Section 5-1-15 - Election of officers of the senate

The senate shall proceed, by viva voce vote of a majority of the senators present, to elect a secretary, a sergeant-at-arms and a doorkeeper. The votes shall be entered on the journal. In like manner the senate shall proceed to choose a president of the senate pro tempore, who shall preside in the absence of the lieutenant governor.Codes, 1857, ch. 5, art. 3; 1871, § 329; 1880, § 175; 1892, § 2652; 1906, § 3012; Hemingway's 1917, § 5400; 1930, § 5335; 1942, § 3332. 1983, ch. 328, § 1, eff. 3/9/1983.