The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12

eAS SOAAa~ - eiAN POAio3 AhuCpcHoCul VI
the Legislature, and also reserve
power, at their own option, to approve
or reject at the polls any act, item,
section, or part Of an act or measure
passed BY the Legislature.
The first power reserved by the peo-
pie as the initiative and not more than
ten per cent nor in any case more than
Forty Thousand 100000 of the legal
voters shall be required to propose any
measure by initiative petition, and
every such petition, shall include the
full text of the measure so proposed.
Initiative petitions for all but munich
pal legislation shall be filed with the
Secretary of State not less than thirty
800 days before any regular session
of the Legislature; he shall transmit
the same to the Legislature as soon as
it convenes and organizes. Such i'm
itiative measures shall take precedence
over all other measures in the Legis-
lature except appropriation bills, and
shall be either enacted or rejected with
out change or amendment by the Leg
islature within sixty (6O) days. If such
initiative measure shall be enacted by
the Legislature it shall be subject to
referendum petition. or it may be re-
ferred by the Legislature to the people
for approval or rejection. fit is re-
jected or if no action is taken upon it
by the Legislature within said sixty
l60) days, the Secretary of State shall
submit it 10 the people for approval or
rejection at the next ensuing regular
general election. The Legislature
may reject any measure so proposed
by initiative petition and propose a
different one on the same subject, 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 ensuing regular election.
If conflicting measures submitted to
the people at the next ensuing election
shall be approved by majority of the
votes severally cast for and against
the same, the one receiving the highest
number of affirmative votes shall there
by become law as to ali conflicting
provisions. Proposed amendments
to the Constitution shall in all cases be
submitted to the people for approval
or rejection, and not more than fifteen
per cent nor in any case more than
forty thousand of the legal voters shall
be required to propose any amendments
to the Constitution.
The second power is the referendum,
and it may be ordered Except as to
laws necessary for the immediate pre-
servation of the public peace, health
or safety as TO any measure passed
by the Legislature, either by petition
signed by the required percentage Of
the legal voters, or by the Legislature
as other bills are enacted. Not more
than eight (8) per cent nor at any time
more than twenty five thousand i25,OOO)
of the legal voters shall be required to
sign and make valid referendum pc
tition. But if it is necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public
peace, health, or safety that a law
shall become effective without delay,
such necessity and the facts creating
the same shall be stated in one section
of the bill, and if upon aye and no vote
in each house two-thirds of all of
the members elected TO each house
shall vote on a separate roll call in
favor of the said law going into in
slant operation for the Immediate pre-
servation of the public peace, health
or safety, such law shall become oper-
ative upon approval by the Governor.
The style of all bills shall be ''Be it
Enacted by the people of the State of
Idaho and for ordinances ''Be it
ordained by the people of (name of
Municipality This section shall not
be construed to deprive any member of
the Legislature or of city council or
board of trustees of a town or village of
the right to introduce any measure. The
whole number of votes cast for Secretary
of State at the regular election last
preceding the filing of any petition for
the initiative or for the referendum shall
be the basis on which the number of le-
gal voters necessary to sign such pc
tition shall be counted.
Petition and orders for the initiative
and for the referendum shall be filed
with the Secretary of State. or in muni-