Section 116.040

Title IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 116

Effective - 16 Jun 1999, 3 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  *116.040.  Initiative petition for law or constitutional amendment, form — clerical and technical errors to be disregarded, penalties for false signature. — The following shall be substantially the form of each page of each petition for any law or amendment to the Constitution of the state of Missouri proposed by the initiative:

County ..........................  

Page No. ........................

It is a class A misdemeanor punishable, notwithstanding the provisions of section 560.021, RSMo, to the contrary, for a term of imprisonment not to exceed one year in the county jail or a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars or both, for anyone to sign any initiative petition with any name other than his or her own, or knowingly to sign his or her name more than once for the same measure for the same election, or to sign a petition when such person knows he or she is not a registered voter.

INITIATIVE PETITION

To the Honorable .........., Secretary of State for the state of Missouri:

We, the undersigned, registered voters of the state of Missouri and .......... County (or city of St. Louis), respectfully order that the following proposed law (or amendment to the constitution) shall be submitted to the voters of the state of Missouri, for their approval or rejection, at the general election to be held on the ........ day of .........., ....., and each for himself or herself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a registered voter of the state of Missouri and ........ County (or city of St. Louis); my registered voting address and the name of the city, town or village in which I live are correctly written after my name.

Circulator's Affidavit

State Of Missouri,

County Of ....................

I, ..................., being first duly sworn, say (print or type names of signers)

REGISTERED VOTING

NAME          DATE          ADDRESS          ZIP          CONGR.          NAME

(Signature)   SIGNED   (Street)(City,        CODE       DIST.      (Printed

                                        Town or Village)                               or Typed)

(Here follow numbered lines for signers)

signed this page of the foregoing petition, and each of them signed his or her name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated his or her name, registered voting address and city, town or village correctly, and that each signer is a registered voter of the state of Missouri and .......... County.

                                              ..........................  

                                              Signature of Affiant

                                             (Person obtaining signatures)

                                  .........................

                                 Address of Affiant

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ...... day of ......., A.D.

                                         .............................

                                          Signature of Notary

                                          Address of Notary

Notary Public (Seal)

My commission expires ................................

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If this form is followed substantially and the requirements of section 116.050 and section 116.080 are met, it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors.  

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(L. 1980 S.B. 658, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 132, A.L. 1999 H.B. 676)

Effective 6-16-99

*This section was amended by H.B. 117, 2013.  Due to a delayed effective date, both versions of this section are printed here.