SENATE BILL NO. 429
INTRODUCED BY M. SPRAGUE, GILLAN, BISHOP, BOHLINGER, BRANAE, R. BROWN, FORRESTER, FUCHS, GLASER, HARGROVE, MCGEE, K. MILLER
AN ACT EXTENDING THE TIME PERIOD WITHIN WHICH A PETITION REQUESTING A REFERENDUM ON AN ORDINANCE MAY BE FILED; AMENDING SECTION 7-5-132, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Section 7-5-132, MCA, is amended to read:
"7-5-132. Procedure to exercise right of initiative or referendum. (1) The electors may
initiate and amend ordinances and require submission of existing ordinances to a vote of the people
by petition. If an approved petition containing sufficient signatures is filed prior to the ordinance's
effective date or within 60 days after the passage of the ordinance, whichever is later, a petition
requesting a referendum on the ordinance shall delay delays the ordinance's effective date until the
ordinance is ratified by the electors. A petition requesting a referendum on an emergency ordinance
filed within 30 60 days of its the effective date shall suspend of the ordinance suspends the
ordinance until ratified by the electors.
(2) The governing body may refer existing or proposed ordinances to a vote of the people by resolution.
(3) A petition or resolution for initiative or referendum shall must:
(a) embrace only a single comprehensive subject;
(b) set out fully the ordinance sought by petitioners or, in the case of an amendment, set out fully the ordinance sought to be amended and the proposed amendment or, in the case of referendum, set out the ordinance sought to be repealed;
(c) be in the form prescribed in Title 13, chapter 27, except as specifically provided in this part;
(d) contain the signatures of 15% of the registered electors of the local government; and
(e) contain transition provisions if the measure changes terms of office or forms of government."
Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.
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