No county shall in any manner create any indebtedness exceeding two per cent (2%) of the taxable property therein.
No school district shall in any manner create any indebtedness exceeding ten per cent (10%) on the assessed value of the taxable property therein for the purpose of acquiring land, erection, enlarging and equipping of school buildings.
All limitations herein shall refer to the last preceding general assessment.
This section was amended by a resolution adopted by the 1919, 1953, and 1961 legislatures. The latest amendment was ratified by a vote of the people at the general election held on November 6, 1962.
Sec. 6. Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement. Neither the state nor any county, city, township, town, school district, or any other political subdivision, shall loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, except for necessary support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of the capital stock of any association or corporation, except that funds of public employee retirement systems and the permanent funds of the state of Wyoming may be invested in such stock under conditions the legislature prescribes. The state shall not engage in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the people.
This section was amended by a resolution adopted by the 1984 legislature, ratified by a vote of the people at the general election held on November 6, 1984, and proclaimed in effect on November 14, 1984.
This section was amended again by a resolution adopted by the 1995 legislature, ratified by a vote of the people at the general election held on November 5, 1996, and proclaimed in effect on November 18, 1996.
Sec. 7. Payments of public money. No money shall be paid out of the state treasury except upon appropriation by law and on warrant drawn by the proper officer, and no bills, claims, accounts or demands against the state, or any county or political subdivision, shall be audited, allowed or paid until a full itemized statement in writing, certified to under penalty of perjury, shall be filed with the officer or officers whose duty it may be to audit the same.
This section was amended by a resolution adopted by the 1969 legislature, ratified by a vote of the people at the general election held on November 3, 1970, and proclaimed in effect on December 3, 1970.
Sec. 8. Endorsements required on bonds and other evidences of indebtedness. No bond or evidence of indebtedness of the state shall be valid unless the same shall have endorsed thereon a certificate signed by the auditor and secretary of state that the bond or evidence of debt is
