- Event type: CREATE
Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
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Proposition Relative to the Seat of Government [File No. 89]
Section 1. The Legislature shall have no power to change or locate the seat of government of this State; but the question of the permanent location of the seat of government of the State shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the first general election held after five years from the date of the adoption of this Constitution. A majority of all the votes cast at said election upon said question shall be necessary to determine the permanent location of the seat of government for the State; and no place shall ever be the seat of government which shall not receive a majority of the votes cast on the matter. In case there shall be no choice of location at said first election, the Legislature shall at its first regular session after said first election, provide for submitting to the qualified electors of the State the question of choice of location between the three places for which the highest number of votes shall have been cast at the said first election. Said Legislature shall provide further, that in case there shall be no choice of location
at said election, the question of choice between the two places for which the highest number of votes shall have been east, shall be submitted in like manner to the qualified electors of the State at the next ensuing general election; provided, that until the seat of government shall have been permanently located as herein provided, the temporary location thereof shall remain at Salt Lake City.
Section 2. When the seat of government shall have been located, as herein provided, the location thereof shall not thereafter be changed, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the qualified electors of the State voting on that question, at a general election, at which the question of the location of the seat of government shall have been submitted by the Legislature. The Legislature shall make no appropriations or expenditures for capitol building or grounds until the seat of government shall have been permanently located and the public buildings are erected at the permanent capital, in pursuance of the law.
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- Proposition Relative to the Seat of Government [File No. 89] (introduced on 1895-03-16 14:00:00 - CREATE - e692670) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1895-03-16 14:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e692673) [view current proposal at this moment]