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AN ORDINANCE relating to initiatives; making technical corrections; and amending Ordinance 159, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.16.010.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 159, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.16.010 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
General requirements. Persons proposing initiative measures may, after compliance with ((Sections)) K.C.C. 1.16.040, 1.16.050 and 1.16.060, prepare blank petitions and cause them to be printed upon single sheets of white paper of good quality, ((nine and one)) eight and one-half inches in width and ((thirteen)) eleven inches in length, with a margin of one and three-quarters inches at the top for binding. Each petition shall consist of not more than five sheets with numbered lines for not more than twenty signatures on each sheet, with the prescribed title and form of petition on each sheet((,)) and, if appropriate under ((Section)) K.C.C. 1.16.080, a full, true and correct copy of the proposed measure referred to therein printed on the reverse side of the petition or on sheets of paper of like size and quality as the petition, firmly fastened together((; provided,)). ((w))Whenever possible, every initiative or referendum petition proposed shall be phrased in affirmative language so that a yes vote will clearly be a vote in favor of the proposition and a no vote will clearly be a vote in opposition to the proposition.