Title 34 — ELECTIONS

34-2201. Election of delegates. Whenever the Congress of the United States has proposed, or shall hereafter propose, an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and proposes that it be ratified by conventions in the several states, the governor shall fix by proclamatio…

34-2202. Qualifications of voters. At such election all persons qualified to vote for presidential electors shall be entitled to vote.

34-2203. Ascertainment and certification of results — General election laws applicable. Except as in this act otherwise provided, such election shall be conducted and the results thereof ascertained and certified in the same manner as in the case of the election of presidential e…

34-2204. Number of delegates. The number of delegates to be chosen to such convention shall be twenty-one (21), to be elected from the state at large.

34-2205. Qualifications of delegates — Nominating petitions — Declarations of candidates and signers — Certification. Candidates for the office of delegate to the convention shall be qualified electors of the state of Idaho. Nomination shall be by petition and not otherwise. A si…

34-2206. Ballots. The election shall be by ballot, separate from any ballot to be used at the same election, which ballot shall be prepared as follows: It shall first state the substance of the proposed constitutional amendment. This shall be followed by appropriate instructions …

34-2207. Result of election — Vacancies, how filled. The twenty-one (21) candidates who shall receive respectively the highest numbers of the total number of votes cast at said election shall be the delegates to the convention. If there shall be a vacancy in the convention caused…

34-2208. Meeting and organization of delegates. The delegates to the convention shall meet and assemble in the house of representatives in the capitol at Boise, Idaho, on the twenty-eighth day after their election, at twelve (12) o’clock noon, and shall thereupon organize as, be …

34-2209. Organizational powers of convention. The convention shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members; and shall have the power to elect its president, secretary and other officers and/or employees and to adopt its own rules.

34-2210. Journal of proceedings. The convention shall keep a journal of its proceedings in which shall be recorded the vote of each delegate on the question of ratification of the proposed amendment. Upon final adjournment the journal shall be certified to by the president and se…

34-2211. Certificate of ratification. If the convention shall agree, by a vote of a majority of the total number of delegates, to the ratification of the proposed amendment, a certificate to that effect shall be executed by the president and secretary of the convention and transm…

34-2212. No compensation — Expenses, how allowed. No delegate to a constitutional convention shall receive any compensation except that such delegate shall be paid his actual, necessary and reasonable expenses in traveling to and from and attendance at said convention.

34-2213. Expenses, how paid. All the expenses of the constitutional convention and the expenses allowed delegates thereto shall be allowed and paid by the state of Idaho in the same manner as other claims against the state are allowed and paid, and from such appropriations as are…

34-2214. Federal statute to control. If at or about the time of submitting any such amendment, Congress shall either in the resolution submitting the same or by statute, prescribe the manner in which the conventions shall be constituted, and shall not except from the provisions o…

34-2215. Separability. If any part or parts of sections 34-2201—34-2216 shall be adjudged by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not effect the validity of any part or parts thereof which can be given effect without the part or parts adjudged to be uncons…

34-2216. Short title. This act, sections 34-2201—34-2216, may be cited as the "Constitutional Convention Act."