the procedure set out hereinafter The County Board of Education in order to instigate the procedure must pass a resolution recommending that the limitation be removed and upon presentation of such resolution to the Ordinary it shall be his duty within ten days of the receipt of the resolution to issue the call of an election to determine whether such limitation shall be removed He shall set the election to be held on a date not less than twenty nor more than thirty days from the date of the issuance of the call and shall have the date and
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purpose of the election published in the official organ of the county once a week for two weeks preceding the date of the election If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting in such election vote in favor of such proposal there shall be no limitation in such county and the County Board of Education may recommend any number of mills not less than five for the purposes set out above In lieu of recommending that the limitation be removed entirely the Board may recommend that it be increased and shall specify the amount in the resolution The election provisions for increase shall be the same as for removal and if the proposal is favorably voted upon the Board may recommend up to the specified amount It shall be the duty of the Ordinary to hold the election to canvass the returns and declare the results It shall also be his duty to certify the results to the Secretary of State The expense of the election shall be borne by the county
Section XIII
Paragraph I Grants for education Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution the General Assembly may by law provide for grants of State county or municipal funds to citizens of the State for educational purposes in discharge of all obligation of the State to provide adequate education for its citizens
ARTICLE IX
Homesteads and Exemptions Section I
Paragraph I Amount of homestead and exemptions There is hereby exempt from levy and sale by virtue of any process
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whatever under the laws of this State the property of every head of a family or guardian or trustee of a family of minor children or every aged or infirm person or person having the care and support of dependent females of any age who is not head of a family realty or personalty or both to the value in the aggregate of sixteen hundred dollars and the General Assembly shall have authority to provide the manner of exempting said property the sale alienation and encumbrance thereof and to provide for the waiver of said exemption by the debtor
Paragraph II Homestead and exemption laws continued The laws now of force with respect to homestead and exemptions shall remain in full force until changed by law
ARTICLE X
Militia Section I
Paragraph I Organization of Militia A well regulated militia being essential to the peace and security of the State the General Assembly shall have authority to provide by law how the militia of this State shall be organized officered trained armed and equipped and of whom it shall consist
Paragraph II Volunteers The General Assembly shall have power to authorize the formation of volunteer companies and to provide for their organization into battalions regiments brigades divisions and corps with such restrictions as may be prescribed by law and shall have authority to arm and equip the same
Paragraph III Pay of militia and volunteers The officers and men of the militia and volunteer forces shall not be entitled to receive any pay rations or emoluments when not in active service by authority of the State
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ARTICLE XI
Counties and Municipal Corporations Section I
Paragraph I Counties a corporate body boundaries Each county shall be a body corporate with such powers and limitations as may be prescribed by law All suits by or against a county shall be in the name thereof and the metes and bounds of the several counties shall remain as now prescribed by law unless changed as hereinafter provided
Paragraph II Number limited There shall not be more than one hundred and fiftynine counties in this State
Paragraph III New counties permitted when No new county shall be created except by the consolidation or merger of existing counties
Paragraph IV Consolidation of counties method The General Assembly shall have power with the concurrence of twothirds of the qualified voters of each of the counties to be affected who participate in elections held for that purpose to provide for the consolidation of two or more counties into one or the merger of one or more counties into another or the division of a county and the merger of portions thereof into other counties
Paragraph V Dissolution of counties method Any county may be dissolved and merged with a contiguous county or counties by twothirds of the qualified voters of each of the counties affected who participate in elections held for that purpose
Paragraph VI County governments uniform exceptions Whatever tribunal or officers may be created by the General Assembly for the transaction of county matters shall be uni
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form throughout the State and of the same name jurisdiction and remedies except that the General Assembly may provide for Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in any county may abolish the office of County Treasurer in any county may fix the compensation of County Treasurers and may consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector in the office of Tax Commissioner and may fix his compensation without respect to uniformity
Paragraph VII Consolidation of governments submission to voters The General Assembly may provide by general law optional systems of consolidated county and municipal government providing for the organization and the powers and duties of its officers Such optional systems shall become effective when submitted to the qualified voters of such county and approved by a majority of those voting
Paragraph VIII County lines County lines shall not be changed unless under the operation of a general law for that purpose
Paragraph IX County sites changed method No county site shall be changed or removed except by a twothirds vote of the qualified voters of the county voting at an election held for that purpose and by a majority vote of the General Assembly
Section II
Paragraph I County officers election term removal eligibility The county officers shall be elected by the qualified voters of their respective counties or districts and shall hold their office for four years They shall be removed upon conviction for malpractice in office and no person shall be eligible for any of the offices referred to in this paragraph unless he shall have been a resident of the county for two years and is a qualified voter
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Paragraph II Compensation of county officers County officers may be on a fee basis salary basis or fee basis supplemented by salary in such manner as may be directed by law
ARTICLE XII
The Laws of General Operation in Force in This State Section I
Paragraph I Supreme law The laws of general operation in this State are first As the Supreme law The Constitution of the United States the laws of the United States in pursuance thereof and all treaties made under the authority of the United States
