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2020 Idaho Code
Title 34 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 18 - INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM ELECTIONS
Section 34-1802 - INITIATIVE PETITIONS — TIME FOR GATHERING SIGNATURES — TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF SIGNATURES TO THE COUNTY CLERK — TIME FOR FILING.

Universal Citation: ID Code § 34-1802 (2020)
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34-1802. INITIATIVE PETITIONS — TIME FOR GATHERING SIGNATURES — TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF SIGNATURES TO THE COUNTY CLERK — TIME FOR FILING. (1) Except as provided in section 34-1804, Idaho Code, petitions for an initiative shall be circulated and signatures obtained beginning upon the date that the petitioners receive both the fiscal impact statement and the official ballot title from the secretary of state and extending eighteen (18) months from that date, or April 30 of the year of the next general election, whichever occurs earlier. The last day for circulating petitions and obtaining signatures shall be the last day of April in the year an election on the initiative will be held.

(2) The person or persons or organization or organizations under whose authority the measure is to be initiated shall submit the petitions containing signatures to the county clerk for verification pursuant to the provisions of section 34-1807, Idaho Code. The signatures required shall be submitted to the county clerk not later than the close of business on the first day of May in the year an election on the initiative will be held, or eighteen (18) months from the date the petitioner receives the official ballot title from the secretary of state, whichever is earlier.

(3) The county clerk shall, within sixty (60) calendar days of the deadline for the submission of the signatures, verify the signatures contained in the petitions, but in no event shall the time extend beyond the last day of June in the year an election on the initiative will be held.

(4) Initiative petitions with the requisite number of signatures attached shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four (4) months before the election at which they are to be voted upon.

History:

[34-1802, added 1933, ch. 210, sec. 2, p. 431; am. 1997, ch. 266, sec. 3, p. 758; am. 2011, ch. 285, sec. 14, p. 784; am. 2020, ch. 317, sec. 1, p. 902.]

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