The Harrison times., 1916-08-19
rh. Initiativ. and Referendum power.

and Referendum as to their local legis-
htion. Petitions shall be iled with the
county or city clerk. Not more than
ten (l0) per cent of the legal voters OF
any county. city, or town may be re-
suired to order the referendum nor
more than fifteen (lS) per cent OF the
legal voters OF any such county, city Nr
town. shall be required 10 propose any
measure by initiative petition.
In counties or municipalities the num-
psr Of signatures required on a petition
phall De computed upon the vote cast for
the office of county judge or mayor at
the last preceding election.
Every extension. enlargement, pur-
chase, grant. or conveyance of fran
chise, or of any rights, property, ease
ment, lease, or occupation of or in any
road. street alley or park, or any part
thereof in any real property. or interest
In any real property owned by a munich
pal corporation, whether the same be by
statute, ordinance, resolution, or other
wise. shall be subject to referendum and
shall not be subject to emergency legis-
lAtion The time for filing a referendum
petition against municipal or local
measures shall not be fixed at less tuan
thirty days Sfter the passage thereof by
municipal or local legislative bodies
The word measure" as used herein,
means any law, bin, resolution, ordi-
nance, charter, or constitutional amend
ment. or any other legislative measure.
In the case of laws chiefly Of local in
terest as the creation Of new or addi-
\ ,ional judges or other officers or Offices.
>referend"m by petition shall be sub
= mite" Or approval or rejection to the
people Jf the district interested
All elections on general local, and
special measures referred to the people,
81 the State or Of any locality shall be
ield at the regular general election, ex-
ept when the Governor. County Judge
ST Mayor shall order a special election.
state, counties, or municipalities may
provide for special elections on local
legislation.
No Limitation shall be placed upon
the number of constitutional amend
nents or other measures which may De
proposed and submitted to the people by
tither Initiative or Referendum petit
lions as provided in this section, nor
shall this section be construed to con-
iict in any particular with Article 49,
section %, of the Constitution prOvid-
ng for the submission of constitutional
amendments by the Legislative Assem-
lly and their adoption by the people.
This section shall not be construed to
. aepriye any member Of the Legislative
Assembly of the right to introduce any
measure, but no measure shall be sub
mitted to the people by the Legislative
Assembly except proposed constitu-
ional amendment, or amendment as pro-
yided for in Article 10, Section % of the
Constitution.
s Any measure submitted to the people
sy petition as herein provided shall tane
,ffect and became law when approved
by a majority Of the votes cast there
IN and not otherwise and shall not be
required to receive a majority OF the
votes cast for candidates in such cleo
lion. Such measure shall be operative
IN and after the thirteth day after the
slection at which it is approved.
The veto power Of the Governor or tne
Mayor shall not extend to measures in
tiated by or referred to the people.
If conflicting measures referred to the
PEOPLE shall be approved by majority
" the votes severally cast for and
against the same, the one receiving the
iigher number of affirmative votes shall
hereby become a law.
No measure approved by a vote or the
people shall be amended or repealed by
,he General Assembly or any City
Council except by yea or nay vote upon
roll call of threefourths of all the MEM
sers elected; nor shall any such meas
are be set aside, in whole or in part, as
unconstitutional except by unanimous
1ecision of all the members of the Su-
preme Court of the State.
Legal voters only shall be counted
apon petitions Petitions may be circu-
ated and presented in parts, but each
part of any petition shall have attached
hereto the affidavit of the person cir
sulating the same, that all the sigma
lures thereon were made in the pres
ence of the affiant and that to the best
sf the afflant's knowledge and belief
zach signature is genuine, and that the
person signing is a legal voter, and no
sther affidavit or verfCation shall be re-
auired to establish the genuineness or
such signatures.
The sufficiency Of all Statewide petit
81 IL, tho Erc in
stance by the Secretary of the state
and Of municipal and local petitions by
he City or County Clerk, subject to re-
view by the Supreme Court of the state
which shall have exclusive and original
Jurisdiction over all such cases
If the suffciency of any, pet'tlen 10
thellenged the question shall be tried at
once Without reference to term, time or
/ vaca tion. and adjudicated without de-
1lay: but the failure Of the courts 10
decide prior to the election, as 10 the
sufflciency of such petition, snail not
prevent the question from peins place9
npon the ballot at the election named
In such petition, nor initiate agalnst
the validity of the measure II II snail
have been approved by vote or the peo-
ole. If the Secretary OF state, county
Clerk, or City Clerk shall declde any pc
tion to be insufficient he snail Wllnou'
delav notify the sponsors or tho pet-
tion and permit at least thirty days
IRON, the date of such notification Tor
correction or amendment In tle event
Of legal proceedings to preVed slVlns
legal effect to any petition upon any
grounds. the burden of PROOF shali oe
upon the person or persons ATTACKING
chs validity Of the petition
No law shall be passed requiring
distrihution of signatures upon peu-
tion. In each of the counties or other
noIitical divisions of the state. nor 10
prohibit anv person or persons from CIV
Ing or receiving compensation lot CIT
culating petitions nor to prohlplt the
circulation of petitions, nor III any way
70 Interfere with the freedom OF tne PEI
ple in securing petitions, but laws may
be enacted prohibiting ana penaIlHins
nnv fraudulent practice such as PEI
fury, forgery, or any other InlsuGInu'''0' si.,a
in the securing or hllng Oh pet',otS n,
the people by petitions uhder b,t.n- tnT p
"a &c 10 now or may hereafter be pro-
vided by law. ,.,.,.,od by the
uoonIe and submitted under the proVls
IONS of this section, shall be, be :
snacted by the people of the state W
Arkansas" (municiellity or county as
The case may be). In submitting neas
ures TO the people, the Secretary " W
stota and all other officials shaii 10
guided by the general laws uhtil a.
Sitianal legislation shall De proNiueN
The result Of the vote upon any
state measure shall be declared py tno
State Roard OF Election Commissiol'e.,n .n .
1on t,a Substitute therefor). and the re-