pay for the publication in all copies to be circulated in the district or districts wherein such candidate appears upon the official ballot.

Measure, time of going into effect.

Section 9. No ordinance, resolution or franchise passed by the legislative body of any city or town shall take effect before thirty days after its final passage and publication, except an ordinance calling a special election or necessary to the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, and not then unless it shall state in a separate section the reasons why it is thus necessary and unless it shall receive the affirmative vote of three-fourths of all the members elected to each branch of such legislative body taken by ayes and noes. If within said. thirty days a petition signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent. of the last preceding vote for all the candidates for governor within such municipality shall be filed with the city or town clerk or other election officer protesting against such ordinance or any part thereof taking effect, such ordinance or part thereof so protested against shall thereupon and thereby be suspended from taking effect and such legislative body shall immediately reconsider the same, and if the same be not repealed it shall forthwith publish the same as other ordinances are published, if no publication has theretofore been made, and shall submit the same to a vote of the qualified electors at the next general municipal election not held within sixty days after said petition is filed, or at a special election to be called thereafter by such legislative body for that purpose, and such ordinance or part thereof shall not take effect unless a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon at such election shall vote in favor thereof. If such petition be signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least ten per cent, but less than fifteen per cent. of the said last preceding vote for all candidates for governor, the legislative body shall submit such ordinance or part thereof to a vote of the qualified electors at the next ensuing general municipal election not held within sixty days after such petition is filed.

Ordinance or amendment submitted, by petition of 5 per cent. vote.

Section 10. Any proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment may be submitted to the legislative body of any city or town by petition therefor of qualified electors equal in number to at least five per cent of the last preceding vote for all candidates for governor within such municipality by filing the same with the city or town clerk or other election officer, and such proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment shall be

adopted, without alteration, by such legislative body within twenty days after such petition is filed, and if vetoed by the mayor, shall be passed over his veto within ten days after such veto, or the legislative body shall refer such proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment, in the form petitioned for, to the qualified electors at the next municipal election held not less than sixty days after such petition is filed. If such petition contain a request for a special election and is signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent. of the said last preceding for governor, the ordinance, charter or charter amendment thereby proposed shall be passed by the legislative body, without amendment or change, within twenty days after such petition shall be filed, and, if vetoed by the mayor, shall be passed over his veto within ten days after such veto, or such legislative body shall refer such proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment, in the form petitioned for, to the qualified electors at a special election which shall be called within said thirty days and held not less than sixty nor more than ninety days after such petition is filed, unless a special election for some other purpose or a general election is held within said period of time, in which case such proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment shall be submitted to a vote at such election. The legislative body shall cause such proposed ordinance, charter or charter amendment, as well as those referred to a vote under the preceding section, to be printed in pamphlet form and circulated as herein provided. Alternative ordinances, charter or charter amendments may be submitted at the same election and if two or more conflicting measures be approved by the people, then that one which receives the greatest number of affirmative votes shall be adopted in all particulars as to which there is a conflict.

Vote upon which petition is based.

Section 11. Provided, that in all municipalities where the voting precinct or precincts therein are not wholly within the corporate limits of such municipality, the vote upon which any petition is based, shall be the total vote cast in such municipality at the last preceding election for all candidates for mayor, if there be such office, and if not, then on the total first-choice votes cast in any such municipality for the candidate for commissioner receiving the highest number of votes, added to the total firstchoice votes, cast for all of his competitors for the same position. Local option.

Section 12. This act shall not apply to the provisions of the local option liquor laws providing methods of determining

whether the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be prohibited in any county, city, district, ward or precinct.

Petition, qualifications to sign.

Section 13. Every person who is a qualified elector may sign a petition. Any person who shall wilfully and knowingly circulate or cause to be circulated, or sign or procure to be signed, any petition bearing the name, device or motto of any person, organization, association, league or political party or purporting in anywise to be endorsed, approved or submitted by any person, organization, association, league or political party, without the consent, approval and authorization of such person, organization, association, league or political party, or any person signing any name other than his or her own to any petition or knowingly signing his or her name more than once for the same measure at one election, or who is not at the time of signing the same a qualified elector, or any officer or person who shall wilfully do, or with another or others conspire, or agree or confederate to do, any act or acts which shall hinder, delay or in anywise interfere with the calling, holding or conducting of any election permitted under the initiative and referendum powers reserved by the people in Section 1 of Article V. of the Constitution of the State of Colorado or of registering electors therefor or any officer who shall wilfully do any act or acts which shall confuse or tend to confuse the issues submitted or proposed to be submitted at any election, or shall refuse to submit any petition in the form presented for submission at any election, or any officer or person wilfully violating any provision or provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec. 2, Art. XIX, amended before this applies.

