Section 6 AAC 25.240 - Initiative, referendum, and recall petitions(a) Upon certification of the application for a petition, the director will prepare petition booklets for circulation by petition circulators in the general manner prescribed by AS 15.45.090, 15.45.320, or 15.45.560. The director will prepare and have printed sequentially numbered official petition booklets as determined by the director to allow full circulation throughout the state or throughout the senate or house district that will be affected. The booklets will be sent, or otherwise made available for delivery, to a member of the initiative, referendum, or recall committee or the committee's designee for distribution to circulators. The committee or designee may request additional booklets. Upon the director's approval of the request, additional sequentially numbered booklets will be printed by the director and made available to committee or designee, or printed by the committee or designee in a format approved by the director. The committee or designee must pay the cost of printing additional booklets in excess of the initial booklets. If the committee or designee elects to have additional booklets printed, the first booklet from each additional printing shall be submitted to the director.(b) Each subscriber to the petition shall provide(1) the subscriber's printed name;(2) a numerical identifier that can be verified against the voter's record for that subscriber;(3) the subscriber's signature or mark;(4) the date of the subscriber's signature or mark; and(5) the subscriber's address.(c) All petition booklets must be filed together as a single instrument, and must be accompanied by a written statement signed by the submitting committee member or the committee's designee acknowledging the number of booklets included in the submission.(d) The initiative committee or the committee's designee may file the petition at any time before the close of business on the 365th day after the date that notice is given to the initiative committee that the petition booklets are ready for initial distribution. The referendum committee or the committee's designee may file the petition at any time before the close of business on the 90th day after the adjournment of the legislative session at which the act was passed. The recall committee or the committee's designee may file the petition at any time before the close of business on a date that is at least 180 days before the termination of the term of office of the state public official subject to recall. If the deadline for filing an initiative, referendum, or recall petition falls on a weekend or state holiday, the deadline is the close of business on the next regular business day for the division.(e) The petition must be filed in person, by mail, or other shipping method at any office of the division.(f) A petition that at the time of submission contains on its face an insufficient number of booklets or signed subscriber pages required for certification will be determined by the director to have a patent defect. The director will notify the committee, in writing, of the patent defect and provide information on resubmitting the petition, if applicable. A petition that contains a patent defect and that is filed (1) on the deadline specified in (d) of this section will be certified as insufficient;(2) before the deadline specified in (d) of this section will be declared incomplete and all petition booklets will be returned to the committee or designee for resubmission; the resubmitted petition must be filed by the deadline specified in (d) of this section.(g) The signatures contained in a petition booklet filed under (c) of this section will not be counted in determining the sufficiency of the petition if the person who circulated the petition did not complete the certification affidavit for the booklet as required by AS 15.45.130, 15.45.360, or 15.45.600.(h) An individual signature in a petition booklet will not be counted in determining the sufficiency of the petition if the signer (1) does not provide an address;(2) does not sign or make a mark;(3) does not provide a numerical identifier;(4) unknowingly signs the petition more than one time; any additional signature will not be counted; or(5) does not date the individual's signature. (k) Communication with the director shall be limited to the committee. A request for information must be made in writing.Eff. 8/6/87, Register 103; am 7/8/88, Register 107; am 7/17/88, Register 107; am 6/21/90, Register 115; am 8/12/90, Register 115; am 12/15/99, Register 153; am 8/13/2000, Register 155; am 8/22/2004, Register 171; am 5/14/2006, Register 178; am 4/25/2008, Register 186; am 2/28/2014, Register 209, April 2014; am 2/10/2018, Register 225, April 2018; am 2/24/2022, Register 241, April 2022Authority:AS 15.15.010
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