Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-10-16
polls any act, item; section or part Of
any act or measure passed by The
Legislative assembly.

polls any act, item; section or part of
any act or measure passed BY The
Legislative assembly.
/, \ The first power reserved by Speo.
pie is the initiative, and not more than
eight per cent Of the legal voters shall
DO required to propose any measure
by initiative petition, and every such
petition shall include the full text Of
the measure SO proposed, but the same
constitutional amendment shall not
be proposed oftener than once in ten
years. Initiative petitions shall be filed
with the secretary of state not less
than thirty days before any regular
session of the legislative assembly.
He shall transmit the same to the leg
:1slative assembly, as soon as it con-
venes. Such initiative measures shall
take precedence over all other meas
ures in the legislative assembly except
appropriation bills, and shall either
be enacted or rejected without change
or amendment by the Legislative: as
sembly within forty days If such in
itiative measure shall be enacted by
the legislative assembly it shall be
subject to referendum petition or it
may be referred by the legislative as
sembly to the people for approval or
rejection. If it is rejected or no &C
ton is taken upon it by the legislative
assembly within the said forty days,
the secretary of state shall submit>it to
the people for approval or rejection at
the next ensuing regular general cleo
ton. The legislative assembly may
reject any measure so proposed by in
itiative petition and propose differ
ent one to accomplish the same pur-
pose and in any such event both
measures shall be submitted by the
secretary of state to the people for
approval or rejection at the next ensu-
| ing regular election. If con-
| nicting measures submitted to the peo-
pie at the next ensuing election shall
| be approved by majority of the votes
severally cast for and against the
same, the one receiving thte highest
, number of affirmative votes shall
thereby become valid and the other
shall thereby be rejected.
The second power is the referendum,
and it may be ordered Except as to
laws necessary for the immediate
! preservation of the public peace,
, health or safety as to any measure or
any parts, items or sections of any
measure passed by the legislative as
; sembly, either by a petition signed by
five per cent of the legal voters or by
the legislative assembly if a majority
of the members-elect vote therefor.
! When it is necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public peace,
! health or safety that a law shall be-
come effective without delay, such
necessity and the facts creating the
same shall be stated in one section of
in each house two-thirds of all the
vote on a separate roll call in favor
of the said law going into instant op-
GRAFTON for the immediate preservation
! Of the public peace, health or safety
such law shall become operative upon
, approval by the governor.
The fling of referendum petitions
against one or more items, sections or
parts of an act shall not delay the
remainder of that act from becom-
ing operative. Referendum petitions
against measures passed by the legis-
lative assembly shall be filed with the
secretary of state not more than nine
ty days after the final adjournment Of
the session of the legislative assembly
which passed the measure on which
the referendum Is demanded. The
veto power of the governor shall not
extend to measures referred to the peo-
pie. All elections on measures refer
| red to the people of the state shall be
had at biennial regular general cleo
tons, except as provision may be made
by law for special election or cleo
tons. Any constitutional amend
ment or other measure referred to the
people shall take effect when it is ap-
proved by majority of the votes cast
thereon and not otherwise, and shall
be in force from the date of the official
declaration of the vote. The enacting