No law shall be revised or amended, or the provisions thereof
extended by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as
is revised, amended, or extended, shall be re-enacted and
published at length.
Article 3, Section 27 Special and local laws prohibited.
The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of
the following enumerated cases, that is to say: For granting
divorces; laying out, opening, altering or working roads or
highways; vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys or public
grounds; locating or changing county seats; regulating county or
township affairs; incorporation of cities, towns or villages; or
changing or amending the charters of any cities, towns or
villages; regulating the practice in courts of justice;
regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace,
police magistrates or constables; changing the rules of evidence
in any trial or inquiry; providing for changes of venue in civil
or criminal cases; declaring any person of age; for limitation
of civil actions; giving effect to any informal or invalid
deeds; summoning or impaneling grand or petit juries; providing
for the management of common schools; regulating the rate of
interest on money; the opening or conducting of any election or
designating the place of voting; the sale or mortgage of real
estate belonging to minors or others under disability;
chartering or licensing ferries or bridges or toll roads;
chartering banks, insurance companies and loan and trust
companies; remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures;
creating[,] increasing, or decreasing fees, percentages or
allowances of public officers; changing the law of descent;
granting to any corporation, association or individual, the
right to lay down railroad tracks, or any special or exclusive
privilege, immunity or franchise whatever, or amending existing
charter for such purpose; for punishment of crimes; changing the
names of persons or places; for the assessment or collection of
taxes; affecting estates of deceased persons, minors or others
under legal disabilities; extending the time for the collection
of taxes; refunding money paid into the state treasury,
relinquishing or extinguishing, in whole or part, the
indebtedness, liabilities or obligation of any corporation or
person to this state or to any municipal corporation therein;
exempting property from taxation; restoring to citizenship
persons convicted of infamous crimes; authorizing the creation,
extension or impairing of liens; creating offices or prescribing
the powers or duties of officers in counties, cities, townships
or school districts; or authorizing the adoption or legitimation