Secretary of State No.
1944-a-1
Description
ALIENS and PERSONS OF INELIGIBLE ANCESTRY. Initiative. Amends Alien Property Initiative Act of 1920 as amended. Prohibits persons ineligible to citizenship and persons of Japanese ancestry or other ancestry ineligible to citizenship under United States naturalization laws who owe any foreign allegiance from acquiring, possession, leasing, enjoying, chartering or transferring real property or watercraft or any interest therein. Property acquired contrary to act escheats to State. Regulates burden of proof of defendant's eligibility in cases under act. Engaging in prohibited transactions with ineligible aliens or persons of designated ancestry declared penal offense. Makes annual appropriation for enforcement of act.
Date
1-1-1944
Document Type
Initiative
Qualified
Failed to Qualify
Recommended Citation
Aliens and Persons of Ineligible Ancestry California Initiative 1944-a-1 (1944).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_inits/137