2003 Assembly Joint Resolution 1
ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION
To create section 26 of article I of the constitution; relating to: the right to fish, hunt, trap, and take game (2nd consideration).
Whereas, the 2001 legislature in regular session considered a proposed amendment to the constitution in 2001 Senate Joint Resolution 2, which became 2001 Enrolled Resolution 16, and agreed to it by a majority of the members elected to each of the 2 houses, which proposed amendment reads as follows:
AJR1, s. 1
Section
1. Section 26 of article I of the constitution is created to read:
[Article I] Section 26. The people have the right to fish, hunt, trap, and take game subject only to reasonable restrictions as prescribed by law.
AJR1, s. 2
Section
2. Numbering of new provision. The new section 26 of article I of the constitution created in this joint resolution shall be designated by the next higher open whole section number in that article if, before the ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, any other ratified amendment has created a section 26 of article I of the constitution of this state. If one or more joint resolutions create a section 26 of article I simultaneously with the ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, the sections created shall be numbered and placed in a sequence so that the sections created by the joint resolution having the lowest enrolled joint resolution number have the numbers designated in that joint resolution and the sections created by the other joint resolutions have numbers that are in the same ascending order as are the numbers of the enrolled joint resolutions creating the sections.
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution is agreed to by the 2003 legislature; and, be it further
Resolved, That the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution be submitted to a vote of the people at the spring election to be held on April 1, 2003; and, be it further
Resolved, That the question concerning ratification of the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution be stated on the ballot as follows:
Question 1: "Right to fish, hunt, trap, and take game. Shall section 26 of article I of the constitution be created to provide that the people have the right to fish, hunt, trap, and take game subject only to reasonable restrictions as prescribed by law?"
