Show SUBSCRIPTION RATES In n Moab and nd Grand County Ond Odd Year n rn Two Years SO Three Years 1 w EUc where In Utah I One Year fear Two Iv a Years Year ww Three Years aMi 1100 Out of Stat 0 One ne Ye Year r w Two 1 Years f Three Years 1250 I iM t 0 t o FIRST CLASS PRINTING G I Th The Th Proposed Changes in Utah's r W STATE OI OF UTAH r 0 I r OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE I SAM SALT Iun t i August 29 20 1966 flea Dear Fellow Citizens f The Tha Legislature of the thc State of Utah has entrusted en- en trusted me inc with wit the responsibility for publishing the ic following Propositions which relate clate to changes changes' in inthe the ic Constitution of the ic State of Utah Via b In the beginning of the ic body of each Proposition we ce have hae set forth the Ballot Title TUfe of the Proposition as WI it will appear on the ic General Election Ballot on November 8 1966 Because of the ic very serious nature of these Propositions which 1 your State Legislature has caused to be placed before belore you 1 I urge that each of you study the text of the Propositions Propositions in full fall I urge rue you to consult with your yom friends neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors s and local civic leaders in order tat that you may nay gain oain all aU information necessary to render a a- ajust just and wise vise decision S Sincerely f l h CLYDE L. L MILLER W Secretary of State Be De is k resolved by two-thirds two of or orthe the llio members elected to each branch of the llio Legislature PROPOSITION NO 1 METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT SHALL A NEW ARTICLE BK m ADDED TO 10 THE TIlE CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION CON CON- OF THE TIlE STATE STAfE OF U UTAH F A II H TO PERMIT COUNTIES COUNTIES' OP 01 OR MORE PERSONS TO 10 ES ES- A VAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT GOVERN GOVERN- M MEN MENT li N T 1 WITHIN METROPOLITAN METROPOLITAN METROPOLITAN METRO METRO- POLITAN REGIONS WHICH CO COULD U L D REPLACE ANY EXISTING UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITHIN THE TIlE REGION Section 1 The he residents of or a n county with a n resident population population tion of not fewer than as us determined by the last national na or state census aro are empowered empowered em em- powered to establish a metropolitan itan region and provide for the government thereof subject only to the limitations oC or this article Sec 2 Notwithstanding any other provisions of the constitution i tion of ot this state a metropolitan I government created in accordance accord accord- anco ance with the procedure outlined outlined out out- lined herein may assume or transfer powers powen and functions of existing governmental units provide pro vide ide for revenue to support a metropolitan government assume as as- sume sumo indebtedness of existing governmental units transfer of of- records funds and other property and assets and provide I tor for all matters necessary or incidental to the effectuation of the foregoing provisions Sec 3 Whenever tho the residents resi rest dents of If a metropolitan region desire to create a metropolitan government gb a petition to do so may mar be filed naming the tho metropolitan metro- metro politan region and ana describing the boundaries thereof Such l petition n shall be signed by quail quail- hod electors electon equal to ten percent or more moro of the votes cast at the tho next preceding general election within tho the proposed metropolitan tan region and shall bo ho filed flied in inthe inthe in inthe the of tho the Secretary of State at least six months prior to tho the next general election Sec 4 The Secretary of State shall shail forthwith publish notice of the tho filing of the petition naming tho metropolitan region and setting setting set set- ting forth the boundaries thereof as described in tho the petition The Die ho notice shall bo be published once a week for lor six consecutive weeks in a newspaper having a 11 general circulation and published in the county containing land proposed to 1 bo be 0 included in tho Ule metropolitan tan region and ami the Secretary ot of State Slate shall transmit a certified I copy of ot the tho petition to tho the county clerk of tho the county con con- corned The 1110 matter ah shall shau U be bo placed d before tho the registered voters residing in tho the metropolitan metro metro- politan region upon a ballot reading substantially Iy Should a II metropolitan typo of cf government govern ment meat bo be created Yes l orNo orNo or orNo No at the tho next general election electron held regularly alter utter tho the filing tiling of the petition Sec 5 6 At the time timo tho the voters voter residing within the metropolitan region vote voto to approve or reject the tho metropolitan typo tyro of local government ct tit a general election dec elec tion lion they shall hall also vote for or fifteen fit file teen persons to bo ho members of ofa It a charter commission to prepare a 11 plan of metropolitan govern govern- government ment mont Candidates shall be quail quail- fled electors raiding reiding within the metropolitan region who shall shaH bs l q nominated b by y petition peti neti tion lion signed with their respective lUt addresses by b not miot fewer than fifty registered voters voter residing J the tha he proposed region Said petition i e tit ion shall hall bo bu tiled filed