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NRS 295.009 - General requirements for state or local petition for initiative or referendum: Must embrace one subject; must include description of effect.

NV Rev Stat § 295.009 (2019) (N/A)
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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.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 2837)

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NRS 295.009 - General requirements for state or local petition for initiative or referendum: Must embrace one subject; must include description of effect.