The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-11

GRITTY Of the state of North Dakota
shall be vested in a legislative as
sembly consisting of a senate and
house of representatives, but the
people reserve to themselves power to
propose laws and to enact or reject
the same at the polls, independent Of
the legislative assembly, and also re-
serve power, at their own option, to
approve or reject at The polls any act,
item, section or part of any act or
measure passed by the legislative as
sembly. The first power. reserved
by the people is the initiative. or the
power to propose measures for enact
ment into laws, and at least 10 per
cent Of the legal voters to be secured
in q majority OF the counties of this
state shall be required to propose
any easur by initiative petition,
and every such petition shall include
the full text of the measure so
proposed. 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 @ame
to the legislative assembly as soon as
it ~convenes. Such initiative measure
shall take precedence over all other
measures in the legislative assembly
NAICPI 1DPA WI ULAO b4lASs ia no DC
either enacted or. rejected without
change or amendment by the legisla-
tive assembly within forty days. If
any such initiative measure shall be
enacted by the legislative assembly it
shall be subject to referendum petit
ton or 1t may be referred by the leg
islative assembly to the people for ap-
prevail or rejection. If 1t is rejected
or no action is taken upon it by the
legislative assembly within said forty
days, the secretary of state shall sub
nit IL to the people for approval or
rejection at the next ensuing regular
general election. The legislative as
sembly may reject any measure so
proposed by initiative petition and
propose q different n to accomplish
the same purpose, and in any such
event both measures shall be submit
tel by the seer etary Of state to the
people for approval or rejection at the
next ensuing regular election. If cou-
ficting measures submitted to the
people at the next ensuing election
shall be approved by a majority of the
voters severally cast for and against
the same the one receiving the highest
number Of affirmative votes shall
thereby become valid and the other
shall thereby be rejected. The second
power is the referendum, or the pow
er to order any act, item, or part of
any act to be referred to the people
for their approval or rejection at the
| polls, and it may be ordered Except as
to laws necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace,
health or safety, as to n measure
or any parts, items or sections Of any
| measures passed by the Legislative as
sembly either by q petition signed by
10 per cent of h legal voters of the
state from a majority of the counties
or by the legislative assembly, If q
majority Of the members elect vote
therefor. When IL 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 Gre
ating the same shall be stated in one
section of the bill, and II pom aye
and no vote in each house tWo-thirds
Of all the members elected to each
house shall vote on a separate roll call
In favor of the said law going into
instant operation for the Immediate
preservation of the public peace
health or safety, such law shall be-
come operative upon approval by the
governor.
The filing of a referendum petition
against one or more items, sections or
parts of an act shall not delay the re-
mainder of that act from becoming
operative. Referendum petitions
against measures passed by the legis-
latiye 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 easur OF which
the, referendum is demanded. Tho
veto power of the governor shall moi
extend TO measures referred TO the
people. All elections on measures re-
ferred to the people Of the state shall
be had at biennial regular elections
except as provision may be made by
law for a special election or elections
Any measure referred to the people
shall take effect when it lis approved
by a majority of the votes east there
on and not otherwise and shall be In
force from the date OF the official dec
iaration of the vote.
The enacting clause of all the in
itiative bills shall be BE it enacted
by the people Of the state of NORTH
Dakota, The section shall not os
construed to deprive any member oi
the legislative assembly OF the right tc
Introduce any measure. The whols
number OF votes cast for secretary oi
state at the regular election last pre-
ceding the fling of any petition FOL
the initiative or for the referendum
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