Section 116.050

Title IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 116

Effective - 28 Aug 1997, 2 histories   

  116.050.  Initiative and referendum petitions, requirements. — 1.  Initiative and referendum petitions filed under the provisions of this chapter shall consist of pages of a uniform size.  Each page, excluding the text of the measure, shall be no larger than eight and one-half by fourteen inches.  Each page of an initiative petition shall be attached to or shall contain a full and correct text of the proposed measure.  Each page of a referendum petition shall be attached to or shall contain a full and correct text of the measure on which the referendum is sought.

  2.  The full and correct text of all initiative and referendum petition measures shall:

  (1)  Contain all matter which is to be deleted included in its proper place enclosed in brackets and all new matter shown underlined;

  (2)  Include all sections of existing law or of the constitution which would be repealed by the measure; and

  (3)  Otherwise conform to the provisions of Article III, Section 28 and Article III, Section 50 of the Constitution and those of this chapter.

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(L. 1980 S.B. 658, A.L. 1997 S.B. 132)