Nevada § 295.009 - General requirements for state or local petition for initiative or referendum: Must embrace one subject; must include description of effect
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§ 295.009. General requirements for state or local petition for initiative or referendum: Must embrace one subject; must include description of effect
1. Each petition for initiative or referendum must: (a) Embrace but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and pertaining
thereto; and (b) Set forth, in not more than 200 words, a description of the effect of the initiative
or referendum if the initiative or referendum is approved by the voters. The description must appear on each signature page of the petition. 2. For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection 1, a petition for initiative or
referendum embraces but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and
pertaining thereto, if the parts of the proposed initiative or referendum are functionally
related and germane to each other in a way that provides sufficient notice of the
general subject of, and of the interests likely to be affected by, the proposed initiative
or referendum.
Source: official Nevada text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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