Proposition Summary

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 35. Amends Constitution. Article VI, section 11. Declares Legislature shall provide for establishing a municipal court in any chartered city or city and county of over forty thousand inhabitants, and for the procedure, jurisdiction, number, term and qualifications of judges and attaches thereof; upon establishment thereof directs transfer thereto of all pending business, records, judges and attaches of Inferior courts; prohibits all other courts inferior to superior court within such city or city and county unless established by Legislature. Requires Legislature fix compensation of justices and judges of all courts of record.

Proposition Number

16

Year

1934

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 684598; A: 52.7; N: 614683; B: 47.3

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

Code Sections Affected

Amended Cal. Const. art. VI, section 11.

For Author

Percy G. West, Assemblyman, Ninth District; Charles W. Lyon, Assemblyman, Fifty-ninth District

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