Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Barren v. Brown

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1977No. 77-722PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Per curiam

B. C. 3519.01 states that:

“Whoever seeks to propose a law or constitutional amendment by initiative petition or to file a referendum petition against any law, section, or item in any law shall by a written petition signed by one hundred qualified electors submit such proposed law, constitutional amendment, or measure to ■ be referred and a summary of it to the attorney general for examination. If in the opinion of the attorney general the summary is a fair and truthful statement of the proposed law, constitutional amendment, or measure to be referred, he shall so certify. * * *”

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State ex rel. Riffe v. BrownOhio Supreme Court · 1977

3Cited by10 opinions

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