Legal Opinion
Campen v. Greiner
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 5, 1971No. Civ. 29380PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THE COURT.
Petitioners, electors and taxpayers of the City of San Jose, seek a writ of mandate to compel the City Clerk of the City of San Jose to remove from the ballot for the city’s election, to be held on April 13, 1971, an initiative measure repealing the city’s utility tax ordinance.
Petitioners contend that neither the initiative provisions of the California Constitution nor the initiative provisions of the city charter reserve to the electors of the City of San Jose the power to initiate and adopt an ordinance which repeals the utility usejrs’ tax, and that electors may not be…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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3Cited by28 opinions
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