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" Art. 5 Sec. 2
- Sec. 2. SUPREME COURT; JUSTICES; SECTIONS; ELIGIBILITY;
" ELECTION; VACANCIES. (a) The Supreme Court shall consist of the Chief
Justice and eight Justices, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum, and the
concurrence of five shall be necessary to a decision of a case; provided, that when
the business of the court may require, the court may sit in sections as designated
by the court to hear argument of causes and to consider applications for writs of
error or other preliminary matters.
" (b) No person shall be eligible to serve in the office of Chief Justice or Justice
of the Supreme Court unless the person is licensed to practice law in this state
and is, at the time of election, a citizen of the United States and of this state, and
- has attained the age of thirty-five years, and has been a practicing lawyer, or a
lawyer and judge of a court of record together at least ten years.
(c) Said Justices shall be elected (three of them each two years) by the
5 qualified voters of the state at a general election; shall hold their offices six years;
and shall each receive such compensation as shall be provided by law. (Amended
S Aug. 11, 1891, Aug. 25, 1945, Nov. 4, 1980, and Nov. 6, 2001.) (TEMPORARY
" TRANSITION PROVISION for Sec. 2: See Appendix, Note 3.)
Sec. 3. JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT; WRITS; CLERK.
(a) The Supreme Court shall exercise the judicial power of the state except as
" otherwise provided in this Constitution. Its jurisdiction shall be co-extensive with
the limits of the State and its determinations shall be final except in criminal law
matters. Its appellate jurisdiction shall be final and shall extend to all cases except
in criminal law matters and as otherwise provided in this Constitution or by law.
The Supreme Court and the Justices thereof shall have power to issue writs of
3 habeas corpus, as may be prescribed by law, and under such regulations as may
be prescribed by law, the said courts and the Justices thereof may issue the writs
of mandamus, procedendo, certiorari and such other writs, as may be necessary
to enforce its jurisdiction. The Legislature may confer original jurisdiction on
the Supreme Court to issue writs of quo warranto and mandamus in such cases
as may be specified, except as against the Governor of the State.
(b) The Supreme Court shall also have power, upon affidavit or otherwise
as by the court may be determined, to ascertain such matters of fact as may be
" necessary to the proper exercise of its jurisdiction. (Amended Aug. 11, 1891,
Nov. 4, 1930, Nov. 4, 1980, and Nov. 6, 2001.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION
PROVISION for Sec. 3: See Appendix, Note 3.)
" Sec. 3a. (Repealed Nov. 6, 2001.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION
" PROVISION for Sec. 3a: See Appendix, Note 3.)
Sec. 3-b. APPEAL FROM ORDER GRANTING OR DENYING
INJUNCTION. The Legislature shall have the power to provide by law, for an
appeal direct to the Supreme Court of this State from an order of any trial court
granting or denying an interlocutory or permanent injunction on the grounds of
the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of any statute of this State, or on the
* validity or invalidity of any administrative order issued by any state agency under
any statute of this State. (Added Nov. 5, 1940.)
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