Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 56: Difference between revisions

What constitutes a special law or a local law, like much of the jurisprudence regarding this legislative restriction, is often unclear. Cf. Restrictions Upon Local and Special Legislation in State Constitutions Charles Chauncey Binney Kay & Brother 1894 at 25-26 ("(1) A general law is one which applies to and operates uniformly upon all members of any class of persons, places or things, requiring legislation peculiar to itself in the matter covered by the law. (2) A special law is one which relates either to particular persons, places or things, or to persons, places or things which, though not particularized, are separated, by any method of selection, from the whole class to which the law might, but for such limitation, be applicable. (3) A local law is one whose operation is confined within territorial limits other than those of the whole State or any properly constituted class of localities therein.").