Article III, Section 42 of the Texas Constitution

This section was repealed August 5, 1969.

Editor Comments

The former section was adopted in 1876 and never amended.

It mandated that the Legislature "pass such laws as may be necessary to carry into effect" the constitution.

Categorized as "deadwood," it and numerous other sections were repealed by the same ballot proposition.

—Attorney Steve Smith

Recent Decisions

None.

Historic Decisions

• Storrie v. Houston City St. Ry. Co., 46 S.W. 796, 798 (Tex. 1898) ("The requirements express the commands of the people to the legislature to pass laws to accomplish certain purposes which the people determined upon as part of the policy of the state; for example, we quote the following sections . . . . These sections, with many others, show that the convention had in mind a number of topics upon which they were not willing to trust the legislature to exercise its own judgment as to whether it should legislate or not, but commanded that in these instances laws shall be passed to accomplish the purposes named.")

Library Resources

• Vernon's Annotated Constitution of the State of Texas (this multi-volume and up-to-date resource is available at all law libraries and many municipal libraries)

• The Texas State Constitution: A Reference Guide (this one-volume resource is available at most law libraries and some municipal libraries)

• The Constitution of the State of Texas: An Annotated and Comparative Analysis (this two-volume resource is available at most law libraries and some municipal libraries)

Online Resources

• Constitution of the State of Texas (1876) (this resource is published and maintained by the University of Texas School of Law)

• Amendments to the Texas Constitution Since 1876 (this resource is published and regularly updated by the Legislative Council)

• Reports Analyzing Proposed Amendments (this resource is published and regularly updated by the Legislative Reference Library)