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A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLED: AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT OF REFERENDUM UNDER AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, KNOWN AS THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT, BY FIXING A TIME WITHIN WHICH REFERENDUM AS TO MUNICIPAL MEASURES MUST BE FILED.
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1. That the time for filing petitions for referendum on municipal measures as defined in Amendment No. 7 to the Constitution to the State of Arkansas, known as the Initiative and Referendum Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, shall be and is hereby limited to thirty days after the passage of any such measure, and the same shall be filed with the City Clerk.
SECTION 2. Emergency. It is found that the said Amendment NO. 7 to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas gives to municipalities the right to regulate the exercise of said Initiative and Referendum Amendment No. 7; that the immediate passage of this ordinance is necessary to the proper exercise of the right of proper referendum by the people, and this ordinance being necessary to the protection of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, adoption, and publication.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 15th day of November, 1948.