Myers v. Patterson

Opinion

SMITH, J.

The Elections Code requires that proponents of city initiative measures publish and file a “notice of intention” before circulating a signature petition (§§ 4002-4003) and that each section of the circulated petition bear a copy of the notice (§ 4004). (All statutory references will be to the Elections Code unless noted otherwise.)

Plaintiffs, proponents of a commercial rent control ordinance they sought to place on the November 1986 ballot in the City and County of San Francisco (city), failed to include the notice on their petition, and defendant Jay Patterson, the city’s…