Opinion of the Justices

August 28,1996

Chief Justice Wathen

Associate Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court

205 Newbury Street

P.O. Box 368

Portland, ME 04112

To the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court:

This requests the advice of the Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court pursuant *662to Article VI, § 3 of the Maine Constitution. I seek your advice upon the solemn occasion of the convening of a Special Session of the Legislature and upon the important question of law as to whether the legislation I will submit at that Session will require a simple majority or a 2/3 vote of the Legislature in order to…