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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
The Legislature shall not pass local, private, or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, but such matters shall be provided for only by general laws, viz.:
(a) Granting divorces;
(b) Changing the names of persons, places, or corporations;
(c) Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases;
(d) Regulating the rate of interest on money;
(e) Concerning the settlement or administration of any estate, or the sale or mortgage of any property, of any infant, or of a person of unsound mind, or of any deceased person;
(f) The removal of the disability of infancy;
(g) Granting to any person, corporation, or association the right to have any ferry, bridge, road, or fish-trap;
(h) Exemption of property from taxation or from levy or sale;
(i) Providing for the adoption or legitimation of children;
(j) Changing the law of descent and distribution;
(k) Exempting any person from jury, road, or other civil duty (and no person shall be exempted therefrom by force of any local or private law);
(l) Laying out, opening, altering, and working roads and highways;
(m) Vacating any road or highway, town plat, street, alley, or public grounds;
(n) Selecting, drawing, summoning, or empaneling grand or petit juries;
(o) Creating, increasing, or decreasing the fees, salary, or emoluments of any public officer;
(p) Providing for the management or support of any private or common school, incorporating the same, or granting such school any privileges;
(q) Relating to stock laws, water-courses, and fences;
(r) Conferring the power to exercise the right of eminent domain, or granting to any person, corporation, or association the right to lay down railroad tracks or street-car tracks in any other manner than that prescribed by general law;
(s) Regulating the practice in courts of justice;
(t) Providing for the creation of districts for the election of justices of the peace and constables; and
(u) Granting any lands under control of the state to any person or corporation.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Mississippi Constitution Art. 4, § 90 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/mississippi-constitution/ms-const-art-4-sect-90/
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