with the Secretary cf of If State at Dt least widy flay day prior to tho the g general gneri ele election lc ti tion n. n If a majority y of the Uie electors von voting upon D tion vote in the affirmative the fifteen candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast at such election shall constitute the charter commission The ballot for a charter commission shall not contain any party designs designs- tion Sec 6 If a metropolitan type o of government is approved charter commission shall one ono month after being elected on a day daJ JiM and time be be set b by bythe the Secretary of State meet an and organize in the metropolitan re region rei gion and proceed to-frame to a charter setting forth a n plan of government for the thc metropolitan region The expenses of the charter commission shall be advanced advanced advanced ad ad- by tho the state and the state shall be bo repaid by the tho metropolitan region within five years Charter commissioners shall be allowed no pay for their services but shall be allowed necessary expenses by the board of examiners Sec 7 The charter charier so framed shall bo ho filed with the Secretary of State by the charter commission commission commis commis- sio sion and then sub submitted to the tho qualified e 1 electors of the tho metropolitan metropolitan metro metro- politan region at an election tobo tobe to tobo bo be held at a time timo to be determined deter mined by tho the charter commission commission commis commis- sion which shall be not less than sixty days subsequent t to its completion and not more than one ono year ear from such date tt provisions may be v ved voted vote vot ed cd upon separately Notice as asto asto asto to the tho manner of obtaining free copies of the proposed charter and its alternatives certified by the chairman of tho the charter commission shall hall bo ho J. J published in the manner provided for notice of petition in section 4 Such proposed charter and alternative alternative al al- al e provisions approved by bya a majority of the tho electors voting at a time timo to be bo fixed therein and anel shall supersede any existing law Jaw of tho the metropolitan region thereon shall become the tho organic charters The Tho government ere ere- thereby may supersede any existing forms of government included in in- in the tho metropolitan region re re- re gion if so provided in the char char- ter tar Adoption of the charter shall not invalidate existing laws and ordinances not in conflict con con- hid therewith The metropolitan tan government shall have the power to amend repeal repeat or replace re me- place the tho ordinances of such superseded governmental units Within thirty days das after approval approval ap ap- provat of the tho charter duplicate copies thereof certified by the tho charter commission chairman shall ahall be bo filed in the office of the Secretary of State who shall de tie liver one ona copy thereof to the officer of the tho metropolitan region region re reo gion designated by the charter alter after said gaid officer qualifies The charter may many sub subsequently e be bo amended or changed hanged in 11 tho the manner man mane ner ncr provided in Section 5 of Article XI of the tho Constitution Sec 8 The metropolitan re region ye reo gion government shall ahall be a body politic and corporate and h have vo all aU rights powers powen jurisdictions and authority now exercised by by- towns cities counties and all aU special purpose districts Such uch metropolitan itan region government can sue aua and be sued subject to limitations limitation conditions and procedure established by the legislature and the rules ruie of ot procedure procedure pro pro- promulgated by the supreme su sit preme premo court pertaining to muni mimi filial corporations J o charter pf Pt each metropolitan region shall shaU the tho officer who may bo be served as WI h process roces agent This ihl amendment shall shah take effect on approval by the eJe elec electors tors tars of the tho state PROPOSITION NO O. O 2 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CALL WHEREAS TilE THIRTY SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF iI THE Ill 1 t ST STATE TH OF OP Li UTAH P A I I 11 T TO CALL A CONVENTION TO 10 REVISE OU OR AMEND P TilE THE II B CONSTITUTION OF OP TIm TIlE STATE OF UTAH AND HAS RECOMMENDED THAT AT THE TI-hE ELECTORS VOTE AT THIS TillS ELECTION FOR OR OFt AGAINST A CONVENT CON CON- VI VENT ION THEREFORE E VOTE EITHER WHEREAS the people of this sovereign State Slate of Utah are aro blessed with the constitutional constitutional guarantees of life liberty property and self government and WHEREAS the guarantee of self government itself extends to the right of the people to revise their constitutional charter and WHEREAS it U is appropriate that the people should turn their attention periodically to a consideration consideration con con- of fundamental concepts concepts con con- of government and the machinery of government in the light of social and economic conditions NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by two-thirds two of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature that it be recommended to the elec elee tors tom to vote at the general dec elec tion to be held in iii 1906 1900 for or against a convention to consider the Constitution of Utah and whether it shall be amended or revised By this action it is deemed necessary that such