To: [aaron r p] at [netcom.com]
Subject: Proposition files
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 22:40:18 +45722824
From: aphrael <[a--r--l] at [cats.ucsc.edu]>

I'm sending each proposition under a seperate piece of
mail since they're typed in seperate files ;=)

Proposition 168.
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This amendment proposed by Assembly Constitutional
Amendment 17 (Statutes of 1992, Resolution Chapter 109)
expressly amends the Constitution by amending sections
thereof; therefore, existing provisions proposed to be
deleted are marked by curly brackets, and new provisions
proposed to be added are marked by asterisks.


PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XXIV, SECTION 1.

SECTION 1.	{No low rent housing project shall
hereafted be developed, constructed, or acquired in any
manner by any State public body until, a majority of the
qualified electors of the city, town, or county, as the
case may be, in which it is proposed to develop,
construct, or acquire the same, voting upon such issue,
approve such project by voting in favor thereof at an
election to be held for that purpose, or at any general
or special election.}

	*(a) Before one or more state public bodies
develp, construct, or acquire a low rent housing project,
the state public body shall provide public notice
pursuant to standards adopted by the Legislature
governing notice for adoption of ordinances or other
official actions of the proposed development,
construction, or acquisaition. The proposed development,
construction, or acquisition shall only be subject to
election in the manner prescribed in this section.
	If a low rent housing project is proposed to be located 
in a city, city and county, or the unincorporated territory of a 
county or areas thereof, the state public body providing notice 
shall specify in the public notice the unincorporated territory 
of the county, or of any city and county, it determines will 
incur a significant negative  impact with reard to revenues of 
the city, city and county, or county, and with regard to the 
physical appearance of the surrounding community as a result of 
the proposed low rent housing project.

	(b) An election on the proposed low rent housing project 
shall be held if a petition signed by electors fo the city, city 
and county, or the unincorporated territory of the county or 
areas thereof specified in the public notice, equal in number to 
at least the percentage of signatures of registered voters 
required by statute to qualify a local referendum measure for the 
ballot within the city, city and county, or unincorporated 
territory of the county or areas thereof at the last 
gubernatorial election for all candidates for Governor, is 
submitted to the clerk of the legislative body of the city, 
county, or city and county within 30 days of the date of the 
first approval by the state public body of the development, 
construction, or acquisition of the low rent housing project. If 
a majority of the electors of the city, city and county, or 
unincorporated territory of the county or areas thereof voting on 
the issue reject the proposed development, constructio, or 
acquisition of the low rent housing project, the state public 
body shall not proceed with the proposed assistance to the 
project. If an election is not held pursuant to this section, or 
if held, the proposed development, construction, or acquisition is 
not rejected, the state public body may proceed with the 
development, construction, ora cquisition of the low rent housing 
project, and the development, construction, or acquisition of the 
project shall not be held to further election.

	(c)* For the purposes of this {Article} *article* the 
term "low rent housing project" shall mean any development 
*consisting of 16 or more housing units in a rural area or 24 or 
more housing units in an urban area* composed of {urban or rural} 
dwellings, apartments, or other living accomodations for persons 
of low income, *which is owned by a state public body and 
recieves an ad valorem property tax exemption not substantially 
reimbursed to all taxing agencies and which is eithe* financed 
*with loans or grants* in whole or in part by the {Federal 
Government or a State public body} *federal government* or to 
which the {Federal Government or State public body} *federal 
government* extends assistance by suppying all or part of the 
labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. For 
the purpose of this {Article} *article* only there shall be 
excluded from the term "low rent housing project" any {such} 
project where there shall be in existence ofn the effective date 
hereof, a contract for financial assistance between any state 
public body and the {Federal Government} *federal government* in 
respect to {such} *that* project *and any project whose operation 
does not have a significant negative impact on the revenues of 
the city, county, or city and county in which it is located and 
whose physical appearance does not have a significant impact on 
the surrounding community.

	(d)* For the purposes of this {Article} *article* only 
"persons of low income" shall mean persons or families who lack 
the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the 
state public body developing, constructing, or acquiring the 
housing project) to enable them, without financial assistance, to 
live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without 
overcrowding.

	*(e)* For the purposes of this{Article} *article* the 
term "state public body" shall mean this State, or any city, city 
and county, county, district, authority, agency, or any other 
subdivision or public body of this State.

	*(f)* For the purpoes of this {Article} *article* the 
term {"Federal Government"} *federal government* shall mean the 
United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality, 
corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

	*(g) Any proposal to develop, construct, or acquire low 
rent housing projects that was approved by the electors of a 
city, town, or county on or before November 3, 1992, pursuant to 
this article as it read on that data, and any low rent housing 
projects developed, constructed, or acquired pursuant to that 
approval, shall not be deemed to be invalid or superseded by the 
amendments to this article enacted on November 3, 1992, whether 
or not the approval is relied upon before or after November 3, 
1992.

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Source: Page 39 of the California Ballot Pamphlet for the 
November 2, 1993, Special Statewide Election.
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