Nebraska State Constitution Article IV-19

Article IV-19

IV-19.

State institutions; management, control, and government; determination by Legislature.

The general management, control and government of all state charitable, mental, reformatory, and penal institutions shall be vested as determined by the Legislature.

Source

  • Neb. Const. art. V, sec. 19 (1875);
  • Amended 1912, Laws 1911, c. 225, sec. 1, p. 677;
  • Amended 1920, Constitutional Convention, 1919-1920, No. 13;
  • Transferred by Constitutional Convention, 1919-1920, art. IV, sec. 19;
  • Amended 1958, Laws 1957, c. 216, sec. 1, p. 753.

Annotations

The statutes which give the Court of Industrial Relations jurisdiction over public employees are not unconstitutional. American Fed. of S., C. & M. Emp. v. Department of Public Institutions, 195 Neb. 253, 237 N.W.2d 841 (1976).

Under former law, members of the Board of Control were constituted a separate class as to salaries. State ex rel. Day v. Hall, 129 Neb. 699, 262 N.W. 850 (1935); State ex rel. Taylor v. Hall, 129 Neb. 669, 262 N.W. 835 (1935).

Constitutional amendment purporting to exclude schools of deaf and blind from jurisdiction of Board of Control was ineffective for failure to comply with constitutional requirements. State ex rel. Hall v. Cline, 118 Neb. 150, 224 N.W. 6 (1929).