Opinion of the Justices

460 A.2d 1341, 1982 Me. LEXIS 833
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine·Decided December 14, 1982·Published·Cited by 22 cases

Opinion

[1342]*1342To the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court:

By virtue of the authority conferred upon the Governor by the Constitution of Maine, Article VI, Section 3, and believing that the questions contained herein are important questions of law and that it is a solemn occasion,

I, Joseph E. Brennan, Governor of Maine, submit the following statement of facts and questions of law and respectfully ask the opinion of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court thereon:

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On December 22, 1981, 1,343 petitions, containing 39,214 valid signatures were delivered to the Secretary of State to initiate legislation entitled “AN ACT to Adjust Annually Individual Income Tax Laws to Eliminate Inflation-Induced Increases in Individual State Income Taxes.” The Secretary of State reviewed the petitions, deter[1343]*1343mined the initiative petitions to be valid, and transmitted the initiated bill on January 4,1982, to the 110th Maine Legislature. Because the 110th Maine Legislature failed to enact the measure, I proclaimed on April 22, 1982, that the measure would be submitted to the voters in a referendum election on November 2, 1982.

The question submitted to the voters, the form of which is attached as “Appendix A”

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