Cite as: 34 CNCA § 10

When any such initiative or referendum petition shall be offered for filing, the Election Commission, in the presence of the person offering the same for filing, shall detach the sheets containing the signatures and affidavits and cause them all to be attached to one or more printed copies of the measure so proposed by initiative or referendum petition. All petitions for the initiative and referendum and sheets for signatures shall be printed on pages eight and one-half inches (8 1/2″) in width by fourteen inches (14″) in length, with a margin of one and three-fourths inches (1 3/4″) at the top for binding; if the aforesaid sheets shall be too bulky for convenient binding in one (1) volume, they may be bound in two or more volumes, those in each volume to be attached to a single printed copy of such measure; the detached copies of such measures shall be delivered to the person offering the same for filing. Each of the volumes and each signature sheet therein shall be numbered consecutively, and a cover sheet shall be attached, showing the purported number of signature sheets, the series of numbers assigned to the signature sheets and the total number of signatures counted per volume. The Commission shall render a signed receipt to the person offering the petition for filing, which receipt shall include a report, volume by volume, showing the number of signature sheets in each volume, the series of numbers assigned to the signature sheets in each volume, and the number of purported signatures in each volume. Duplicate copies of the cover sheets, with necessary corrections, may be used as receipts. The Commission shall not provide any copies of signature sheets to anyone until the sheets have been bound as provided in this section.

Historical Data

LA 16–01, eff. June 15, 2001. Amended LA 19–01, eff. June 15, 2001; LA 15–04, eff. April 19, 2004.