Paragraph II Second in authority Second As next in authority thereto This Constitution
Paragraph III Third in authority Third In subordination to the foregoing All laws now of force in this State not inconsistent with this Constitution shall remain of force until the same are modified or repealed by the General Assembly
Paragraph IV Local and private acts Local and private acts passed for the benefit of counties cities towns corporations and private persons not inconsistent with the Supreme law nor with this Constitution and which have not expired nor been repealed shall have the force of Statute law subject to judicial decision as to their validity when passed and to any limitations imposed by their own terms
Paragraph V Proceedings of courts confirmed All judgments decrees orders and other proceedings of the several courts of this State heretofore made within the limits of their
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several jurisdictions are hereby ratified and affirmed subject only to reversal by motion for a new trial appeal bill of review or other proceedings in conformity with the law of force when they were made
Paragraph VI Existing officers The officers of the Government now existing shall continue in the exercise of their several functions until their successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified But nothing herein is to apply to any officer whose office may be abolished by this Constitution
ARTICLE XIII
Amendments to the Constitution Section I
Paragraph I An amendment to this Constitution may be proposed by a resolution in the Senate or the House of Representatives and if the same shall be agreed to by twothirds of the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly such proposed amendment shall be entered on the journal of each branch with the Ayes and Nays taken thereon Any proposed amendment may be repealed or amended by the same General Assembly if done so at least two months prior to the date of the election at which such proposed amendment is to be submitted
The Governor the Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall meet and determine whether a proposed amendment is general and if not general shall determine what political subdivision or subdivisions are directly affected by such proposed amendment If a proposed amendment is general the Governor shall cause such proposed amendment to be published in full once each week for three consecutive weeks immediately
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preceding the date of the election at which such proposed amendment is submitted in one newspaper of general circulation in each Congressional District of the State If such proposed amendment is not general the Governor shall cause such proposed amendment to be published in full in one newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the directly affected political subdivision or subdivisions are located In the event no such newspaper is located in such county a newspaper in an adjoining county shall be used
Any proposed amendment which is general shall be submitted to the people of the entire State at the next general election at which members of the General Assembly are elected and if ratified by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon such amendment shall become a part of this Constitution A proposed amendment which is not general shall only be submitted to the people of the political subdivision or subdivisions directly affected The votes of the electors in such political subdivision affected shall be counted separately in determining whether such proposed amendment is ratified and it must be ratified by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon in each such political subdivision before it shall become a part of this Constitution The General Assembly in the resolution shall state the language to be used in submitting the proposed amendment
When more than one amendment is submitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately
Paragraph II Convention how called No convention of the people shall be called by the General Assembly to revise amend or change this Constitution unless by the concurrence of twothirds of all members of each house of the General Assembly The representation in said convention shall be based on population as near as practicable This Constitution shall not be re
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vised amended or changed by the Convention until the proposed revision amendment or change has been submitted and ratified by the people in the manner provided for submission and ratification of amendments proposed by the General Assembly
Paragraph III Veto not permitted The Governor shall not have the right to veto any proposal by the General Assembly to amend the Constitution
ARTICLE XIV
Merit System Section I
Paragraph I State Personnel Board A nonsalaried State Personnel Board comprised of three citizens of this State of known interest in the improvement of public administration shall administer a State Merit System under which state personnel shall be selected on a basis of merit fitness and efficiency according to law The members of the State Personnel Board shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice of the Senate The first members shall be appointed for terms of three five and seven years respectively the terms to be designated by the Governor All subsequent appointments shall be for a period of seven years except unexpired terms No State official or employee shall be a member of the State Personnel Board
Paragraph II Retirement System Appropriation The General Assembly is authorized to establish an actuarially sound retirement system for employees under a merit system Adequate appropriations shall be provided for the operation of a merit system and the State Personnel Board
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ARTICLE XV
Home Rule Section L
Paragraph I The General Assembly is authorized to provide by law for the selfgovernment of municipalities and to that end is hereby expressly given the authority to delegate its powers so that matters pertaining to municipalities upon which prior to the ratification of this amendment it was necessary for the General Assembly to act may be dealt with without the necessity of action by the General Assembly Any powers granted as provided herein shall be exercised subject only to statutes of general application pertaining to municipalities
ARTICLE XVI
Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Section I
The General Assembly may provide by law that any city or town or any housing authority now or hereafter established may undertake and carry out slum clearance and redevelopment work including the acquisition and clearance of areas which are predominantly slum or blighted areas the preparation of such areas for reuse and the sale or other disposition of such areas to private enterprise for private uses or to public bodies for public uses Any such work shall constitute a governmental function undertaken for public purposes and the powers of taxation and eminent domain may be exercised and public funds expended in furtherance thereof
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