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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1972
Page
11
The text outlines proposed Amendment No 9 allowing state or local governments to exercise powers jointly or with other entities, with legislative oversight. It also references amendments to revise Article XVI and XVII, detailing sections to be amended or repealed and the timing of elections in Nebraska.
A proposed amendment repeals Article XV section 11 of the state constitution. The change acknowledges the Seventeenth Amendment and directs repeal at the May 1972 primary election. The measure retains no other provisions and targets the obsolete election clause for United States Senators.
The proposal would repeal obsolete language from the 1920 Constitutional Convention and define "members of the Legislature." It also removes language on elections and terms of office, repeals five sections, and marks provisions as obsolete.
The legislature proposes to remove donations by political subdivisions to railroads from the Constitution and move industrial development bond provisions between articles. It would keep railroad and internal improvement donation rules and transfer bond provisions from Article XV to Article XII, repealing Article XV section 16. The measure cites transfer of industrial development bonds and renewal of related sections.
Governments may authorize counties cities or villages to acquire own develop and lease land or buildings for manufacturing use and issue revenue bonds not general obligations. Property taxed while leased to private interests. Public purpose. condemnation not allowed. Bond principal and interest secured by lease revenue and mortgage. Article XV section 16 repealed.
Constitutional amendment clarifying militia provisions states no substantive change. Legislature may provide for personnel organization and discipline of the state militia per XIV section 1. Citizens vote yes or no to approve amendment.
Voters are asked to approve a constitutional amendment consolidating Article XII into a single section. It retains provisions for regulating corporations and stockholder voting moved to section 1 while deleting court suits and claims text. Legislature retains authority to enact laws on three subjects and repeals street railway municipal provisions.
The text proposes amending section 1 of Nebraska's constitution to regulate corporations and cooperative entities by general law, restrict special charters, require voting rights for shareholders in director elections, and allow stock ownership limits within mutual or cooperative bodies, with repeal of sections 2 through 6.
Legislative proposal to amend Article VI sets sections on who is an elector, arrest privilege for election attendees, and voting methods. It repeals section 4 and allows ballots or other means preserving ballot secrecy as authorized by the Legislature.
Proposed Amendment No 15 changes several election provisions. It would drop the six month state residency requirement for electors and let the Legislature set proper residency. It removes a military duty on election day. It clarifies authority to use voting machines or non paper voting methods. It retains current Article VI provisions.
Ballot amendment would let the state receive federal money for services to students in parochial and private schools, with no requirement to match public funds. A vote against preserves the current ban on using federal funds for such services by public school districts and bars state or local matching funds.
Be it enacted by the people forms a measure for a May 1972 primary election. It cites Section 11 of the Constitution limiting appropriation of public funds to schools owned or controlled by the state or political subdivision and requires public schools to be free of sectarian instruction. Continued on page 9.
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