Iowa Code § 39.4

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Proclamation concerning revision of Constitution.

Official statutory text

(1) In the years in which the Constitution requires, or at other times when the general assembly by law provides for, a vote on the question of calling a convention and revising the Constitution, the governor shall at least sixty days before the general election issue a proclamation directing that at the general election there be proposed to the people the following question:Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and propose amendment or amendments to same?

(2) The question proposed pursuant to this section shall be considered a public measure for the purposes of sections 49.43 through 49.47.

[C97, §1061; SS15, §1061; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §507; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §39.4]2021 Acts, ch 147, §2, 54

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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