proposition be bo submitted to the tho said electors BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED ED that tho the Secretary of State is directed t to submit this proposition ropo- ropo to the electors of the State of Utah in the general election I I to be bo held in 1966 1963 The tion shall hall be submitted to the tho electors in irr the following form fonn orm Whereas the thirty-sixth thirty Leg of the tho State of Utah deemed it necessary to call calla a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Utah and has baa recommended that tho electors vote at this election for or against a convention convention con con- therefore vote either for lor oa a c convention n 0 Q against a convention D J if a majority of all alt the electors voting at this election shall sitaR vote for or a convention the Legislature at its ita next session ses sea sion awn shall provide by law for calling the same PROPOSITION NO 3 SUCCESSION OF OP STATE AUDITOR AT AND STATE TREASURER SHALL SECTION 3 OF ARTICLE VII OF THE CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION CON CON- OF THE STATE OF UTAH BE DE AMENDED TO ALLOW THE STATE AUDITOR AND THE STATE TREASURER TO BE lIE ELIGIBLE ELIGI BLE TO Jo SERVE FOR NOT MORE THAN TWO SUCCESSIVE SIVE TERMS RATHER THAN TItAN THE ONE TERM NOW ALLOWED Section 1 It II is proposed to amend Article VII Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Utah to read as follows Sec 3 No person shall be eligible to the tho office of governor or secretary of state unless he shall have havo attained to tho the age of thirty years at the time tune of his election nor zor to the office of attorney general unless he shall have havo attained the age of twenty five years at the time tune of his election and have been admitted to practice in inthe the tho supreme su suo preme premo court of the tho territory or orthe orthe orthe the state of Utah nor unless he shall ahaU be bo in good standing at the bar at the tho time timo of his election N No person shall shaU bo be eligible to any of the tho offices provided for forin forin forin in section otto one of ot this article unless at the time of ol his election lie be shall ahall bo be a qualified elector anti and shall have been a resident citizen of the state or territory fo for five fiva years next ned pre preceding ding his liis is election The state auditor and state treasurer shall be ineligible in eligible to serve for more moJO than two wo successive terms If Jf adopted by the tho electors doctors of this state tills this amendment shall take tako effect upon approval PROPOSITION NO 4 LEGISLATIVE STANDING COMMITTEE ll SHALL SIlI ARTICLE VI OF OFT T P THE 1 11 1 I CONSTITUTION OF TIlE THE STATE SlATE OF Ot UTAH B BE AMENDED BY TilE THE ADDI TION lION OF SECTION 83 83 AU EACH HOUSE OF Oil THE rIlE LEGISLATURE TO APPOINT COMMITTEES TO 10 SERVE BETWEEN LEGIS LArivE 8 SESSIONS Jo s tU 0 N 8 AS ASWELL ASWELL ASWELL WELL AS DURING SES SIGNS AND TO PROVIDE FOR on rilE THE STAFFING AND FINANCING OF SAID COM COAl ES Se Section tion 1 It II Is proposed to b amend ament Article VI of the Con dilution of tho the State of Utah by tho tho addition of Section 33 to r read ad Section 33 In o order er to exPedite ex ex- the work of the legis sie lature each house housa way may by bj resolution provide for o w the po ap p 1 of ot committees to ascertain facts acts and make recommendations rec roe as to any subject I within the scope of legislative i regulation or or control anti ami joint committees consisting of mem memo bers hers of both houses may he be created by joint resolutions A resolution creating any such committee may many authorize it to act during sessions of the tho leg kg- during periods when the legislature is in adjournment or after aCter final adjournment of ofa ofa ofa a Bes session ion Any such committee shall have tho the powers and perform perform per per- form the duties provided by hy the resolution creating it it including the power of subpoena and the tho power to hire and anti to te maintain staff and amI in addition it shall have such powers loweN and perform such duties as aa may be provided by bylaw law Jaw or by ly the rules of the legislature or either house there there- of The Tho legislature may provide for the payment of expenses necessarily incurred by any such committee This amendment if adopted by the electors of or the state shall take effect the first day of January 1967 PROPOSITION ON NO 5 ANNUAL SESSIONS OF TIlE THE LEGISLATURE SHALL SECTIONS 2 AND 16 OF ARTICLE VI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE Ti-fE STATE OF UTAH BE AMENDED TO PROVIDE FOR 0 ANNUAL SESSIONS OF T TIlE THE JI E LEGISLATURE CONSISTING OF A GENERAL GENERAL GEN GEN- ERAL SESSION OF 01 NOT TO EXCEED FORTY FIVE LEG LEG- DAYS IN ODD NUMBERED YEARS AND A BUDGET SESSION OF NOT NOTTO NOTTO NOTTO TO EXCEED TW TWENTY E N T 1 LEGISLATIVE B DAYS DAY A Y S IN EVEN NUMBERED YEARS THIS PROPOSAL WOULD REPLACE A SIXTY CALENDAR CALEN GALEN DAR DAY SESSION WHICH NOW MEETS EVERY OTHER YEAR Section 1 It is proposed to amend Article VI Sections 2 and Iff 6 of the Constitution of the State of Utah to read Tead Sec See 2 Regular sessions of the legislature shall be held annually annu saint ally at the seat of government Regular sessions which shall be ho known as general sessions sessions shall 1 VIA h. h 11 i 4 f t h 1 I 1 Jit l 4 J JC O and regular sessions which shall be known as budget |