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Art. 3 Sec. 15
Sec. 15. DISRESPECTFUL OR DISORDERLY CONDUCT;
OBSTRUCTION OF PROCEEDINGS. Each House may punish, by
imprisonment, during its sessions, any person not a member, for disrespectful
or disorderly conduct in its presence, or for obstructing any of its proceedings;
provided, such imprisonment shall not, at any one time, exceed forty-eight
hours.
Sec. 16. OPEN SESSIONS. The sessions of each House shall be open,
except the Senate when in Executive session.
Sec. 17. ADJOURNMENTS. Neither House shall, without the consent
of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that
where the Legislature may be sitting.
Sec. 18. INELIGIBILITY FOR OTHER OFFICES; INTEREST IN
CONTRACTS. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which he
was elected, be eligible to (1) any civil office of profit under this State which shall
have been created, or the emoluments of which may have been increased, during
such term, or (2) any office or place, the appointment to which may be made, in
whole or in part, by either branch of the Legislature; provided, however, the fact
that the term of office of Senators and Representatives does not end precisely on
the last day of December but extends a few days into January of the succeeding
year shall be considered as de minimis, and the ineligibility herein created shall
terminate on the last day in December of the last full calendar year of the term
for which he was elected. No member of either House shall vote for any other
member for any office whatever, which may be filled by a vote of the Legislature,
except in such cases as are in this Constitution provided, nor shall any member
of the Legislature be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with
the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the term
for which he was elected. (Amended Nov. 5, 1968.)
Sec. 19. INELIGIBILITY OF PERSONS HOLDING OTHER OFFICES.
No judge of any court, Secretary of State, Attorney General, clerk of any court of
record, or any person holding a lucrative office under the United States, or this
State, or any foreign government shall during the term for which he is elected or
appointed, be eligible to the Legislature.
Sec. 20. COLLECTORS OF TAXES; PERSONS ENTRUSTED WITH
PUBLIC MONEY; INELIGIBILITY. No person who at any time may have
been a collector of taxes, or who may have been otherwise entrusted with public
money, shall be eligible to the Legislature, or to any office of profit or trust
under the State government, until he shall have obtained a discharge for the
amount of such collections, or for all public moneys with which he may have
been entrusted.
Sec. 21. WORDS SPOKEN IN DEBATE. No member shall be questioned
in any other place for words spoken in debate in either House.
Sec. 22. DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE INTEREST IN MEASURE OR
BILL; NOT TO VOTE. A member who has a personal or private interest in any
measure or bill, proposed, or pending before the Legislature, shall disclose the
fact to the House, of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
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