Constitution of the State of Maine
Description:
Current through October 14, 2022
Preamble
Article I. Declaration of Rights
- § 1. Natural rights
- § 2. Power inherent in people
- § 3. Religious freedom; sects equal; religious tests prohibited; religious teachers
- § 4. Freedom of speech and publication; libel; truth given in evidence; jury determines law and fact
- § 5. Unreasonable searches prohibited
- § 6. Rights of persons accused
- § 6-A. Discrimination against persons prohibited
- § 7. No person to answer to certain crimes but on indictment; exceptions; juries
- § 8. No double jeopardy
- § 9. Sanguinary laws, excessive bail, cruel or unusual punishments prohibited
- § 10. Bailable offenses; habeas corpus
- § 11. Attainder, ex post facto and contract-impairment laws prohibited
- § 12. Treason; testimony of 2 witnesses
- § 13. Suspension of laws
- § 14. Corporal punishment under military law
- § 15. Right of petition
- § 16. To keep and bear arms
- § 17. Standing armies
- § 18. Quartering of soldiers on citizens
- § 19. Right of redress for injuries
- § 20. Trial by jury
- § 21. Private property, when to be taken
- § 22. Taxes
- § 23. Title of nobility prohibited; tenure of offices
- § 24. Other rights not impaired
Article III. Distribution of Powers
Article VI. Judicial Power
Article VIII
Article IX. General Provisions
- § 1. Oaths and subscriptions
- § 2. Offices incompatible with each other; election to Congress disqualifies
- § 3. Commissions
- § 4. Elections on the first Wednesday after first Tuesday of January may be adjourned from day to day
- § 5. Removal by impeachment or address
- § 6. Tenure of office
- § 7. Valuation
- § 8. Taxation
- § 9. Power of taxation
- § 10. Tenure of sheriffs
- § 11. Attorney General
- § 12. Voting districts
- § 13. Bribery at elections
- § 14. Authority and procedure for issuance of bonds
- § 14-A. Authority to insure industrial, manufacturing, fishing, and agricultural mortgage loans
- § 14-B. Authority to insure revenue bonds of the Maine School Building Authority
- § 14-C. Authority to insure mortgage loans for Indian housing
- § 14-D. Authority to insure Maine veterans' mortgage loans, and to appropriate moneys and issue bonds for the payment of same
- § 15. Municipal borrowing regulated by Legislature through general law
- § 16. Seat of government
- § 17. Continuity of Government in case of enemy attack
- § 18. Limitation on use of funds of Maine State Retirement System
- § 18-A. Funding of retirement benefits under the Maine State Retirement System
- § 18-B. Payment of unfunded liabilities of the Maine State Retirement System
- § 19. Limitation on expenditure of motor vehicle and motor vehicle fuel revenues
- § 20. Mining Excise Tax Trust Fund
- § 21. State mandates
- § 22. Revenues generated by fisheries and wildlife management
- § 23. State park land
- § 24. Reapportionment
- § 25. Apportionment of county commissioner districts
Article X. Additional Provisions
- § 1. Omitted
- § 2. Omitted
- § 3. Laws now in force continue until repealed
- § 4. Amendments to Constitution
- § 5. Omitted
- § 6. Constitution to be arranged by Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court; Constitution to be enrolled and printed with laws; supreme law of the State
- § 7. Original sections 1, 2, 5, of art. x not to be printed; section 5 in full force