The Nevada County picayune., 1922-07-06
FOR AMENDMENT NO. 13. AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. t3.

A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
 OF ARKANSAS
 That Section of Article of the Consti- tuition of the State of Arkansas, and Amend ment No. 10 thereto. be amended to read follows:
 Section l. The legislative power of the people of this State shall he vested in a General Assembly. which shall consist of the Senate and House of Representatives. 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. independent of the General Assembly also reserve the power at their option. to approve or reject at the polls any entire act or any item of an appropriation bill.
 The first power reserved by the people is the initiative. Eight per cent of the legal voters may propose any law and ten per cent may propose Constitutional Amend ment by initiative petition, and every such petition shah include the full text of the measures proposed. Initiative petitions for state wide measures shall be filed with the Secretary of State not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon provided, that at least thirty days before the aforementioned filing, the proposed measure shall have been published once at the expense of the petitioners. in some paper of general circulation.
 REFERENDUM
 The second power reserved by the people is the Referendum and any number not less than six per cent of the legal voters may. by petition, order the Referendum against any general act, or any item of an appro- priaton bill, measure passed by the General Assembly but the filing of a Referendum petition against one or more items. sections or parts of any such act measure shall not delay the remainder from becoming operative. Such petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State not later than ninety days after the final adjournment of the ses- sion at which such act was passed except when a recess or adjournment shall be taken temporarily for a longer period than ninety days, in which such petition shall be filed not later than ninety days after such recess or temporary adjournment. Any mea- sure referred to the people by referendum petition shall remain in abeyance until such vote is taken. The total number of votes cast for the office of Governor in the last preceding general election shall be the basis upon which the number of signatures of legal voters upon statewide initiative and referendum petitions shall be computed
 Upon all Initiative Referendum petitions provided for in any of the sections of this article. it shall be necessary to file from at least fifteen of the counties of the State, petitions bearing the signature of not less than one-half of the designated percentage of the electors of such county.
 EMERGENCY
 IT it shall be necessary for the preservar tion of the public peace, health or safety, that a measure shall become effective without delay, such necessity shall be stated in one section and if upon a yea and nay vote two house. or two-thirds of all the members elected to city or town councils shall vote upon separate roll call in favor of the mea- sure going into immediate operation. such emergency measure shall become effective ever, to state the fact which constitutes such emergency Provided however, that emer- gency shall not be declared on any franchise or special privilege. or act creating any vested right or interest. or alternating any property of the State. If Referendum is filed against any emergency measure, such measure shall be . law until it is voted upon by the people. and if it is then rejected by majority of electors voting thereon. 1t shall subsection shall apply to city or town councils
 LOCAL FOR MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
 The Initiative and Referendum powers of the people are hereby further reserved to the legal voters of each municipality and county as to all local. special and municipal legisla- tion of every character in and for their respective municipalities and counties, but no local legislation shall be enacted contrary to the Constitution or any general law of the State. and any general law shall have the effect of repeating any local legislation which is in conflict herewith.
 Municipalities may provide for the exercise of the Initiative and Referendum as to their local legislation. General laws shall be enact ed providing for the exercise of the Initiative and Referendum as to counties. Fifteen per cent of the legal voters of any municipality or county may order the Referendum, or in- yoke the Initiative upon any local measure. In municipalities the number of signatures | required upon any petition shall be computed upon the total vote cast for the office of Mayor at the last preceding general election in counties upon the office of Circuit Clerk Tn municipalities and counties the time for filing an Initiative petition shall not be fixed at less than sixty days nor more than ninety days before the election. at which is to be voted upon for a Referendum petition al not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days after the passage of such measure by municipal council; nor less than ninety days when filed against a local or special measure passed by the General Assembly. Every extension. enlsseement. grant. or conveyance of francsae any rights property, easement. lease, or occupation of or in any road street, alley or any part thereof in real property or interest in real property owned by municipalities, exceeding in value three hundred dollars. whether the same be by statute ordinance. resolution or otherwise. shall be subject to Referendum. and shall not be subject to emergency legislation. GENERAL PROVISIONS DEFINITION
 The word measure" as used herein in- cludes any bill. law, resolution. ordinance charter constitutional amendment leGisla- tive proposal or enactment of any character
 No VETo
 The veto power of the Governor or Mayor shall not extend to measure initiated by or referred 10 the people
 AMENDMENT AND APPEAL
 No measure approved by vote of the people shall be amended repealed by the General Assembly by any City Council except upon a yea and nay vote on roll call of two-thirds of ali the members elected to each house of the General Assembly. or of the City Council az the may be.
 ELECTIONS
 All measure initiated by the people, whether for State. county. city town shall be submitted only at the regular elections. l..