Arizona Revised Statutes Title 19 - Initiative, Referendum And Recall
Chapter 1 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Article 1 Form of Petitions
Article 2 Circulation of Petitions and Signatures
- § 19-111 Number For Petition; Training Materials
A. A person or organization intending to propose a law or constitutional amendment by initiative petition or to file a referendum petition against a...
- § 19-111.01 Text Review; Legislative Council; Recommendations
A. At any time before filing an application for initiative petition or referendum petition and after filing a statement of organization pursuant to section...
- § 19-112 Signatures And Verification; Attachment
A. Every qualified elector signing a petition shall do so in the presence of the person who is circulating the petition and who is...
- § 19-113 Withdrawal Of Petition Signature; Payment Of Remuneration; Violation; Classification
A. A person who has signed a petition prescribed by statute for any candidate nomination, initiative, referendum or formation or modification of a county,...
- § 19-114 Prohibition On Circulating Petitions By Certain Persons; Statement Of Organization Or Exemption
A. No county recorder or justice of the peace and no person other than a person who is qualified to register to vote pursuant...
- § 19-114.01 Prohibition On Signing Petition For Profit; Classification
Any person who knowingly gives or receives money or any other thing of value for signing an initiative or referendum petition, excluding payments made...
- § 19-115 Unlawful Acts; Violations; Classification
A. Every qualified elector of the state may sign a referendum or initiative petition upon any measure which he is legally entitled to vote...
- § 19-116 Signing Petitions; Coercion; Intimidation; False Description; Classification
A. A person who knowingly coerces any other person by menace or threat, or threatens any other person to the effect that the other...
- § 19-117 Initiative And Referendum Petition; Changes; Applicability
Notwithstanding any other law, any change in the law or procedure adopted by a governing body with respect to circulation or filing of an...
- § 19-118 Registered Circulators; Requirements; Definition
A. All circulators who are not residents of this state and, for statewide ballot measures only, all paid circulators must register as circulators with...
- § 19-119 Deceptive Mailings; Civil Penalty
A. In an attempt to influence the outcome of an election held pursuant to this title, an individual or committee shall not deliver or...
- § 19-119.01 Petition Signature Fraud; Classification; List Of Prohibited Persons
A. For the purposes of this title, a person commits petition signature fraud if the person does either of the following with the intent...
Article 3 Filing of Petition and Election
- § 19-121 Signature Sheets; Petitions; Form; Procedure For Filing
A. Signature sheets filed shall: 1. Be in the form prescribed by law. 2. Have printed in their lower right-hand corner, on each side...
- § 19-121.01 Secretary Of State; Removal Of Petition And Ineligible Signatures; Facsimile Sheets; Random Sample; Presumption
A. Within twenty days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays, of the date of filing of an initiative or referendum petition and issuance...
- § 19-121.02 Certification By County Recorder
A. Within fifteen days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays, after receiving the facsimile signature sheets from the secretary of state pursuant to...
- § 19-121.03 Judicial Review Of Actions By County Recorder; Venue
A. If the county recorder fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of section 19-121.02, any citizen may apply, within five calendar days...
- § 19-121.04 Disposition Of Petitions By Secretary Of State
A. Within seventy-two hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays, after receipt of the facsimile signature sheets and the certification of each county...
- § 19-121.05 Special Fund For Reimbursement Of County Recorders
A. The secretary of state shall establish a separate fund from which he shall reimburse a county recorder for actual expenses incurred by the...
- § 19-122 Refusal Of Secretary Of State To File Petition Or Transmit Facsimiles Of Signature Sheets Or Affidavits Of Circulators; Writ Of Mandamus; Venue
A. If the secretary of state refuses to accept and file a petition for the initiative or referendum, or proposal for a constitutional amendment...
- § 19-123 Publicity Pamphlet; Printing; Distribution; Public Hearings
A. When the secretary of state is ordered by the legislature, or by petition under the initiative and referendum provisions of the constitution, to...
- § 19-124 Arguments And Analyses On Measures; Cost; Submission At Special Election
A. The person filing an initiative petition may at the same time file with the secretary of state an argument advocating the measure or...
- § 19-124.01 Judicial Information
Not later than sixty days preceding the regular primary election, the commission on judicial performance review shall prepare and file with the secretary of...
- § 19-125 Form Of Ballot
A. The secretary of state, at the time he transmits to the clerks of the boards of supervisors a certified copy of the name...
- § 19-126 Counting And Canvassing Votes; Governor's Proclamation
A. The votes on measures and proposed constitutional amendments shall be counted, canvassed and returned by the officers of the election boards as votes...
- § 19-127 Preservation And Publication Of Approved Measures
A. If a measure or proposed constitutional amendment, at the ensuing election, is approved by the people, the preserved copies with the sheets, signatures...
