34-2201. ELECTION OF DELEGATES. Whenever the Congress of the United States has proposed, or shall hereafter propose, an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and proposes that it be ratified by conventions in the several states, the governor shall fix by proclamation the date of an election, subject to the provisions of section […]
34-2202. QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. At such election all persons qualified to vote for presidential electors shall be entitled to vote. History: [34-2202, added 1933, ch. 179, sec. 2, p. 328.]
34-2203. ASCERTAINMENT AND CERTIFICATION OF RESULTS — GENERAL ELECTION LAWS APPLICABLE. Except as in this act otherwise provided, such election shall be conducted and the results thereof ascertained and certified in the same manner as in the case of the election of presidential electors in this state, and all the provisions of the laws of […]
34-2204. NUMBER OF DELEGATES. The number of delegates to be chosen to such convention shall be twenty-one (21), to be elected from the state at large. History: [34-2204, added 1933, ch. 179, sec. 4, p. 328.]
34-2205. QUALIFICATIONS OF DELEGATES — NOMINATING PETITIONS — DECLARATIONS OF CANDIDATES AND SIGNERS — CERTIFICATION. Candidates for the office of delegate to the convention shall be qualified electors of the state of Idaho. Nomination shall be by petition and not otherwise. A single petition shall nominate but one (1) candidate, who may have one (1) […]
34-2206. BALLOTS. The election shall be by ballot, separate from any ballot to be used at the same election, which ballot shall be prepared as follows: It shall first state the substance of the proposed constitutional amendment. This shall be followed by appropriate instructions to the voter. It shall then contain perpendicular columns of equal […]
34-2207. RESULT OF ELECTION — VACANCIES, HOW FILLED. The twenty-one (21) candidates who shall receive respectively the highest numbers of the total number of votes cast at said election shall be the delegates to the convention. If there shall be a vacancy in the convention caused by the death or disability of any delegate or […]
34-2208. MEETING AND ORGANIZATION OF DELEGATES. The delegates to the convention shall meet and assemble in the house of representatives in the capitol at Boise, Idaho, on the twenty-eighth day after their election, at twelve (12) o’clock noon, and shall thereupon organize as, be and constitute a convention to pass upon the question of whether […]
34-2209. ORGANIZATIONAL POWERS OF CONVENTION. The convention shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members; and shall have the power to elect its president, secretary and other officers and/or employees and to adopt its own rules. History: [34-2209, added 1933, ch. 179, sec. 9, p. 328.]
34-2210. JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. The convention shall keep a journal of its proceedings in which shall be recorded the vote of each delegate on the question of ratification of the proposed amendment. Upon final adjournment the journal shall be certified to by the president and secretary of the convention and be filed with the secretary […]
34-2211. CERTIFICATE OF RATIFICATION. If the convention shall agree, by a vote of a majority of the total number of delegates, to the ratification of the proposed amendment, a certificate to that effect shall be executed by the president and secretary of the convention and transmitted to the secretary of state of this state, who […]
34-2212. NO COMPENSATION — EXPENSES, HOW ALLOWED. No delegate to a constitutional convention shall receive any compensation except that such delegate shall be paid his actual, necessary and reasonable expenses in traveling to and from and attendance at said convention. History: [34-2212, added 1933, ch. 179, sec. 12, p. 328.]
34-2213. EXPENSES, HOW PAID. All the expenses of the constitutional convention and the expenses allowed delegates thereto shall be allowed and paid by the state of Idaho in the same manner as other claims against the state are allowed and paid, and from such appropriations as are, or may be, available therefor. History: [34-2213, added […]
34-2214. FEDERAL STATUTE TO CONTROL. If at or about the time of submitting any such amendment, Congress shall either in the resolution submitting the same or by statute, prescribe the manner in which the conventions shall be constituted, and shall not except from the provisions of such statute or resolution such states as may theretofore […]
34-2215. SEPARABILITY. If any part or parts of sections 34-2201—34-2216 shall be adjudged by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not effect the validity of any part or parts thereof which can be given effect without the part or parts adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid. The legislature hereby declares that […]
34-2216. SHORT TITLE. This act, sections 34-2201—34-2216, may be cited as the "Constitutional Convention Act." History: [34-2216, added 1933, ch. 179, sec. 16, p. 328.]
