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PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 10 1 2 1 3 A JOINT RESOLUTION 1 4 1 5 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE 1 6 OF IOWA TO ELIMINATE THE LIMITATION ON FINES FOR 1 7 OFFENSES WHICH MAY BE SUMMARILY TRIED WITHOUT INDICTMENT. 1 8 1 9 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 10 1 11 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of 1 12 the State of Iowa is proposed: 1 13 Section 11, unnumbered paragraph 1, Article I of the Con- 1 14 stitution of the State of Iowa, is amended to read as follows: 1 15 Alloffencesoffenses less than felony and in which the 1 16punishment does not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars, or1 17 maximum permissible imprisonmentfordoes not exceed thirty 1 18 days,shall be tried summarily beforea justice of the peace,1 19or otheran officer authorized by law, on information under 1 20 oath, without indictment, or the intervention of a grand jury, 1 21 saving to the defendant the right of appeal; and no person 1 22 shall be held to answer for any higher criminaloffence1 23 offense, unless on presentment or indictment by a grand jury, 1 24 except in cases arising in the army, or navy, or in the 1 25 militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public 1 26 danger. 1 27 Sec. 2. The foregoing proposed amendment to the 1 28 Constitution of the State of Iowa, having been adopted and 1 29 agreed to by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, 1996 Session, 1 30 thereafter duly published, and now adopted and agreed to by 1 31 the Seventy-seventh General Assembly in this Joint Resolution, 1 32 shall be submitted to the people of the State of Iowa at the 1 33 general election in November of the year nineteen hundred 1 34 ninety-eight in the manner required by the Constitution and 1 35 laws of the State of Iowa. 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 RON J. CORBETT 2 5 Speaker of the House 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 MARY E. KRAMER 2 10 President of the Senate 2 11 2 12 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 13 is known as House Joint Resolution 10, Seventy-seventh General 2 14 Assembly. 2 15 2 16 2 17 2 18 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 19 Chief Clerk of the House
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