State ex rel. Burnett v. Deck

Citations

• 106 Kan. 518
• 188 P. 238
• 1920 Kan. LEXIS 596

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Recall of Public Officials — Constitutional Provision Not Self-Executing — No One Authorized to Call a Recall 'Election. The constitutional amendment of 1914, providing for the recall of public officials by-special elections (Kan. Const., Art. 4, §§ 3-5, Gen. Stat. 1915, §§ 192-194), is not altogether self-executing but needs supplementary legislation to render it effective, as hitherto no general authority has been granted by statute to any official to call special elections, and none of the many miscellaneous statutes for calling special elections, which vest such power in specific instances in the governor, or the boards of county commissioners, or other public officials, can be construed to fit the constitutional provision which speaks of “the authority for calling elections in the state or other electoral division.”</p>