The Little River news., 1920-08-14
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 PETITION, PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 1a TO THE CONSTITUTION or AR-
 KANSAS

Amending Section l. Article 5, to the IConstitution of the State of Arkansas, posing:
 That eight per cent of the legal voters may propose any law and ten anne ndment
 That the second power reserved by 1 the people is the referendum by which six per cent of the voters may by peti- tion order the referendum of any gem eral acts or any item of an appropria- tion bill or measure passed by the Gen eral Assembly. There snail be filed petitions from at least fifteen counties of the State and bearing signatures of one-half percentage of electors of such county.
 That two-thirds vote is necessary Legislative or Town Council measures.
 That the initiative and refer endum powers of the people are reserved to the legal voters of each muni ipality and county.
 That the veto power of the Governor I or Mayor shall not extend to nitiative or referendum measures and that the same Is not subject to amendment by the General Assembly or City Council except by two thirds vote.
 That all measures initiated by the ular elections except when fifteen per cent Of voters petition for special elec- ton.
 That any measure shall take effect
 
 majority of the votes cast on such measure.
 That no limitation shall be placed on the number Of constitutional amend mentS, laws OF other measures which may be proposed.
 FOR AMENDMENT NO. 13
 AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. B Be Tt Enacted by the People of the
 State of Arkansas:
 That section. l, of Article 5 to the 0f 1 n Sa q and Amendr ent No. 10 thereto be amended so as to raed as follows
 Section L The legislative power of the people of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly. which shall consist of the Senate and House of Representa tives, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose legislative measures, laws and amend ments to the Constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls inde- pendent of the General Assembly; and option to approve or reject at the polls any entire act or any item of an ap" propriation bill
 Initiative, The first power reserved per cent of the legal voters may pro- pose any law and ton per cent may propose constitutional amendment by initia tive petition, and every such peti- tion shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative peti- tions for statewide measures shall be
  less than four months before the cleo tion at which they are to be voted upon: Provided, that at least thirty days before the aforementioned filing, published once, at the expense of the petitioners, in some paper of general circulation.
 Referendum, The second power re- and any number not less than six per cent of the legal voters may, by peti tion, order the referendum against any general act; or any item of an appro- General Assembly. but the filing of g referendum petition against one or such act or measure shall not delay the remainder from becoming oper- ative. Such petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State not later than of the session at which such act was passed, except when recess or ad- 1ournment shall be taken temporarily for a longer period than ninety days filed not later than ninety days after slch recess or temporary adjournment. Any measure referred to the people by rfferendum petition shall reraain in abeyance until such vote Is taken. The total number of votes cast for the of flee of Governor in the last preceding which the number of signatures of legal voters upon statewide initiative and referendum petitions shall be com pu&ed.
 Upon all initiative or referendum petitions provided for In any of the sections of this article, 1t shall be necessary to als from st least fifteen of the counties of the State. petitions bearing the signature of not less than one-half eff the designated percentage of the electors of such county.
 for the preservation of the public peace. health or safety, that a measure shall become effective without delay, such necessity shall be stated in one two thirds of all the members elected to each house, or two-thirds of all the mem bers elected to city or town coun- cils; shall vote upon separate roll call mediate operation. such emergency measure shall become effective without delay. It shall be necessary, however. to state the fact which constitutas as such emergency. Provided however, that an emergency shall not be de- clared on any franchise or special priv ilege or act creating any vested right of the State. If referendum Is filed against any emergency measure such measure shall be a law until 1t Is voted rejected by majority of the electors voting theT it shall be thereby re- Ipealed. The provisions of this sub section shall apply to city or town I
 Local for Municipalities and Counties {, The initiative and referendum powers of the people are hereby further re- served to the legal voters of each municipality and county as to all local speciar, and municipal Legislation of every character in and for their re- spective municipalities and counties but no local legislation shall be enacted ron trary to the Constitution or any general law of the State, and any gen laral law shall have the effect of repeal ling any local legislation which is in lcenhict thorewith.
 l Municipalities may provide for tn exercise of the initiative and refer 1endum as to their local legis ation jIeneral laws shall be enacted p-ovid- llng for the exercise of the initiative land referendum as to counties. Fifteen lper cent of the legal voters of any lrrunicipality or county may order tn 3 Ireferendum, or invoke the initiative upon any local measure. Tn municipal ities the number of signatures re- auired upon any petition shall be com Iputed upon the total vote ast for the ]offce of mayor at the last preceding general election; in counties upon the Ioffice of circuit clerk. In municipali- | jties and counties the time for fling an iini@ tive petition shall not be fixed - than sixty days nor more than days before the election at