Initiative and Referendum

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Section
1-40-101

Legislative declaration.

Section
1-40-102

Definitions. [Editor's note: This version of the introductory portion to this section is effective until November 1, 2020.]

Section
1-40-103

Applicability of article.

Section
1-40-104

Designated representatives.

Section
1-40-105

Filing procedure - review and comment meeting - amendments - filing with secretary of state.

Section
1-40-105.5

Initial fiscal impact statement - definition.

Section
1-40-106

Title board - meetings - ballot title - initiative and referendum.

Section
1-40-107

Rehearing - appeal - fees - signing.

Section
1-40-108

Petition - time of filing.

Section
1-40-109

Signatures required - withdrawal.

Section
1-40-110

Warning - ballot title.

Section
1-40-111

Signatures - affidavits - notarization - list of circulators and notaries.

Section
1-40-112

Circulators - requirements - training.

Section
1-40-113

Form - representatives of signers.

Section
1-40-114

Petitions - not election materials - no bilingual language requirement.

Section
1-40-115

Ballot - voting - publication.

Section
1-40-116

Validation - ballot issues - random sampling - rules.

Section
1-40-117

Statement of sufficiency - cure.

Section
1-40-118

Protest.

Section
1-40-119

Procedure for hearings.

Section
1-40-120

Filing in federal court.

Section
1-40-121

Designated representatives - expenditures related to petition circulation report - penalty - definitions.

Section
1-40-122

Certification of ballot titles.

Section
1-40-123

Counting of votes - effective date - conflicting provisions.

Section
1-40-124

Publication.

Section
1-40-124.5

Ballot information booklet.

Section
1-40-125

Mailing to electors.

Section
1-40-126

Explanation of effect of "yes/for" or "no/against" vote included in notices provided by mailing or publication.

Section
1-40-126.5

Explanation of ballot titles and actual text of measures in notices provided by mailing or publication.

Section
1-40-127

Ordinances - effective, when - referendum. (Repealed)

Section
1-40-128

Ordinances, how proposed - conflicting measures. (Repealed)

Section
1-40-129

Voting on ordinances. (Repealed)

Section
1-40-130

Unlawful acts - penalty.

Section
1-40-131

Tampering with initiative or referendum petition.

Section
1-40-132

Enforcement.

Section
1-40-133

Retention of petitions.

Section
1-40-134

Withdrawal of initiative petition.

Section
1-40-135

Petition entities - requirements - definition.

Section
1-40-136

Bills enacted in the second regular session of the seventy-second general assembly that include an act subject to petition clause - legislative declaration.