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UTAH CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God Preamble.
Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we, the people
of Utah, in order to secure and perpetuate the principles of free government,
do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 4. The rights of
conscience shall never be infringed. The State shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; no religious
test shall be required as a qualification for any office of public trust or for
any vote at any election; nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or
juror on account of religious belief or the absence thereof. There shall be no
union of Church and State, nor shall any church dominate the State or interfere
with its functions. No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied
to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or for the support of any ecclesiastical
establishment. No property qualification shall be required of any person to vote,
or hold office, except as provided in this Constitution.
Article
III, ordinance. First: Perfect toleration of religious sentiment
is guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or
property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or
plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Education
Article III, ordinance. Fourth: The Legislature shall
make laws for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools,
which shall be open to all the children of the State and be free from sectarian
control.
Article X, section 1. The Legislature
shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a uniform system of public
schools, which shall be open to all children of the State, and be free from sectarian
control.
Article X, section 12. Neither
religious nor partisan test or qualification shall be required of any person,
as a condition of admission, as teacher or student, into any public educational
institution of the State.
Article X, section 13. Neither
the Legislature nor any county, city, town, school district or other public corporation,
shall make any appropriation to aid in the support of any school, seminary, academy,
college, university or other institution, controlled in whole, or in part, by
any church, sect or denomination whatever.
Finance/Property
Tax Article XII, section 3. The Legislature
shall provide by law a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation on all
property in the State, according to its value in money, and shall prescribe by
general law such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of
all property; so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion
to the value of his, her or its property: Provided, That a deduction of debts
from credits may be authorized: Provided further, That the property of the United
States, of the State, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations
and public libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for either
religious worship or charitable purposes, and places of burial not held or used
for private or corporate benefit, shall be exempt from taxation. . . .
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