Article 4, Section 44. Ineligibility for office of person convicted of certain crimes.
(1) No person shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the Legislature, or to any office of profit or trust, who shall have been convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime; and any person who shall have been convicted of giving or offering, directly, or indirectly, any bribe to procure his election or appointment, and any person who shall give or offer any bribe to procure the election or appointment of any person to office, shall, on conviction thereof, be disqualified from holding any office of profit or trust under the laws of this state.
(2) No person who is convicted after ratification of this amendment in an other state of any offense which is a felony under the laws of this state, and no person who is convicted after ratification of this amendment of any felony in a federal court, shall be eligible to hold any office of profit or trust in this state.
(3) This section shall not disqualiy a person from holding office if he has been pardoned for the offense or if the offense of which the person was convicted was manslaughter, any violation of the United States Internal Revenue Code or any violation of the tax laws of this state unless such offense also involved misuse or abuse of his office or money coming into his hands by virtue of his office.
SOURCES: 1817 art VI §§
4, 5; 1832 art VII § 4; 1869 art IV §§ 17, 18; Laws, 1992,
ch. 591, eff December 8, 1992.