Section 14. The provisions of this act requiring publication of measures in pamphlet form shall not be in force as to such measures submitted to the electors of the state at large unless and until the method of publishing such measures not provided in Section 2 of Article XIX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado shall have been changed to permit such publication to be made as provided by law.

Approved May 8th, 1913 at 9:12 o'clock, P. M.

(Chapter 4, S. L. 1910.)

ELECTIONS.

PRIMARIES.

AN ACT

CONCERNING NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE AND FOR POLITICAL PARTY POSITIONS, AND CONCERNING AND REGULATING THE GOVERNMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND CONCERNING ELECTIONS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PUNISHING VIOLATIONS OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT, AND TO REPEAL ALL ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

Nominations by direct primary elections-Exceptions-Assembly

nominations-Certification.

Section 1.. That all political parties shall make all nominations for candidates for the United States Senate, members of the House of Representatives in Congress, all elective State, District, city, county, city and county, ward and precinct offices, members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Colorado, by direct primary elections, and the Secretary of State and county and city clerks in the several counties in Colorado are prohibited from placing on the official election ballot the name of any person as a candidate of any political party not nominated in accordance with the provisions of this act; Provided, That this act, except as hereinafter specifically provided for, shall not be held to apply to nominations for special elections for filling vacancies for unexpired terms, and shall not be held to refer to nominations to municipal offices of any "Incorporated Town," so denominated under the statutes of the State of Colorado, and shall not be held to apply to the selection of delegates to any national political assemblies or to the nomination of presidential electors; and Provided further, That all such last named nominations by political parties shall be made by assemblies of the several political parties, and delegates to assemblies of political parties shall be selected as specified by the rules and regulations of the respective political parties participating therein; and Provided further, That the certification of the due and proper nomination of candidates for presidential electors and for the several offices above referred to in "Incorporated Towns," and to fill vacancies shall be as respectively provided by law.

[For Nomination and Election of U. S. Senators see Pages 3-5.]

Political parties to have separate tickets-Political party defined -Assembly defined.

Sec. 2. Any political organization which, at the general election last preceding any primary election provided for in this act, was represented on the official ballot by either regular party candidates or by individual nominees only may, upon complying with the provisions of this act have a separate pri mary election ticket as a political party, if its candidate for Governor received ten per cent. of the total vote cast at such last preceding general election in this State; and any such political organization shall be a "political party," within the meaning of the term as used in this act. An assembly of a political party within the meaning of this act is an organized assemblage of voters or delegates representing such political party, organized in accordance with the rules and regulations of such political party.

This act effective Direct primary election, when and where held. Sec. 3. This Act shall be, and become effective for the nomination of candidates for election in November, 1912. A direct primary election to nominate candidates to be voted for at the general election in November, 1912, shall be held at the regular polling places in each precinct on the second Tuesday of September, 1912, and biennially thereafter, for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the succeeding general election. Every direct primary election other than the September primary election shall be held four weeks before the election for which candidates are to be nominated at such direct primary election. Candidates for nomination, how placed on ballot-Petition, con

tents of-Assembly candidates for nomination, shall be certified-Assembly officers to make affidavit-Assembly designations-Only one ballot allowed-All candidates receiving ten per cent. of assembly vote to be certifiedAssembly candidates to go on ballot in order of vote received-Assembly not to declare a nomination-Candidates must file written acceptance-Petition candidates to follow assembly candidates on ballot.

Sec. 4. All candidates for nominations to be made at any such primary election shall be placed on the direct primary ballot by petition or certificate of designation by assembly, as hereinafter provided.

No such petition shall contain the name of more than one person for the same office. Every such petition shall state the name of the office for which such person is a candidate, his name, postoffice, residence, and street number of residence, and