Article XVI, Idaho Constitution

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Article XVI of the Idaho Constitution is entitled Livestock. It has a single section.

Section 1

Text of Section 1: Laws to Protect Livestock The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to provide for the protection of livestock against the introduction or spread of pleuro pneumonia, glanders, splenetic or Texas fever, and other infectious or contagious diseases. The legislature may also establish a system of quarantine or inspection and such other regulations as may be necessary for the protection of stock owners and most conducive to the stock interests within this state.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Idaho State Legislature, "Idaho Constitution
• University of Idaho, "Idaho Constitutional Revision Commission"
• University of Idaho, "Idaho Constitution"
• The Spokeman-Review, "Idaho Constitution"
• Idaho Secretary of State, "Idaho Constitutional Amendment History"
• History.com, "Jul 3, 1890: Idaho Becomes 43rd State"
• Idaho Historical Timeline

Additional reading

• Colson, Dennis C. (1991). Idaho's Constitution: The Tie That Binds, Boise, Idaho: Caxton Press
• Crowley, Donald, and Florence Heffron (2011). The Idaho State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Talkington, H.L. (1911). Political History, State Constitution and School Laws of Idaho
• Visit Idaho.org, "Idaho History"