Sharp County record., 1916-08-11
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OF the people are hereby further resorv-
I'd to the legal voters Of each municipal
lty and county as to all local, special
And municipal legislation Of every char
lcter In and for their respective munich
palitiss and counties.
Counties, cities and towns may pro-
vhs for the exercise Of the Initiative
eno Referendum as to their local legis-
lation. Petitions shall be fled with the
county or city clerk. Not more than
ten 1o) per cent Of the legal voters Of
any county, city or town may be re-
quired to order the referendum, nor
more than fifteen (l6) per cent Of tho
legal voters Of any such county, city or
town, shall be required to propose any
measure by initiative petition.
In counties or municipalities the num-
per of signatures required on petition
shall be computed upon the vote cast for
the once OF county judge or mayor at
the last preceding election.
Every extension, enlargement, pur-
chase, grant or conveyance Of a fran
chise, or Of any rights, property, ease
rnent, 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 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 leSis-
lation. The time for filing a referendum
petition against municipal or local
measures shall not be fixed at less tnan
thirty days after the passage thereof by
municipal or local legislative bodies.
The word measure" as used herein,
means any law bill, 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
tional judges, or other officers or ofices,
20 H. L.,-
mitted for approval or rejection to the
people of the district interested.
All elections on general, local, dhd
special measures referred to the people,
Of the State or Of any locality shall be
held at the regular general election, ex-
sept when the Governor County Judge
or Mayor shall order q 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
ments or other measures which may pe
proposed and submitted to the people by
either Initiative or Referendum peti-
tions as provided in this section, nor
shall this section be construed to con-
fict in any particular with Article 10,
Section 22, Of the Constitution provid
Ing for the submission of constitutional
amendments by the Legislative Assem-
bly, and their adoption by the people.
This section shall not be construed to
deprive 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 a proposed constitu-
tional amendment, or amendment as pro-
vided for in Article 10, Section % of the
Constitution.
Any measure submitted to the people
by petition as herein provided shall take
aMeNf and haNap n law uban onnrAUnd
by majority Of the votes cast there
on and not otherwise, and shall not be
required to receive a majority or the
votes cast for candidates in such cleo
ton. Such measure shall be operative
on and after the thirtieth day after the
election at which it is approved.
The veto power Of the Governor or tne
Mayor shall not extend to measures In
ltiated by or referred to the people.
If conflicting measures referred to the
people shall be approved by majority
Of the votes severally cast for and
against the same, the one receiving the
higher number OF affirmative votes shall
thereby become law.
No measure approved by vote Of the
people shall be amended or repealed by
the General Assembly or any City
Council except by a yea or nay vote upon
roll call Of three-fourths Of all the mem
bers elected; nor shall any such meas
lre be set aside, in whole or in part, as
unconstitutional except by a unanimous
aeciston. Of all the members Of the su-
spreme Court Of the State,
Legal voters only shall be counted
upon petitions. Petitions may be circu-
lated and presented In parts, but each
part Of any petition shall have attached
thereto the afYidavit Of the person cir
culating the same that all the sigma
lures thereon were made In the pres
ence Of the affiant and that to the best
Of the afiant's knowledge and belief
Zach signature Is genuine, and that the
person signing is legal voter, and no
other affidavit or verifcation shall be re.
quired to establish the genuneness Of
such signatures.
The sufficiency Of all Statewide petit
tions shall be decided In the frst In
stance by the Secretary or the state,
and OF municipal, and local petitions by
the 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.
n the sufficiency Of any. petition is
challenged the question shall be tried at
once without reference TO term time or
lay; but the failure OF the courts TO
decide prior TO the election, as TO the
sufYlciency Of such petition shall not
prevent the question from being placed
upon the ballot at the election named
In such petition, nor initiate against
the validity Of the measure II It shall
have been approved by vote of the peo-
pie II the Secretary OF state, County
Clerk, or City Clerk, shall decide any pe.
tion TO be insufficient he shall, without
aelay' notify the sponsors OF the petit
ton and permit at least thirty days
from the date OF such notification for
correction or amendment In tho event
OF legal proceedings TO prevent giving
legal effect TO any petition upon any
upon the person or persona attacking
the validity Of the petition
No law shall be passed requiring a
distribution Of signatures upon petit
tjons in each OF the counties or other
politieal divisions OF the state, nor to
prohibit any person or persons from CIV
Ing or receiving compensation. for cir