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2-1-6.2. Filing petition prior to circulation--Collection and filing of signatures--Time limit--Affidavits. The petition as it is to be circulated for any initiative or initiated constitutional amendment shall contain the full text of the measure, the date of the general election at which the initiated law or initiated constitutional amendment is to be submitted, and the title and explanation as prepared by the attorney general, accompanied by the names and addresses of the petition sponsors and shall be filed with the secretary of state prior to circulation for signatures. The circulator shall provide to each person who signs the petition a copy of the explanation as prepared by the attorney general. The petition as it is to be circulated for a referred law shall contain the title of the referred law, the effective date of the referred law, and the date of the general election at which the referred law is to be submitted. The petition shall be accompanied by the names and addresses of the petition sponsors and shall be filed with the secretary of state prior to circulation for signatures. The signer's post office box number may be given in lieu of a street address if the signer lives within a municipality of the second or third class. The form of the petitions shall be prescribed by the State Board of Elections. For any initiated measure or initiated constitutional amendment petition, no signatures may be obtained more than twenty-four months preceding the general election that was designated at the time of filing of the full text. An initiative petition and an initiated constitutional amendment petition shall be filed with the secretary of state by the date set forth in § 2-1-2 or 2-1-2.1, as applicable. All sections of any petition filed under this chapter shall be filed with the secretary of state simultaneously together with a sworn affidavit on forms promulgated by the State Board of Elections, signed by two-thirds of the sponsors stating that the documents filed constitute the entire petition and to the best of their knowledge contain a sufficient number of signatures.

Source: SL 1989, ch 23, § 6; SL 1992, ch 110, § 2; SL 2000, ch 18, § 1; SL 2006, ch 67, § 2; SL 2007, ch 14, § 1; SL 2009, ch 64, § 5, eff. July 1, 2010.