State v. Howell

Citations

• 77 Wash. 651
• 138 P. 286
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 956

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Submission—Initiative Measures — Time eor Filing — ■ Construction. 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 4971-1, providing that measures to be submitted upon initiative petition shall be filed within ten months prior to the election, does not require filing ten months prior to the election, but limits the time within which they may be filed to “less than ten months” before election.</p> <p>Same — Initiative Measures — Time eor Filing — Power oe Legislature — Statutes—Construction. Under the initiative and referendum amendment to the constitution (Laws 1911, pp. 137, 139), providing that petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election, and if so filed, the measure shall be submitted to the electors, and declaring that the section is self executing but that legislation may be enacted to facilitate its operation, the legislature has power to fix a reasonable time preceding the election within which a proposed measure shall be filed with the secretary of state, as an act to “facilitate” the initiative and referendum; and the fixing of ten months before the election, leaving but six months within which to complete and file the petitions, is not unreasonable.</p>