Article 4, Section 58. Open door policy; disorderly behavior.
The doors of each house, when in session, or in committee of the whole, shall be kept open, except in cases which may require secrecy; and each house may punish, by fine and imprisonment, any person not a member who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, or who shall in any way disturb its deliberations during the session; but such imprisonment shall not extend beyond the final adjournment of that session.
SOURCES: 1817 art III §
20; 1832 art III §§ 20, 21; 1869 art IV § 15.