Proposition Summary
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5. Adds enabling provision to Constitution authorizing Legislature to adopt wartime disaster laws, providing for filling offices of legislators r governor in case of death or disabling injury of one-fifth of legislators or incumbent governor; -for convening of general or extraordinary legislative sessions; for elections to fill vacant or temporarily-occupied offices, and for temporary location of state capital and county seats. Modifies existing constitutional provision regarding succession to governorship.
Proposition Number
7
Year
1958
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 3247586; A: 78.3; N: 902328; B: 21.7
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
Code Sections Affected
Added Cal. Const. art. IV, section 38. Amended Cal. Const. art. V, section 16.
For Author
Richard Richards, Senator, 38th Senatorial District Los Angeles County; Vernon Kilpatrick, Assemblyman, 55th Assembly District, Los Angeles County
Recommended Citation
GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS: WARTIME DISASTER California Proposition 7 (1958).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/593