township officers.
- For the assessment and collection of taxes.
- Providing for and conducting elections, or designating the place of voting.
- Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities.
- Extending the time for collection of taxes.
- Giving effect to invalid deeds, leases or other instruments.
- Refunding money paid into the state treasury.
- Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any person or corporation in this state, or any municipal corporation therein.
- Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease or incumber his or her property.
- Legalizing as against the state the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer.
- Exempting property from taxation.
- Changing county seats, unless the law authorizing the change shall require that two-thirds (2/3) of the legal votes cast at a general or special election shall designate the place to which the county seat shall be changed; provided, that the power to pass a special law shall cease as long as the legislature shall provide for such change by general law; provided further, that no special law shall be passed for any one county oftener than once in six (6) years.
- Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes.
- Regulating the interest on money.
- Authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens.
- Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges or roads.
- Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures.
- Providing for the management of common schools.
- Creating offices or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, townships, election districts, or school districts, except as in this constitution otherwise provided.
- Changing the law of descent or succession.
- Authorizing the adoption or legitimization of children.
- For limitation of civil or criminal actions.
- Creating any corporation.
- Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.
SECTION 20. GAMBLING PROHIBITED. (1) Gambling is contrary to public policy and is strictly prohibited except for the following:
- A state lottery which is authorized by the state if conducted in conformity with enabling legislation; and
- Pari-mutuel betting if conducted in conformity with enabling legislation; and
- Bingo and raffle games that are operated by qualified charitable organizations in the pursuit of charitable purposes if conducted in conformity with enabling legislation.
(2) No activities permitted by subsection (1) shall employ any form of casino gambling including, but not limited to, blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, bacarrat, keno and slot machines, or employ any electronic or electromechanical imitation or simulation of any form of casino gambling.
(3) The legislature shall provide by law penalties for violation of this section.
(4) Nowithstanding the foregoing, the following are not gambling and are not prohibited by this section:
- Merchant promotional contests and drawings conducted incidentally to bona fide nongaming business operations, if prizes are awarded without consideration being charged to participants; and
- Games that award only additional play.
SECTION 21. SIGNATURE OF BILL AND RESOLUTIONS. All bills or joint resolutions passed shall be signed by the presiding officers of the respective houses.
SECTION 22. WHEN ACTS TAKE EFFECT. No act shall take effect until sixty days from the end of the session at which the same shall have been passed, except in case of emergency, which emergency shall be declared in the preamble or in the body of the law.
SECTION 23. COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS. The legislature shall have no authority to establish the rate of its compensation and expense by law. There is hereby authorized the creation of the citizens committee on legislative compensation, which shall consist of six members, three to be appointed by the governor and three to be appointed by the supreme court, whose terms of office and qualifications shall be as provided by law. Members of the committee
