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Oregon Right to Enforce Local Laws Initiative (2018)
| Oregon Right to Enforce Local Laws Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic County and municipal governance | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Right to Enforce Local Laws Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have added language to the Oregon Constitution to provide a right to local governments to enforce local laws designed to protect the "health, safety, and welfare... of natural persons, their local communities, and nature." These types of local laws would have been immune from preemption by state law, federal law, or international law.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article I, Oregon Constitution
The measure would have added a Section 47 to Article I of the Oregon Constitution.[1]
Path to the ballot
On September 22, 2015, the initiative was filed with the secretary of state's office. On March 3, 2016, a ballot title was certified for the initiative.
Mary Geddry and John G. Booker, the initiative's sponsors, sued then-Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins (D) in the 3rd Judicial District Court over the ballot title. On May 3, 2017, Judge Channing Bennett ruled in favor of the secretary of state, upholding the ballot title, and ordering the initiative to be reassigned for the 2018 election cycle. Secretary of State Dennis Richardson (R) appealed the ruling to the Oregon Court of Appeals.[1]
Petitioners were required to collect 117,578 valid signatures to get their initiative on the ballot. Signatures for initiatives needed to be submitted four months prior to the election on November 6, 2018, which was July 6, 2018.
Proponents of the measure did not submit signatures before the signature deadline.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oregon Secretary of State, "Right of Local Community Self-Government," accessed August 6, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, Telephone communication with Oregon Secretary of State's office, July 9, 2018.
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