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                          HOUSE BILL 2372

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Campbell, Reams, Padden, Ballasiotes, Sheldon, Dyer, Conway and Finkbeiner

Read first time 01/14/94.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Prescribing the form for initiative and referendum petitions.

    AN ACT Relating to initiative and referendum petitions; and amending RCW 29.79.080.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 29.79.080 and 1982 c 116 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    The person proposing the measure shall print blank petitions upon single sheets of paper of good writing quality (including but not limited to newsprint) ((not less than eleven inches in width and not less than fourteen inches in length)).  Each sheet of the petition at the time of circulating, signing, and filing with the secretary of state shall ((consist of not more than one sheet)) contain columns with numbered lines for not more than twenty signatures, ((with)) the prescribed column headings, and the prescribed warning and title, and shall be in the form required by RCW 29.79.090, 29.79.100, or 29.79.110((, as now or hereafter amended, and)).  On the reverse side of each sheet shall ((have)) be printed a full, true, and correct copy of the proposed measure referred to therein ((printed on the reverse side of the petition)).

Each sheet of the petition shall be rectangular or square.  The portion of the petition devoted to the signatures of and information regarding petitioners and to the related column headings shall be a rectangle of not less than eight inches in width and eleven inches in length and two adjacent sides of this rectangle shall rest against two adjacent sides of the petition sheet.  The word "warning" and warning statement and the petition statement required by RCW 29.79.090, 29.79.100, or 29.79.110 shall be printed immediately above this rectangle.  Any material printed on such a petition sheet must be printed in a type size of not less than seven characters per inch.

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