Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Article 15

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Article 15

ARTICLE 15
IMPEACHMENT AND A DDRESS
SECTION .
1. Officers subject to impeachment — Grounds.
2. Impeachment by House — Trial by Senate — Presid-
ing officer.
SECTION.
3. Officers removable by Governor upon address.
§ 1. Officers subject to impeachment — Grounds.
The Governor and all State officers, Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, Chancellors
and Prosecuting Attorneys, shall be liable to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors,
and gross misconduct in office; but the judgment shall go no further than removal from office and
disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this State. An impeachment,
whether successful or not, shall be no bar to an indictment.
Publisher’s Notes. Amendment 80 to the Arkansas
Constitution, effective July 1, 2001, established circuit
courts as the trial courts of original jurisdiction of all
justiciable matters not otherwise assigned pursuant to the
Constitution and specifically provided that “jurisdiction
conferred on Circuit Courts established by this Amend-
ment includes all matter previously cognizable by Circuit,
Chancery, Probate and Juvenile Courts…”.
§ 2. Impeachment by House — Trial by Senate — Presiding officer.
The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. All impeachments
shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or
affirmation; no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
thereof. The Chief Justice shall preside, unless he is impeached or otherwise disqualified, when
the Senate shall select a presiding officer.
§ 3. Officers removable by Governor upon address.
The governor, upon the joint address of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House of
the General Assembly, for good cause, may remove the Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary of State,
Attorney-General, Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, Chancellors and Prosecuting
Attorneys.
Publisher’s Notes. Amendment 80 to the Arkansas
Constitution, effective July 1, 2001, established circuit
courts as the trial courts of original jurisdiction of all
justiciable matters not otherwise assigned pursuant to the
Constitution and specifically provided that “jurisdiction
conferred on Circuit Courts established by this Amend-
ment includes all matter previously cognizable by Circuit,
Chancery, Probate and Juvenile Courts…”.