Proportional representation amendment to Oregon constitution. Department of industry and public works amendment. Equal assessment and taxation and $300 exemption. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7, 1916 Single item veto amendment.* Art. V, Sec. 15a and 15b. Negro and mulatto suffrage amendment. Full rental value land tax and homemakers' loan fund amendment. For Pendleton normal school and ratifying location state institutions. Permitting manufacture and regulated sale four per cent malt liquors. Prohibition amendment forbidding importation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.* Art. I, Sec. 36-a. Rural credits amendment.* Art. XIa. State-wide tax and indebtedness limitation amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 11. SPECIAL ELECTION, JUNE 4, 1917 Authorizing ports to create limited indebtedness to encourage water transportation.* Art. XI, Sec. 9. Limiting number of bills introduced and increasing pay of legislators. Declaration against implied repeal of constitutional provisions by amendments thereto. Uniform tax classification amendment.* Art. I, Sec. 32; also Art. IX, Sec. 1. Requiring election city, town and state officers at same time.* Art. II, Sec. 14-a. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1918 Establishing and maintaining Southern and Eastern Oregon normal schools. SPECIAL ELECTION, JUNE 3, 1919 Six per cent county indebtedness for permanent roads amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. Industrial and reconstruction hospital amendment. State bond payment of irrigation and drainage district bond interest.* Art. XIb. Five million dollar reconstruction bonding amendment. Lieutenant governor constitutional amendment. "SPECIAL GENERAL" ELECTION, MAY 21, 1920 Extending eminent domain over roads and ways.* Art. I, Sec. 18. Limitation of four per cent state indebtedness for permanent roads.* Art. XI, Sec. 7. Restoring capital punishment.* Art. I, Secs. 37 and 38. Crook and Curry counties bonding amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 20. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2, 1920 Compulsory voting and registration. Regulating legislative sessions and the payment of legislators. Fixing term of certain county officers.* Art. VI, Sec. 6. Anti-compulsory vaccination. Fixing legal rate of interest in Oregon. Divided legislative session. SPECIAL ELECTION, JUNE 7, 1921 Legislative regulation and compensation amendment. World war veterans' state aid fund, constitutional amendment.* Art XIc. Emergency clause veto constitutional amendment.* Art. V, Sec. 15a. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7, 1922 Permitting Linn county tax levy to pay outstanding warrants.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. Permitting Linn and Benton counties to pay outstanding warrants.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. Single tax amendment. 1925 exposition tax amendment. Income tax amendment. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 1924 Voters' literacy amendment.* Art. II, Sec. 2. Public use and welfare amendment.* Art. I, Sec. 18. Bonus amendment.* Art. XI-c, Sec. 1. Workmen's compulsory compensation law for hazardous occupations. GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2, 1926 Klamath county bonding amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. Six per cent limitation amendment. Repeal of free negro and mulatto section.* Art. I, Sec. 35. Amendment prohibiting inheritance and income taxes. Recall amendment.* Art. II, Sec. 18. Curry county bonding or tax levy amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. Amendment relating to elections to fill vacancies in public offices.* Art. V, Sec. 16. Klamath and Clackamas county bonding amendment.* Art. XI, Sec. 10. AMENDMENTS INCORPORATED IN THE CONSTITUTION In chronological order of their adoption, with a statement June 2, 1902 ARTICLE IV-LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT Section 1. The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly. The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than 8 per cent of the legal voters shall be required to propose any measure by such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon. The second power is the referendum, and it may be ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety) either by the petition signed by 5 per cent of the legal voters, or by the legislative assembly, as other bills are enacted. Referendum petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not more than 90 days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislative assembly which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures referred to the people. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be had at the biennial regular general elections, except when the legislative assembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the people shall take effect and become the law when it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall be: "Be it enacted by the people of the state of Oregon." This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the legislative assembly of the right to introduce any measure. The whole number of votes cast for justice of the supreme court at the regular election last preceding the filing of any petition for the initiative or for the referendum shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be counted. Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be filed with the secretary of state, and in submitting the same to the people he, and all other officers, shall be guided by the general laws and the act submitting this amendment, until legislation shall be especially provided therefor.* *Adopted by the Twentieth Legislative Assembly. Adopted by the Twenty-first Legislative Assembly. Adopted by the people by vote of 62,024 for and 5,668 against. Majority for, 56,356. June 6, 1904 ARTICLE XII-STATE PRINTER Section 1. The legislative assembly of the state of Oregon is hereby empowered to provide by law for the election of a state printer, to provide for his compensation, and to prescribe his powers and duties.* *Proposed and adopted by the Twenty-first Legislative Assembly. Adopted by the Twenty-second Legislative Assembly. Adopted by the people, by vote of 45,334 for and 14,031 against. Majority for, 31,003. June 4, 1906 ARTICLE IV-LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT Section 1-a. The referendum may be demanded by the people against one or more items, sections, or parts of any act of the legislative assembly in the same manner in which such power may be exercised against a complete act. The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections, or parts of an act shall not delay the remainder of that act from becoming operative. The initiative and referendum powers reserved to the people by this constitution are hereby further reserved to the legal voters of every municipality and district, as to all local, special and municipal legislation, of every character, in or for their respective municipalities and districts. The manner of exercising said powers shall be prescribed by general laws, except that cities and towns may provide for the manner of exercising the initiative and referendum powers as to their municipal legislation. Not more than 10 per cent of the legal voters may be required to order the referendum nor more than 15 per cent to propose any measure, by the initiative, in any city or town.