Proposition Summary

Senate Constitutional Amendment 16. Adds Section 30 to Article XI of Constitution. Declares that the state, any county, city and county or municipality may acquire by eminent domain, title in fee simple to property in excess of that actually needed for use in an improvement, such property to be deemed acquired for a public use, and that the procedure for such acquisition and the use and sale, lease or other disposition thereof shall be prescribed by general law.

Proposition Number

25

Year

1918

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 138131; A: 37.7; N: 228324; B: 62.3

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Senate Constitutional Amendment

For Author

S. C. Evans, State Senator Thirty-ninth District; Lester G. Rulnett, State Senator Nineteenth District. 1922 Broadway, San Francisco

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