FROM THE CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE II. SECTION 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, no native of China, no idiot, no insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his or her name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age and upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect. [Amendment adopted October 10, 1911.] ARTICLE IV. SEC. 22. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and upon warrants duly drawn thereon by the controller; and no money shall ever be appropriated or drawn from the state treasury for the purpose or benefit of any corporation, association, asylum, hospital, or any other institution not under the exclusive management and control of the state as a state institution, nor shall any grant or donation of property ever be made thereto by the state; provided, that notwithstanding anything contained in this or any other section of this constitution, the legislature shall have the power to grant aid to the institutions conducted for the support and maintenance of minor orphans, or half-orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances such aid to be granted by a uniform rule, and proportioned to the number of inmates of such respective institutions; provided, further, that the state shall have at any time the right to inquire into the management of such institution; provided, further, that whenever any county, or city and county, or city, or town, shall provide for the support of minor orphans, or half-orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances, such county, city and county, city, or town shall be entitled to receive the same pro rata appropriations as may be granted to such institutions under church or other control. SEC. 25. The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: First-Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police judges, and of constables. Second-For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors. Fourth-Providing for changing the venue in civil or criminal actions. Sixth-Changing the names of persons or places. Seventh-Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plots, parks, cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the state. Eighth Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation. Ninth Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and township officers. Tenth-For the assessment or collection of taxes. Eleventh-Providing for conducting elections, or designating the places of voting, except on the organization of new counties. Twelfth-Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities. Thirteenth-Extending the time for the collection of taxes. Fourteenth-Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills, or other instruments. Fifteenth Refunding money paid into the state treasury. Sixteenth-Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any corporation or person to this state, or to any municipal corporation therein. Seventeenth-Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease, or incumber his or her property. Eighteenth-Legalizing, except as against the state, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer. Nineteenth-Granting to any corporation, association, or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege, or immunity. Twentieth-Exempting property from taxation. Twenty-second-Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes. Twenty-third-Regulating the rate of interest on money. Twenty-fourth-Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens. Twenty-fifth-Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges, or roads. Twenty-seventh-Providing for the management of common schools. Twenty-eighth-Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, cities and counties, township, election or school districts. Twenty-ninth-Affecting the fees or salary of any officer. Thirty-first-Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children. Thirty-second-For limitation of civil or criminal actions. Thirty-third-In all other cases where a general law can be made appli cable. ARTICLE XX. SEC. 7. No contract of marriage, if otherwise duly made, shall be invalidated for want of conformity to the requirements of any religious sect. SEC. 8. All property, real and personal, owned by either husband or wife, before marriage, and that acquired by either of them afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be their separate property. SEC. 18. No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession. Minors, who are. § 25. Minors are: CIVIL CODE. PERSONS. 1. Males under twenty-one years of age; 2. Females under eighteen years of age. Periods of minority, how calculated. § 26. The periods specified in the preceding section must be calculated from the first minute of the day on which persons are born to the same minute of the corresponding day completing the period of minority. Adults, who are. 8 27. All other persons are adults. Unborn child. § 29. A child conceived, but not yet born, is to be deemed an existing person, so far as may be necessary for its interests in the event of its subsequent birth. Custody of minors. § 32. The custody of minors and persons of unsound mind is regulated by Part III of this division (i. e. § 55-276). Minors can not give a delegation of power. § 33. A minor can not [1] give a delegation of power, nor under the age of eighteen, [2] make a contract relating to [a] real property, or [b] any interest therein, or [c] relating to any personal property not in his immediate possession or control. [Amended March 30, 1874.] Contracts by minors made; disaffirmance. § 34. A minor may make any other contract than as above specified, in the same manner as an adult, subject only [1] to his power of disaffirmance under the provisions of this title, and subject [2] to the provisions of the titles on [a] marriage, and on [b] master and servant. [Amended March 30, 1874.] When minors may disaffirm. § 35. In all cases other than those specified in sections thirty-six and thirty-seven, the contract of a minor, if made whilst he is under the age of eighteen, may be disaffirmed [1] by the minor himself, either before his majority or within a reasonable time afterwards; or, in case of his death within that period, [2] by his heirs or personal representatives; and if the contract be made by the minor whilst he is over the age of eighteen, NOTE. The Civil Code was enacted as a whole March 21. 1872. Sections which have been enacted or amended since that time are followed by date of enactment or amendment. |