Section 29. Limitations upon power of General Assembly to enact private or special legislation
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Limitations on local, private, and special legislation
(1) Prohibited subjects. The General Assembly shall not enact any local, private, or special act or resolution:
(a) Relating to health, sanitation, and the abatement of nuisances;
(b) Changing the names of cities, towns, and townships;
(c) Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or discontinuing of highways, streets, or alleys;
(d) Relating to ferries or bridges;
(e) Relating to non-navigable streams;
(f) Relating to cemeteries;
(g) Relating to the pay of jurors;
(h) Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts;
(i) Remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury;
(j) Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufacturing;
(k) Extending the time for the levy or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability;
(l) Giving effect to informal wills and deeds;
(m) Granting a divorce or securing alimony in any individual case;
(n) Altering the name of any person, or legitimating any person not born in lawful wedlock, or restoring to the rights of citizenship any person convicted of a felony.
(2) Repeals. Nor shall the General Assembly enact any such local, private, or special act by the partial repeal of a general law; but the General Assembly may at any time repeal local, private, or special laws enacted by it.
(3) Prohibited acts void. Any local, private, or special act or resolution enacted in violation of the provisions of this Section shall be void.
(4) General laws. The General Assembly may enact general laws regulating the matters set out in this Section.
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Limitations upon power of General Assembly to enact private or special legislation
The General Assembly shall not pass any local, private or special act or resolution:
Relating to health, sanitation and abatement of nuisances:
Changing the names of cities, towns and townships;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or discontinuing highways, streets or alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridges;
Relating to non-navigable streams;
Relating to cemeteries;
Relating to the pay of jurors;
Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury;
Regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing;
Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability;
Giving effect to informal wills and deeds;
Nor shall the General Assembly enact any such local, private or special act by the partial repeal of a general law, but the General Assembly may at any time repeal local, private or special laws enacted by it.
Any local, private or special act or resolution passed in violation of the provisions of this section shall be void.
The General Assembly shall have power to pass general laws regulating matters set out in this section.
Limitations upon power of General Assembly to enact private or special legislation
The General Assembly shall not pass any local, private or special act or resolution:
Relating to the establishment of courts inferior to the superior court;
Relating to the appiontment of justices of the peace
Relating to health, sanitation and abatement of nuisances;
Changing the names of cities, towns and townships;
Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or discontinuing highways, streets or alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridges;
Relating to non-navigable streams;
Relating to cemeteries;
Relating to the pay of jurors;
Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury;
Regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing;
Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability;
Giving effect to informal wills and deeds;
Nor shall the General Assembly enact any such local, private or special act by the partial repeal of a general law, but the General Assembly may at any time repeal local, private or special laws enacted by it.
Any local, private or special act or resolution passed in violation of the provisions of this section shall be void.
The General Assembly shall have power to pass general laws regulating matters set out in this section.