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County Officers Jan 1924

County Officers

Propositions

Senate constitutional amendment 15. Amends Section 9 of Article XI of Constitution, which prohibits increase in salary of county officer, by inserting therein a proviso authorizing legislature by general laws to provide that such additional deputies or assistants as may be necessary and proper be allowed to the principal in any county office during his term and also provide that the compensation of such deputy or assistant be increased during the term of office of such principal.

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Eminent Domain Jan 1924

Eminent Domain

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 31. Amends Section 23a of Article XII of Constitution, which now empowers railroad commission to exercise such power as Legislature confers upon it to fix compensation to be paid for taking property of public utility in eminent domain proceedings by the state or any county, municipality or municipal water district, so as to authorize that commission to exercise such power when such proceedings are taken by an irrigation district or other public corporation or district.

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Boxing And Wrestling Contests Jan 1924

Boxing And Wrestling Contests

Initiatives

BOXING AND WRESTLING CONTESTS. Initiative measure. Authorizes boxing and wrestling contests for prizes or purses, or where admission fee is charged, limiting such boxing contests to twelve rounds; creates athletic commission empowered to license such contests and participants therein; prescribes conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held; declares amateur boxing contests, conducted under Section 412 of Penal Code which prohibits prize fights and limits amateur boxing contests to four rounds, shall be subject to provisions of this measure and under sole jurisdiction of such commission when admission fee is charged.

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Klamath River Fish And Game District Jan 1924

Klamath River Fish And Game District

Propositions

Initiative measure. Creates Klamath River Fish and Game District consisting of Klamath River and waters thereof following its meanderings from confluence of Klamath and Shasta rivers in Siskiyou County to mouth of Klamath River in Del Norte County, Prohibits the construction or maintenance of any dam or other artificial obstruction in waters of said district, prescribes penalties therefor, and declares any such artificial obstruction to be a public nuisance.

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Bonds Jan 1924

Bonds

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 49. Amends Section 1 ¾ of Article XIII of Constitution. Declares that all bonds hereafter issued by the State of California, or by any county, city and county, municipal corporation or district, including school, reclamation, irrigation, and public• utility districts, within this state, shall be free and exempt from taxation.

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Municipal Courts Jan 1924

Municipal Courts

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 25. Amends Sections 1, 5, 11, 12, 14, 18, 23 and 24 of Article VI of Constitution, relating to courts and their jurisdiction, by providing therein for the establishment of municipal courts as courts of record in any city or city and county and for their jurisdiction for the establishment of appellate departments of the superior court in any county or city and county wherein any municipal court is established.

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Poll Taxes Jan 1924

Poll Taxes

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 47. Amends Section 12 of Article XIII of Constitution, Declares Legislature shall provide for levy and collection of an annual educational poll tax of not less than five dollars on every male inhabitant of this state over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, except those holding honorable discharge or discharged under honorable circumstances from United States army, navy or marine corps, those paying real or personal property tax amounting to at least five dollars per annum, paupers, idiots, insane persons and imbeciles; such poll tax to be paid into state school fund.

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Suffrage Jan 1924

Suffrage

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 24 amending Section 1 of Article II by inserting therein proviso, declaring that any person duly registered as an elector in one precinct and removing therefrom to another precinct in the same county within thirty days of an election shall for the purpose of such election be deemed to be a resident and qualified elector of the precinct from which he so removed until after such election.

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Deposit Of Public Moneys Jan 1924

Deposit Of Public Moneys

Propositions

Assembly constitutional amendment 46. Amends Section 16 ½ of Article XI of Constitution by extending to any political subdivision, the provisions permitting the deposit in banks of this state of moneys belonging to or in the custody of the state or any political subdivision.

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Boxing And Wrestling Contests Jan 1924

Boxing And Wrestling Contests

Propositions

Initiative measure. Authorizes boxing and wrestling contest for prizes or purses, or where admission fee is charged, limiting such boxing contests to twelve rounds; creates athletic commission empowered to license such contests and participants therein; prescribes conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held; declares amateur boxing contests, conducted under Section 412 of Penal Code, which prohibits prize fights and limits amateur boxing contests to four rounds, shall be subject to provisions of this measure and under sole jurisdiction of such commission when admission fee is charged.

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Taxation Jan 1924

Taxation

Propositions

Assembly constitution amendment 30. Adds Section 12 ½ to Article XIII of Constitution. Authorizes taxation of notes, debentures, shares of stock, bonds, solvent credits or mortgages, not now exempt, in manner, at rate or proportionate to value, different from other property, and in lieu of all other property taxes thereon, requiring equitable distribution thereof to political subdivision wherein levied; rates not to exceed those on other property not exempt, and when fixed by legislature altered only by two-thirds vote of each house; property taxed for state purposes under Section 14 of same article unaffected hereby.

