A.R.S. § 19-102.01

Initiative petitions; standard of review

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Vince Leach v. Katie Hobbs (2021)

Most recently applied in Leibsohn v. hobbs/voters Right to Know (September 2022)

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A. Constitutional and statutory requirements for statewide initiative measures must be strictly construed and persons using the initiative process must strictly comply with those constitutional and statutory requirements.

B. The secretary of state shall make available a sample initiative petition that strictly complies with the requirements of section 19-121. Any committee that uses the sample initiative petition provided by the secretary of state shall be presumed to have strictly complied with the requirements of section 19-121.

Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.