The Nevada County picayune., 1916-10-12

cd to the legal voters of each municipal fly and county as to all local special and munic!s legislation of every char ecter fin and f.r their respective muuici. palities and cc uties.
 Counties, C.les and towns may pro vide for the exercise of the 1nltIat'y- and Referendum as to their local les 'at!on. Petitions shall be filed with tTo county or oIty clerk. Not more tha. len ll0y per cent of the legal voters .t pEy county. city, or town may be Ie. tuITed to order thc referendum. mn more than hfteou lj5p per cent of t0s .ecaI voters of any such county city or town. shall be required to propose any measure by initiative petition
 In counties or municipalities the mum Der of signatures required on petition shall be computed upon the vote cast for the office of county judge or mayor st the last preceding election
 Every extension. enlargement pur- chase grant. or conveyance of fran rhise or of any rights. property. ease Went lease, or occupation Of or Tn ans road. street. alley or park or any part thereof in any real property or interest m any real property owned by a munici- pal corporation whotNNr the same be by statute, ordinance, resolution. or other wise shall be subject 10 referendum and shall not be subject to emergency legis iation The time for rIiug a referendum petition against municipal or local measures shall not be fixed at less than thirty days after th" passage thereof by municipal or local Legislative bodies.
 The word "measurr' as used herein.
 
 nance charter. or constitutional amend ment. or any other legislative measure.
 In the case of laws chiefly of local in teIest as the creation of new or addi- ttpua1 Judges. or other officers or offices. referendum by petition shall be sub mttted for approval or rejection to the people of the district interested
 All elections on general. local and special measures referred to the peopN of the State or of any locality shall be held q the regular general election ex- hpn q "a CpnDfV IndKp or Mayor Shali order 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 rho people by either Initiative or Referendum rot. tons as provided fin this section, nor shall thls section be construed to con htCt in any particular with Article l9. section 22 of the Constitution proVid- ing for the submission of constitutional amendments by the Legislative Assem- ply and their adoption by the people.
 This section shall not be construed to depriyc any member of the Legislatt< Assembly of the right to introduce an, measure but no measure shall be sub- mitted to the people by the Legislative Assembly except proposed constitu- tional amendment, or amendment AS pro vded for in Article l9. Section 22 of tho Constitution.
 Any measure submitted to the people by petition as herein provided shall tare erect and became a law when approved bv a majority of the votes cast there on and not otherwise, and shall not be required to receive d majority Of the votes cast for candidates in such cleo ton Such measure shall be operative on and after the thtrtieth day after the election Nt which it is approved
 The veto power of the Governor or the Mayor shall not extend to measures in ltIated hy or referred 10 the people.
 If conflicting measures referred to the people shall be approved by n majority of the votes severally cast for and aEaaust the same. the one receiving the higher number of affirmative votes shall thereby become law ..
 No measure approved by a vote or the people shsll be am~njed or repealed hy the General Assembly or any City Council except by yea or nay vote upon roll call of three fourths of all the mem- hers elected nor shall any such meas ure be set aside in whole or in part aS unconstitutional sKc~pt by unanimous decision of all the members of the su prems Court of tho state
 legal voters only shall D" counted upon petitions Editions may be circu- lated and presented in parts but each thereto the affidavit of the person cir culatink the same, that all the sigma turss thereon were made fin tn" pres ence of the af1aut and that to the best of tho afiautE kuowledge and belief zach signature Is genuine. and that th" person siEniug i% a legal voter and n" 
 quIred to establish the genuineness Of such signatures
 The sufieiency of all statewide pet tions shall be decided in the first in stance by the Secretary of the stats and of municipal and local petitions bY Inc City or County Clerk, subject to re view hy the Supreme Court Of the state which shall have exclusive and original jurisdictton over all such cases
 If the suffeieury or any petition challenged the question shall be tried at once without rFfeteUrc to term tone cor vacation and adjudirated without d. lay. but the fallar" of the counts t' decide prior 10 Che eirCttun as to th" 4ufilctency of such petition shall not prevent the question from being plar"I upon the ballot at the election name m such petition. nor initiate aEhins' the validity of the measure f it shal have been approsed hv a vote of the pc' pl- Ir the Sr,reterN of State. Count {,lerk er eft, Clerk ~hall de, de any p' tion to be tusynIoirHt he shall w'ln'. delay uotfN tn- sponsors of the pei .t1u aud u-rnIt at .'.t~f i..'i. dtN from inc dnte of ~ugt notification for uf legal protrrdttgs to ptcvc'' EiVin' i-gal erset h 1ry petition upon aI' grounds the burden of proof s.'', ne npon The person or persons attAekirE :nS validity of the petition
 No law shall he passed rao,r'nE /" distl.u.,tion of siguatHfes upon hr' tions iu each of the counties or oth'i polttf,aI divisions of the state nor t8 prunlnl auy person or persons from ElN ing or receiving compensation TOT .i' culaUug petitions nor tn pt"""olt th' cirrulaton of petitions. nor in any ws tn Interfere with the freedom or the pc" Ile in securing petitions hut laws ma be cr.tyted prohibituE and penaht'hA any frauduicnt prArtre. snch aN IT' t,fy forgery or any other mi" "ietn"an"= i, the securing or 6ltns of pcttu.a.
 N1 measures sunm' tied e. A vote o Che people hy petitions under the pr" st.,sts of this section shah be puhl-sl .l as .s uow or may hereafter h" Pf' Vldrd hy law A.
 The style of all hllls Initiated ny tn' ,..,,,r. or3 .s,hmttted under the proNis tons of this section. shall be. Be :. enacted by the people of the state O Arksnsas Cmunicipallty or county sres 10 the people. the Secretary Q, state and sil other officials shall p' guided by the general laws until ao duional legislation shall be pro''ue" S.A., rnanlL nt the vote upon anN