The Legislature shall not pass local, private, or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, but such matters shall be provided for only by general laws, viz.:

1. (a) Granting divorces;
2. (b) Changing the names of persons, places, or corporations;
3. (c) Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases;
4. (d) Regulating the rate of interest on money;

5. (e) Concerning the settlement or administration of any estate, or the

   sale or mortgage of any property, of any infant, or of a person of

   unsound mind, or of any deceased person;

6. (f) The removal of the disability of infancy;

7. (g) Granting to any person, corporation, or association the right to have

   any ferry, bridge, road, or fish-trap;

8. (h) Exemption of property from taxation or from levy or sale;
9. (i) Providing for the adoption or legitimation of children;
10. (j) Changing the law of descent and distribution;

11. (k) Exempting any person from jury, road, or other civil duty

    (and no person shall be exempted therefrom by force of any local or

    private law);

    ( l ) Laying out, opening, altering, and working roads and highways;

12. (m) Vacating any road or highway, town plat, street, alley, or public

    grounds;

13. (n) Selecting, drawing, summoning, or empaneling grand or petit juries;

14. (o) Creating, increasing, or decreasing the fees, salary, or emoluments of

    any public officer;

15. (p) Providing for the management or support of any private or common

    school, incorporating the same, or granting such school any

    privileges;

16. (q) Relating to stock laws, water-courses, and fences;

17. (r) Conferring the power to exercise the right of eminent domain, or

    granting to any person, corporation, or association the right to lay

    down railroad tracks or street-car tracks in any other manner than

    that prescribed by general law;

18. (s) Regulating the practice in courts of justice;

19. (t) Providing for the creation of districts for the election of justices of

    the peace and constables; and

20. (u) Granting any lands under control of the state to any person or

    corporation.

SOURCES: 1817 art VI § 7; 1832 art VII § 15; 1869 art IV § 22.