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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of 1 2 the State of Iowa is proposed: 1 3 Section 11, unnumbered paragraph 1, Article I of the Con- 1 4 stitution of the State of Iowa, is amended to read as follows: 1 5 Alloffencesoffenses less than felony and in which the 1 6punishment does not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars, or1 7 maximum permissible imprisonmentfordoes not exceed thirty 1 8 days,shall be tried summarily beforea justice of the peace,1 9or otheran officer authorized by law, on information under 1 10 oath, without indictment, or the intervention of a grand jury, 1 11 saving to the defendant the right of appeal; and no person 1 12 shall be held to answer for any higher criminaloffence1 13 offense, unless on presentment or indictment by a grand jury, 1 14 except in cases arising in the army, or navy, or in the 1 15 militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public 1 16 danger. 1 17 Sec. 2. The foregoing proposed amendment to the 1 18 Constitution of the State of Iowa, having been adopted and 1 19 agreed to by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, 1996 Session, 1 20 thereafter duly published, and now adopted and agreed to by 1 21 the Seventy-seventh General Assembly in this Joint Resolution, 1 22 shall be submitted to the people of the State of Iowa at the 1 23 general election in November of the year nineteen hundred 1 24 ninety-eight in the manner required by the Constitution and 1 25 laws of the State of Iowa. 1 26 EXPLANATION 1 27 This Joint Resolution removes the $100 limitation on simple 1 28 misdemeanors currently in the state Constitution. The Joint 1 29 Resolution was approved by the 76th General Assembly as HJR 11 1 30 during the 1996 Session. If approved by the 77th General 1 31 Assembly during the 1997 or 1998 Session, the proposed 1 32 amendment will be submitted to the voters at the 1998 general 1 33 election. 1 34 LSB 1122DP 77 1 35 mk/cf/24
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