19-116. Signing petitions; coercion;
intimidation; false description; classification


A. A person who knowingly coerces any other person by menace or threat, or
threatens any other person to the effect that the other person will or may be injured in
his business, or discharged from employment, or that he will not be employed, to sign or
subscribe, or to refrain from signing or subscribing, his name to an initiative or
referendum petition, or, after signing or subscribing his name, to have his name taken
therefrom, is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.


B. A person who is a circulator of an initiative or referendum petition and who
induces any other person in the circulator's presence to sign the initiative or
referendum petition by knowingly misrepresenting the general subject matter of the
measure is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.