Dewey v. Jones

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Presiding Judge.

This appeal raises the question whether appellee, the Town of Maraña, may provide by ordinance that a referendum on a town ordinance be voted on at a special election. We agree with the trial court that it may.

Appellant’s argument is that because the state constitution, Ariz. Const, art. IV, Pt. 1, § 1(10), requires that state initiative and referendum petitions be voted on at the next “regular general election,” no town ordinance may provide for voting other than at regularly scheduled town elections. It is clear that this constitutional provision precludes…