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REFERENCE TITLE: charter cities; population threshold |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
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SCR 1037 |
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Introduced by Senator Wadsack
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A Concurrent Resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Arizona; amending article XIII, section 2, Constitution of Arizona; relating to charter cities.
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Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
1. Article XIII, section 2, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:
2. Charter; preparation and proposal by board of freeholders; ratification and approval; amendment
Section 2. Any city containing, now or hereafter, a population of more less than three thousand five hundred five hundred thousand persons may frame a charter for its own government consistent with, and subject to, the Constitution and the laws of the this state, in the following manner: A board of freeholders composed of fourteen qualified electors of said city may be elected at large by the qualified electors thereof of that city, at a general or special election, whose duty it shall be, within ninety days after such election, to prepare and propose a charter for such city. Such proposed charter shall be signed in duplicate by the members of such board, or a majority of them, and filed, one copy of said proposed charter with the chief executive officer of such city and the other with the county recorder of the county in which said city shall be situated. Such proposed charter shall then be published in one or more newspapers published, and of general circulation, within said city for at least twenty-one days if in a daily paper, or in three consecutive issues if in a weekly paper, and the first publication shall be made within twenty days after the completion of the proposed charter. Within thirty days, and not earlier than twenty days, after such publication, said proposed charter shall be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of said city at a general or special election. If a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify on the charter ratifies such proposed charter, it shall thereupon be submitted to the governor for his the governor's approval, and the governor shall approve it if it shall is not be in conflict with this Constitution or with the laws of the this state. Upon On such approval said charter shall become the organic law of such city and supersede any charter then existing (and all amendments thereto), and all ordinances inconsistent with said new charter. A copy of such charter, certified by the chief executive officer, and authenticated by the seal, of such city, together with a statement similarly certified and authenticated setting forth the submission of such charter to the electors and its ratification by them, shall, after the approval of such charter by the governor, shall be made in duplicate and filed, one copy in the office of the secretary of state and the other in the archives of the city after being recorded in the office of said county recorder. Thereafter all courts shall take judicial notice of said charter.
The charter so ratified may be amended by amendments proposed and submitted by the legislative authority of the city to the qualified electors thereof of the city (or by petition as hereinafter provided), at a general or special election, and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon on the amendments and approved by the governor as herein provided for the approval of the charter.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, no charter shall provide a city with any power to violate Article IX, section 25, which preempts such power.
2. The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.