Proposition Summary

Submitted to electors by referendum. Declares unlawful all acts and omissions prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution and by the Volstead Act, adopting the penalties therein prescribed; vests state courts with jurisdiction and imposes upon prosecuting officers, grand juries, magistrates and peach officers, duty to enforce said laws; permits local enforcement of ordinances prohibiting the manufacture , sale, transportation or possession of intoxicating liquors; this act to conform, automatically, to changes in said federal laws.

Proposition Number

2

Year

1922

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 445076; A: 52.0; N: 411133; B: 48.0

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Referendum

Code Sections Affected

Added an act to enforce the provisions of U.S. Const. amend. XVIII and to prohibit all acts or omissions prohibited by the Volstead Act.

For Author

T. M. Wright, Assemblyman Forty-fourth District

Against Author

C. E. McLaughlin

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