Missouri Laws 116.334 – Petition approval required, procedure to obtain petition title or summary ..
1. If the petition form is approved, the secretary of state shall make a copy of the sample petition available on the secretary of state’s website. For a period of fifteen days after the petition is approved as to form, the secretary of state shall accept public comments regarding the proposed measure and provide copies of such comments upon request. Within twenty-three days of receipt of such approval, the secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to the attorney general a summary statement of the measure which shall be a concise statement not exceeding one hundred words. This statement shall be in the form of a question using language neither intentionally argumentative nor likely to create prejudice either for or against the proposed measure. The attorney general shall within ten days approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement.
2. Signatures obtained prior to the date the official ballot title is certified by the secretary of state shall not be counted.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 116.334
- General election: means the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years. See Missouri Laws 116.010
- Official ballot title: means the summary statement and fiscal note summary prepared for all statewide ballot measures in accordance with the provisions of this chapter which shall be placed on the ballot and, when applicable, shall be the petition title for initiative or referendum petitions. See Missouri Laws 116.010
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. Signatures for statutory initiative petitions shall be filed not later than six months prior to the general election during which the petition’s ballot measure is submitted for a vote, and shall also be collected not earlier than the day after the day upon which the previous general election was held.