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State Taxation Jan 1924

State Taxation

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 51. Amends Section 14 of Article XIII of Constitution. Exempts from the state tax on insurance companies county fire insurance companies organized under act of April 1, 1897; .provides that state shall reimburse all counties for net loss in county revenue occasioned by withdrawal of property from county taxation, and directs Legislature to provide for reimbursement from county general funds to districts suffering loss from such withdrawals.

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Tax Exemption Jan 1924

Tax Exemption

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 52. Amends Section 1 of Article XIII of Constitution by inserting a proviso therein declaring exempt from taxation property not exceeding in value in anyone county $50,000, used exclusively as air-ports or aviation fields under the control of United States Government and while so used and under such control.

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Water And Power Jan 1924

Water And Power

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Article XIVa to Constitution. Creates board, appointed by Governor and subject to recall, authorized to develop and distribute water and electric energy, acquire by any legal means any property therefor and do anything convenient thereto, including using and reserving state lands and waters; gives state and political subdivisions certain preferential rights against privately owned public utilities selling water or electric energy to public; authorizes issuance of bonds not exceeding $500,000,000, to further such purposes, requiring board to fix rates to meet expenses and retire bonds in fifty years.

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Veterans Validating Act Sep 1922

Veterans Validating Act

Initiatives

VETERANS' VALIDATING ACT. Initiative measure adding proviso to Section 31, Article IV of Constitution. Permits State aid with money or credit to United States army or navy veterans, who served during wartime, in acquiring or developing farms or homes or in land settlement projects; validates, irrespective of vote thereon at November, 1922, election, "California Veterans' Welfare Bond Act" as enacted by 1921 Legislature, authorizing ten million dollars State bonds to effectuate "California Veterans' Welfare Act," providing land settlement, and "Veterans' Farm and Home Purchase Act," providing farm and home aid, for veterans; declares section self-executing.

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Land Franchise Taxation Aug 1922

Land Franchise Taxation

Initiatives

LAND FRANCHISE TAXATION. Initiative measure amending Article XIII of Constitution. Abolishes present system of taxation; declares private property rights attach only to products of labor and not to land; defines franchises as special privileges granted by government permitting use or monopoly of land; requires that such franchises be assessed annually at their full rental value independent of improvements, and prohibits all other taxes and license fees; prescribe procedure for such assessments, decreeing forfeiture of franchise for non-payment thereof; requires that money derived from such assessments be apportioned between state and its subdivisions, and that all governmental expenses be paid therefrom.

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Veterans Aug 1922

Veterans

Initiatives

VETERANS' WELFARE BOND ACT. Initiative measure adding Section 4 to Article XVI of Constitution. Declares that the California Veterans' Welfare Bond Act of 1921 authorizing the issuance and sale of state bonds to carry on operations of Veterans' Welfare Board in aiding California veterans to secure farms and homes, enacted by the Legislature in 1921 and signed by Governor, is approved, validated and made effective without publication by Secretary of State or further submission to the people; declares provistions of section self-executing and legislative action in furtherance thereof unnecessary, but not prohibited.

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Osteopathic Act Jul 1922

Osteopathic Act

Initiatives

OSTEOPATHIC ACT. Initiative. Creates Board of Osteopathic Examiners appointed by Governor; prescribes powers and duties thereof; authorizes said Board in respect to graduates of osteopathic schools to carry out provisions of Medical Practice Act of 1913, and acts amendatory thereof, and issue to them any form of certificate authorized thereunder; confers upon said Board all functions relating to such graduates heretofore exercised by State Board of Medical Examiners; creates contingent fund from receipts under act, requiring compensation of members of Board, and of persons appointed thereby, and all expenses incurred under act, to be paid only therefrom.

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Initiative Jul 1922

Initiative

Initiatives

Initiative. Initiative measure amending Article IV, Section 1 of Constitution. Inserts proviso therein increasing the number of signatures of qualified electors necessary to initiative petition presented to Secretary of State under that section when such petition relates to assessment or collection of taxes, or provides for modification or repeal of this proviso; requires such number to be fifteen per cent of all votes cast for all gubernatorial candidates at last preceding election at which Governor was elected, instead of eight per cent thereof as now required. Makes no other substantial change in section.

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Legislative Districts Jul 1922

Legislative Districts

Initiatives

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS. Initiative measure amending section 6 of Article IV of Constitution. Declares that for purpose of choosing members of Legislature the State shall be divided into forty senatorial and eighty assembly districts, as nearly equal in population as may be and composed of contiguous territory, but no county or city and county to contain more than one senatorial district notwithstanding any resultant disparity in number of inhabitants residing therein; Federal census taken in 1920, and every ten years thereafter, to be basis of adjusting legislative districts. In other respects makes no change in present section.

