Delaware Constitution

Adopted by Constitutional Convention June 4, 1897

Became effective June 10, 1897

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Article II. Legislature

Preamble

General Assembly to hold legislative power; composition

Composition of House and Senate; terms of office; districts; election

Additional representative districts

Delegates to Constitutional Convention

Qualifications of members

Time and frequency of sessions

Place of meeting

Vacancies; tenure of office of persons elected to fill

President pro tempore, Speaker and other officers; absence of presiding officers

Each House as judge of elections and qualifications of its members; quorum; adjournments; compelling attendance

Rules; punishment and expulsion of members; scope of powers

Journals; publication; entry of yeas and nays; passage of bills and resolutions

Accessibility to each House and Committees of the Whole

Consent of each House to adjournment

Immunity from arrest and questioning of speeches

Holding dual office or having interest in army or navy contract

Compensation, Expenses and Allowances of Members

Restriction of bills and resolutions to one subject; expression in title; exception

Lotteries and other gambling

Bingo games; organizations authorized to conduct; submission to referendum; districts; regulation; penalties

Lotteries not under State control; organizations to conduct; submission to referendum; districts; regulation; penal

Divorce or alimony

Local or special laws relating to fences, live stock, ditches, school districts, and roads, highways, streets, etc

Disclosure of personal or private interest of legislator in any pending measure

Conviction of crime as ban to public office

Bribery of executive, judicial or legislative officers

Statutes as public laws unless otherwise declared

Settlement of accounts of State Treasurer; ineligibility for legislative office until settlement

Laws permitting zoning ordinances and use of land