- § 19-129 Destroying, Suppressing Or Filing False Initiative Or Referendum Petition; Classification
A person filing an initiative or referendum petition or measure who, at the time of filing the petition or measure, knows it is falsely...
Article 4 Initiative and Referendum in Cities, Towns and Counties
Article 5 Challenges
Chapter 2 RECALL AND ADVISORY RECALL
Article 1 Petition and Election Procedures
- § 19-201 Officers Subject To Recall; Number Of Petitioners
A. Every public officer holding an elective office, either by election, appointment or retention, is subject to recall from such office by the qualified...
- § 19-201.01 Legislative Finding And Intent; Strict Compliance
The legislature recognizes that recall overturns the determination of the qualified electors and therefore finds and determines that strict compliance with the constitutional and...
- § 19-202 Recall Petition; Limitations; Subsequent Petition
A. A recall petition shall not be circulated against any officer until he has held office for six months, except that a petition may...
- § 19-202.01 Application For Recall Petition
A. A person or organization intending to file a recall petition, before causing the petition to be printed and circulated, shall submit an application...
- § 19-203 Recall Petition; Contents; Submission For Verification; Nonacceptance
A. A recall petition shall contain a general statement of not more than two hundred words stating the grounds of the demand for the...
- § 19-204 Form Of Petition
A. The caption and body of a recall petition shall be substantially as follows: Recall Petition We, the qualified electors of the electoral district...
- § 19-205 Signatures And Verification
A. Every qualified elector signing a petition for a recall election shall do so in the presence of the person who is circulating the...
- § 19-205.02 Prohibition On Circulating Of Petitions By Certain Persons
No county recorder or justice of the peace and no person other than a person who is qualified to register to vote pursuant to...
- § 19-205.03 Prohibition On Signing Petition For Profit; Classification
Any person who knowingly gives or receives money or any other thing of value for signing a recall petition, excluding payments made to a...
- § 19-206 Coercion Or Other Unlawful Acts; Classification
A. A person who knowingly induces or compels any other person, either directly or indirectly or by menace or threat that he will or...
- § 19-207 Notice To Officer; Statement Of Defense
Upon filing the petition as prescribed by section 19-208.03, subsection A, paragraph 1, the officer with whom it is filed shall within forty-eight hours,...
- § 19-208 Resignation Of Person
If a person against whom a recall petition is filed desires to resign, the person may do so by filing a written tender thereof...
- § 19-208.01 Certification Of Number Of Signatures
A. Within ten days after submission of a recall petition for verification of signatures pursuant to section 19-203, the receiving officer shall perform the...
- § 19-208.02 Certification By County Recorder
A. Within sixty days after receipt of the signature sheets from the receiving officer, the county recorder shall determine the number of signatures or...
- § 19-208.03 Disposition Of Petition; Date Of Filing
A. Within five days, excluding Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays, after the county recorders have certified the number of qualified signatures to a petition,...
- § 19-208.04 Judicial Review Of Actions By County Recorder
A. If the county recorder fails to comply with the provisions of section 19-208.02, any elector may apply, within ten calendar days after such...
- § 19-208.05 Special Fund For Reimbursement Of County Recorders
A. Receiving officers shall establish a separate fund from which county recorders shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred by county recorders for performance...
- § 19-209 Order For Special Recall Election
A. If the officer against whom a petition is filed does not resign within five days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays, after...
- § 19-210 Reimbursement For County Expenses In Conducting Special Recall Election
The political subdivision or district in which a public officer subject to recall serves shall reimburse the county for all expenses incurred in conducting...
- § 19-212 Nomination Petition; Form; Filing
A. Unless the officer otherwise requests in writing, the name of the officer against whom a recall petition is filed shall be placed as...
- § 19-213 Form And Contents Of Ballot
On the ballots for the election shall be printed the reasons as set forth in the petition for demanding the officer's recall, and, in...
- § 19-214 Recall Election Board; Consolidation Of Precincts
A. A recall election board shall consist of one inspector and two judges who, together with two clerks, shall be appointed for each precinct...
- § 19-215 General Election Laws Applicable
The powers and duties conferred or imposed by law upon boards of election, registration officers, canvassing boards and other public officials who conduct general...
- § 19-216 Election Results
A. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected for the remainder of the term and shall begin serving the...
- § 19-217 Recall Petition; Changes; Applicability
Notwithstanding any other law, any change in the law or procedure adopted by a governing body with respect to circulation or filing of recall...
Article 2 Members of Congress
- § 19-221 Statement On Recall
A. Prior to a primary or any election, a candidate for the office of United States senator, or representative in Congress, may file with...
- § 19-222 Pledge To Resign Subject To Recall
A. A United States senator or representative in Congress who has pledged himself to the people and under obligation to them to resign immediately...
Article 3 United States District Judges
Last modified: October 13, 2016