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State Budget Feb 1922

State Budget

Initiatives

"State Budget. Initiative measure amending Section 34, and repealing Section 29, Article IV of Constitution. Requires Governor to submit to Legislature, within first thirty days of each regular session, budget containing itemized statement of all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for each fiscal year of next biennial period, with comparison, item by item, for each year of existing biennial period. Prescribes procedure for passage of budget bill; permits referendum against items thereof except those for usual current expenses; prohibits other appropriations, with certain exceptions, until such passage. Authorizes Governor to reduce or eliminate any item of appropriation."

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Water And Power Feb 1922

Water And Power

Initiatives

Water and Power: Initiative measure adding Article XIVa to Constitution. Creates board appointed by governor and subject to recall, chairman receiving fifteen thousand dollars annually, other members twenty dollars per day when acting. Authorizes issuance of bonds not exceeding $500,000,000. Empowers board to develop and distribute water and electric energy (giving state and political subdivisions preferential rights thereto), do anything convenient therefor, fix rates to meet cost thereof and retire bonds in fifty years, use state waters and lands, and require reservation of water from appropriation and, when necessary in board's opinion, public lands from sale.

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Local Taxation Jan 1922

Local Taxation

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 31 adding Section 12; to Article XIII of Constitution. Authorizes legislation, subject to initiative and referendum, for taxation of notes, debentures, shares of stock, bonds or mortgages, not exempt from taxation, in manner or at rate or in proportion to value different from other property, such taxes to be in lieu of all other property taxes, state, county, municipal or district, upon such property, and to be equitably distributed to the county, municipality or district wherein such property is taxed; declares taxation under Section 14 of same article unaffected hereby.

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Municipal Public Works Jan 1922

Municipal Public Works

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 29, adding Section 20 to Article XI of Constitution. Authorizes two or more municipalities to acquire or control by contract, public works for supplying inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone or other utility service, or other matter of common municipal concern, subject to approval by two-thirds of electors in each city if contract provides for bonded indebtedness, otherwise by majority thereof, and thereafter by legislature without alteration or amendment; declares these powers supplement present powers and do not limit those granted by constitution to state or its political subdivisions.

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Absent Voters Jan 1922

Absent Voters

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13, amending Section 1 of Article II of Constitution. Adds to present section proviso authorizing legislative provision permitting registered voters, absent from their voting precincts at any primary or general election because of occupation requiring travel or federal or state military or naval service, to vote in home precinct prior to election, or at any municipality within this state on election day, or at any place if engaged in such service, all votes cast elsewhere than in home precinct to be received by county clerk of home precinct within two weeks of election.

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School Districts Jan 1922

School Districts

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 32, adding Section 6 ½ to Article IX of Constitution. Declares nothing in Constitution shall forbid formation of school districts situated in more than one county or issuance of bonds by such districts under general laws; authorizes officers mentioned in such laws to levy and assess such taxes and perform all such other acts as may be prescribed therein for purpose of paying such bonds and carrying out other powers conferred upon such districts; all such bonds to be issued subject to limitations prescribed in Section 18 of same article.

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Osteopathic Act Jan 1922

Osteopathic Act

Propositions

Initiative. Creates Board of Osteopathic Examiners appointed by governor; prescribes powers and duties thereof; authorizes said board in respect to graduates of osteopathic schools to carry out provisions of Medical Practice Act of 1913, and acts amendatory thereof, and issue to them any form of certificate authorized thereunder; confers upon said board all functions relating to such graduates heretofore exercised by State Board of Medical Examiners; creates contingent fund from receipts under act, requiring compensation of members of board, and of persons appointed thereby, and all expenses incurred under act, to be paid only therefrom.

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Judges Pro Tempore Jan 1922

Judges Pro Tempore

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 34. Amends Section 8 of Article VI of Constitution by requiring that though the parties to any cause in the Superior Court, or their attorneys of record, may agree upon any member of the bar to try their cause as judge pro tempore, such judge must be first approved by the Superior Court in which he acts.

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Requires Compulsory Education Jan 1922

Requires Compulsory Education

Initiatives

Compulsory Education. Initiative measure adding section 6a to Article IX of Constitution. Declares that every parent or person in California having control, care or charge of any child in California between seven and sixteen years of age shall be required to send such child to the full time Public Day School for the full time for which the Public Schools of the City or School District in which such child resides are in session; excepts children who have resided in California less than three consecutive months, public grammar school graduates, and children excusable for physical or mental infirmity.

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Chiropractic Act Jan 1922

Chiropractic Act

Initiatives

CHIROPRACTIC ACT. Initiative. Regulates the practice and licensing of chiropractic; creates board of examiners; provides for appointment, tenure, compensation and duties of members; exempts employees from Civil Service; fixes educational requirements and other qualifications for licenses; provides for issuance, suspension and revocation of licenses; defines chiropractic; provides for investigation and approval of chiropractic schools; provides penalties for violations of act; creates examiners fund and provides for disbursements therefrom; provides for construction with state medical practice act, and repeals chiropractic initiative act of 1922 and other acts inconsistent herewith.

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