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Show Five Proposals on Ballot For Utah Voters in 1 974 Five, and in some cases, six proposals will face Utah voters vot-ers in November in addition to regular election contests, citizens citi-zens were reminded by Utah Foundation in a publication released re-leased this week. Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, the private nonprofit research re-search organization, regularly presents special ballot proposals propos-als before election time in order or-der that voters may inform themselves on the issues. Five propositions will be placed pla-ced before all voters of the state, and an additional question ques-tion will go before voters of three Wasatch Front Counties. Four of the state-wide issues propose amendments to the Utah Constitution. The fifth relates re-lates to the land use law enacted en-acted by the 1974 Legislature and then held up by referendum referend-um petition: if a majority of those casting ballots on the land use issue vote for the law, it will take effect without delay, de-lay, but if a majority vote a-gainst a-gainst it, it will be killed as though it had failed of passage pass-age in the Legislature. The Utah Foundation Research Re-search Brief presents the language lang-uage which has bee'i approved approv-ed to be placed on the November Novem-ber ballot, so that voters may familiarize themselves with it, and recognize the issues when they see the propositions in the voting booth. In all cases of proposed constitutional a-mentment, a-mentment, copies of the iaw as now written and of the proposed pro-posed changes will be available at voting places and booths. Propositions to amend the Utah Constitution are: 1. To revise the entire Executive Exec-utive Article (Art. yil). Major changes would abolish the office of-fice of Secretary of State and establish that of Lieutenant Governor, with the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to run "as a team" in election contests, as do candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Time for the Governor to act on bills passed by the Legislature Legisla-ture would be extended from 10 days to 20 days following adjournment, but the Legislature Legisla-ture could call itself back into session to consider overriding gubernatorial vetoes delivered after adjournment. The State Auditor would replace re-place the Secretary of State on the Board of Examiners, acting act-ing with the Governor and Attorney At-torney General, and the Board of Examiners would be resttric-ted resttric-ted to considering "unliquidated" "unliquidat-ed" claims. The Speaker of the House would be added to the line of succession for the office of-fice of Governor, following the Lieutenant Governor (replacing (replac-ing the Secretary of State) and President of the Senate, and provision would be made for removing a Governor or acting Governor from office for inability in-ability to discharge his duties, and for restoring him to office when the disability ends. 2. To permit the State to lend its credit to aid in the establishment or expansion of private industry in the state. 3. To provide a uniform tax in lieu of the property tax on certain personal property, principally prin-cipally automobiles, aircraft and boats. 4. To permit counties cities, and towns to establish special improvement districts whose costs would be paid by beneficiaries bene-ficiaries of services provided. This would be used principally in case of city-county mergers. Citizens of Salt Lake, Davis and Weber Counties will vote on a proposal to fund the Utah Transit Authority, probably by adoption of a one-quarter-cent sales tax. Exact language to go on the ballot is determined by commissioners of the respective counties. Utah Foundation has earlier this year released detailed information in-formation reports on the land use planning, mass transit and the proposed constitutional changes related to the executive execu-tive branch. |