Proposition Summary

Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5. Adds enabling provision to Constitution authorizing Legislature to adopt wartime disaster laws, providing for filling offices of legislators r governor in case of death or disabling injury of one-fifth of legislators or incumbent governor; -for convening of general or extraordinary legislative sessions; for elections to fill vacant or temporarily-occupied offices, and for temporary location of state capital and county seats. Modifies existing constitutional provision regarding succession to governorship.

Proposition Number

7

Year

1958

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 3247586; A: 78.3; N: 902328; B: 21.7

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

Code Sections Affected

Added Cal. Const. art. IV, section 38. Amended Cal. Const. art. V, section 16.

For Author

Richard Richards, Senator, 38th Senatorial District Los Angeles County; Vernon Kilpatrick, Assemblyman, 55th Assembly District, Los Angeles County

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