* *Proposed by initiative petition filed February 3, 1906. Adopted by the people by vote of 47,678 for and 16,735 against. Majority for, 30,943. The supreme court, in Rose v. Port of Portland, 82 Or. 547, has decided that there is no comma after the word "special," in the third sentence of this section, although a comma has been shown in some publications thereof. ARTICLE XII-STATE PRINTER Section 1. Laws may be enacted providing for the state printing and binding, and for the election or appointment of a state printer, who shall have had not less than 10 years' experience in the art of printing. The state printer shall receive such compensation as may from time to time be provided by law. Until such laws shall be enacted the state printer shall be elected and the printing done as heretofore provided by this constitution and the general laws.* *Proposed by initiative petition filed February 3, 1906. Adopted by vote of the people, 63,749 for and 9,571 against. Majority for, 54,178. The original section was first amended June 6, 1904, supra, and was again amended as here shown June 4, 1906. ARTICLE XVII-AMENDMENTS Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in either branch of the legislative assembly, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall, with the yeas and nays thereon, be entered in their journals and referred by the secretary of state to the people for their approval or rejection, at the next regular general election, except when the legislative assembly shall order a special election for that purpose. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereby become a part of this constitution. The votes for and against such amendment or amendments, severally, whether proposed by the legislative assembly or by initiative petition, shall be canvassed by the secretary of state in the presence of the governor, and if it shall appear to the governor that the majority of the votes cast at said election on said amendment or amendments, severally, are cast in favor thereof, it shall be his duty forthwith after such canvass, by his proclamation, to declare the said amendment or amendments, severally, having received said majority of votes, to have been adopted by the people of Oregon as part of the constitution thereof, and the same shall be in effect as a part of the constitution from the date of such proclamation. When two or more amendments shall be submitted in the manner aforesaid to the voters of this state, at the same election, they shall be so submitted that each amendment shall be voted on separately. No convention shall be called to amend or propose amendments to this constitution, or to propose a new constitution, unless the law providing for such convention shall first be approved by the people on a referendum vote at a regular general election. This article shall not be construed to impair the right of the people to amend this constitution by vote upon an initiative petition therefor.* *Proposed by initiative petition filed February 3, 1906. Adopted by the people by vote of 47,661 for and 18,751 against. Majority for, 28,910. ARTICLE XI—CORPORATIONS AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS Section 2. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but not be created by the legislative assembly by special laws. The legislative assembly shall not enact, amend, or repeal any charter or act of incorporation for any municipality, city or town. The legal voters of every city and town are hereby granted power to enact and amend their municipal charter, subject to the constitution and criminal laws of the state of Oregon.* *Proposed by initiative petition. Adopted by the people by vote of 52,567 for and 19,852 against. Majority for, 32,715. June 1, 1908 ARTICLE II-SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS Section 14. The regular general biennial election in Oregon for the year A. D. 1910 and thereafter shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. All officers except the governor, elected for a six-year term in 1904 or for a four-year term in 1906, or for a two-year term in 1908, shall continue to hold their respective offices until the first Monday in January, 1911; and all officers, except the governor, elected at any regular general biennial election after the adoption of this amendment, shall assume the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday in January following such election. All laws pertaining to the nomination of candidates, registration of voters, and all other things incident to the holding of the regular biennial election shall be enforced and be effected the same number of days before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November that they have heretofore been before the first Monday in June biennially, except as may hereafter be provided by law.* *Proposed by the legislative assembly (H. J. R. No. 7), filed February 23, 1907. Adopted by the people by vote of 65,728 for and 18,590 against. Majority for, 47,138. This supersedes the original section and had the effect of extending the term of office of the incumbents. See also section 14-a infra, adopted June 4, 1917. Section 16. In all elections authorized by this constitution until otherwise provided by law, the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, but provisions may be made by law for elections by equal proportional representation of all the voters for every office which is filled by the election of two or more persons whose official duties, rights and powers are equal and concurrent. Every qualified elector resident in his precinct and registered as may be required by law, may vote for one person under the title for each office. Provision may be made by law for the voter's direct or indirect expression of his first, second or additional choices among the candidates for any office. For an office which is filled by the election of one person it may be required by law that the person elected shall be the final choice of a majority of the electors voting for candidates for that office. These principles may be applied by law to nominations by political parties and organizations.* *Proposed by initiative petition filed January 30, 1908. Adopted by the people by vote of 48,868 for and 34,128 against. Majority for, 14,740. Section 18. Every public officer in Oregon is subject, as herein provided, to recall by the legal voters of the state or of the electoral district from which he is elected. There may be required 25 per cent, but not more, of the number of electors who voted in his district at the preceding election for justice of the supreme court to file their petition demanding his recall by the |