The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-10-20

form. submitted to the electors by
tition, shall become a part of the
constitution. if approved by ma
Jority of the electors voting at
such election, or by four-sevenths
posed amendment; provided. not
less than three-sevenths of the
electors voting at said election
voted for the proposed amendment.
a means in addition to Section l.
Article IA, of the state constitu-
ton, for amending the same.
OBJ STATUTORY INITIATIVE.
When at any time prior to the
the Legislature there shall have
been filed with the secretary Of
state, a petition proposing law,
signed by two per centum of the
of state shall transmit the same
to the legislature not later than
ten G0) days after the commence
ment of the session. If the law
so proposed be not passed by the
It be passed in an amended form.
then upon a further petition or
petitions, each signed by six per
centum of the electors of the state.
within six months after the ad-
journment of the legislature, the
law proposed in the first petition
or one or more amended forms
thereof, shall be submitted to the
cial state wide election, occurring
not less than ninety days after the
filing Of any such further petition
aori o i Ind If elepoTs 11 BY
thereon, provided the vote in favor
of the proposed law be not less
than thirty-three per centum of
the total number of votes cast Mt
come law and go into effect
thirty days after such election, and
shall supersede any amended form
Of such law, which may have been
passed by the legislature. No law
passed by the Initiative petition
and approved by the electors shall
be subject to the veto of the gov
ernor. The authority Of the people
subdivision, shall extend only to
laws authorized by the provisions
OF the constitution.
(c) THE REFERENDUM. - If
within ninety days after the final
adjournment of any session of the
legislature, a referendum petition,
signed by six per centum of the
with the secretary of state against
passed by the legislature at such
session, such law, or such part Of
a law shall be submitted to. the
electors at the, next general or
special statewide election, occur
ring not less than ninety days after
the. fling of said petition. If a
majority of the votes cast thereon
be in the negative, provided such
negative vote be not less than
thirty-three per centum of the to-
tai number of votes east at such
election, such law or such part of
q law shall thereby be repealed.
Provided, that if referendum pc
tition is signed by fifteen per GEN.
tum of the electors of the state,
the law, or part OF a law; against
which such petition is fled shall
endum vote thereon. Provided the
same shall equal 33 per cent of the
votes at such election.
Any law providing for a tax levy
or appropriating money for the
current expenses of the state gov
eminent or state institutions, any
act of the legislature submitting
other question to the electors Of
the state, or any emergency law
necessary for the immediate pres
ervation of the public peace,
health, or safety, shall go into eff
feet Immediately upon it's passage
and approval by the governor, and
such laws, except emergency laws,
shall not be subject to a referen-
dunn vote. All other laws shall go
into effect ninety days after the
bill proposing an emergency law
shall contain a preamble briefly
setting forth the facts constitut-
ing the emergency. A separate
amble of such bill by call of the
yeas and nays, and if the pream-
BILE be adopted by a twO-thirds vote
of all the members of each house,
1T shall be an emergency law.
(d) GENERAL PROVISIONS
All petitions provided for in this
section shall contain a title indi.
the proposed law or constitutional
a law to be referred, and if a
change is proposed in an existing
constitutional provision or statute,
same, it shall state the general
effect of the proposed change and
also the full text of the proposed
law or amendment to the constitu-
ton or Of the law or part Of
tive or referendum petition may be
signed in separate parts but each
part shall conform to the Srovi-
sions herein contai1ed. All petit,
before a person authorized to ad-
minister an oath, and shall be in
such form that a person signing a
petition thereby states under oath,
dence, that he is a qualified. cleo
tor, that he has not previously
signed any part of such petition,
and that he has signed the petition
thereof. To each part of such Pc
tition shall be attached the affi-
davit of the person before whom
the same was signed, which affi.
davit shall contain, a statement Of
the, number of signers thereon.
that each of the signatures at
tached to such part was made in
the presence of the aff1ant, that
to the best Of his knowledge and
belief each signature is the gen.
name it purports to be, that he be-
lieves the persons who have signed
such petition to be electors, that
they signed such petition with
and that each person signed the
same on the date stated opposite
his name. The CIRCULATION of the
petition provided for herein, or
thereof, may be regulated by, law.
and in case the circulation of any
petition is prohibited by law the
percentage of signers required on
any petition provided for in this
section shall be one-half of the
percentage specified in subdivi-
sions a, b and of this section.
The percentage in any case shall
be based upon the total number Of
votes cast for governor at the next
preceding election. All petitions
provided for in this section shall
Contain the signature of not less
than one-half Of the designated
percentage of the electors in not
less than one-fourth of the coun-
ties of the state. In initiating a
law or constitutional amendment,
electors who have signed the first
shall be qualified to sign the Sec
ond petition.