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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 56 (view source)
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This important section generally prohibits the enactment of so-called "special" or "local" laws. | This important section generally prohibits the enactment of so-called "special" or "local" laws. In addition, Article XII, Section 1 mandates that "[n]o private corporation shall be created except by general laws." | ||
What constitutes a special law or a local law, like much of the jurisprudence regarding this type of legislative restriction, is sometimes unclear. Cf. Charles Binney, ''Restrictions Upon Local and Special Legislation in State Constitutions'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=lXQ1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false 25-26] (1894) ("(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."). | What constitutes a special law or a local law, like much of the jurisprudence regarding this type of legislative restriction, is sometimes unclear. Cf. Charles Binney, ''Restrictions Upon Local and Special Legislation in State Constitutions'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=lXQ1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false 25-26] (1894) ("(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."). | ||