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WISCONSIN CONSTITUTION


   SECTION 14. [Repealed. 1979 AJR-76; 1981]AJR-35; submit: May'82 Spec.Sess.
AJR-1; vote
November 1982]
   Officers, when to enter on duties. SECTION  14.       continue in office
for one year from the first Monday of
[Original form]   The senators first elected in the      January  next; the
 senators first elected  in the
even-numbered senate districts, the governor, lieutenant  odd-numbered senate
districts, and the members of the
governor and other state officers first elected under this  assembly first
elected, shall enter upon their duties
constitution, shall enter upon the duties of their respective  respectively
on the first Monday of June next, and shall
offices on the first Monday of June next, and shall     continue in office
until the first Monday in January next.
    SECTION 15. [Repealed. 1979 AJR-76; 1981 AJR-35; submit: May'82 Spec.Sess.
AJR-1; vote
November 1982]
   Oath of office. SECTION 15. [Originalform] The oath of
office may be administered by any judge or justice of the
peace until the legislature shall otherwise direct.
   Implementing revised structure of judicial branch. SECTION 16. [As affected
November
 1982] (1), (2), (3) and (5) [Repealed]

   (4) [Amended] The terms of office of justices of the supreme court serving
on August 1, 1978,
 shall expire on the July 31 next preceding the first Monday in January on
which such terms would
 otherwise have expired, but such advancement of the date of term expiration
shall not impair any
 retirement rights vested in any such justice if the term had expired on
the first Monday in January.
 [1979 AJR-76; 1981 AJR-35; submit: May'82 Spec.Sess. AJR-1]
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  Implementing revised structure of judicial branch.
SECTION 16. [Created April 1977] (1) The 1975/1977
amendment relating to a revised structure of the judicial
branch shall take effect on August 1 of the year following
the year of ratification by the voters.
   (2) All county courts and the branches thereof in
existence on the effective date of this amendment shall, as
trial courts of general uniform statewide jurisdiction,
continue after such effective date with the same
jurisdiction, powers and duties conferred by law upon
such courts and the branches and judges thereof until the
legislature by law alters or abolishes such county courts
and their jurisdiction, powers and duties.
   (3) Subject to the jurisdiction established in section 14
of article VII, municipal courts and municipal court
judges shall continue after the effective date of this
amendment with the same jurisdiction, powers and duties
as conferred upon such courts and judges as of the


effective date until the legislature acts unucir sctiostzu z
and 14 of article VII to alter or abolish such municipal
courts and their jurisdiction, powers and duties.
   (4) The terms of office of justices of the supreme court
serving on the effective date shall expire on the July 31
next preceding the first Monday in January on which such
terms   would   otherwise  have  expired, but   such
advancement of the date of term expiration shall not
impair any retirement rights vested in any such justice if
the term had expired on the first Monday in January.
   (5) Prior to the effective date of this amendment the
 legislature shall by law establish one or more appeals
 court districts, provide for the election of appeals judges
 in such districts, and determine the jurisdiction of the
 court of appeals under section 21 of article I and section 5
 of article VII as affected by this amendment, so that the
 court of appeals shall become operative on the effective
 date. [1975 AJR-11; 1977 SJR-9]


Note: Attached resolutions and signatures appear at the end of the constitution
as printed in the Revised Statutes of 1849
     and 1858.