The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-10-22

Section Is. The legislative author
ity of the State of North Dakota shall
be vested in legislative assembly
consisting of a senate and house of,
but the people reserve
to themselves power to propose laws!
and to enact or reject the same at the
polls, independent of the legislative
and also reserve 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 assembly. The first
power reserved by the people is the
initiative, or the power to propose
for enactment into laws, and
at least ten per cent of the legal vot-
ers to be secured in majority of the
counties of this state 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 shall be
filed with the secretary of state not
less than thirty days before any regu-
lar session of the legislative assembly;
he shall transmit the same to the leg
islative assembly as soon as it con-
venes. Such initiative measure shall
take precedence over all other meas
ures in the legislative assembly except
appropriation bills, and shall be either
enacted or rejected without change or
amendment by the legislative assem-
bly, within forty days. If any such ini-
tiative 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 said 40 days, the sec
rotary of state shall submit it to the
people for approval or rejection at the
next ensuing regular general election.
The legislative assembly may reject
| any measure so proposed by initiative
petition and propose a different one to
accomplish the same purpose, 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 a majority Of
the votes severally cast for and
against the same, the one receiving
the highest number of affirmative vot-
es shall thereby become valid, and the
other shall thereby be rejected. The
second power is the referendum, or
the power 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 any
measure or any parts, items or sec.
tons of any measures passed by the
Legislative assembly either by peti-
ton signed by ten per cent of the legal
voters of the state from majority Of
the counties, or by the legislative as
sembly, If majority of the members
elect vote therefor. When it is neces.
sary for the immediate preservation
OF the public peace, health or safety
that a law shall become effective with.
out delay, such necessity and the facts
creating the same shall be stated in
one section Of the bill, and il upon
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 immedi.
ate preservation Of the public peace,
health or safety, such law shall be.
come operative upon approval by the
governor.
The filing of referendum petition
against one or more items, sections or
parts of an act shall not delay the re-
mainder of that act from becoming CD.
erative. Referendum petitions against
measures passed by the legislative as
sembly shall be fled with the secre.
tary of state not more than ninety
days after the hnal 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 PEG.
pie. All elections on measures refer.
red to the people Of the state shall be