Amendment No. 1151

Assembly Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 689 (BDR S-1760)

Proposed by: Committee on Judiciary

Amendment Box:

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:

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Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost

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Receded Not | Receded Not

Amend section 1, page 1, line 1, by deleting:

"3 and 4" and inserting:

"3, 4 and 5".

Amend section 1, page 3, line 7, by deleting "section." and inserting:

"section regardless of whether the public water system is required to comply with those provisions.".

Amend section 1, page 3, between lines 29 and 30, by inserting:

"Sec. 5. 1. This section becomes effective upon passage and approval.

2. Section 3 of this act becomes effective upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting regulations and on October 1, 1999, for all other purposes.

3. Sections 1, 2, 4 and 4.5 of this act become effective on October 1, 1999.

4. This act expires by limitation on January 1, 2001, if a majority of the voters voting on the question placed on the ballot pursuant to section 4.5 of this act vote affirmatively in all counties in which the measure was placed on the ballot.".

Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sections 2 and 3 as sections 4 and 5 and adding new sections designated sections 2 and 3, following section 1, to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. Assembly Bill No. 284 of this session is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section designated sec. 4.5, following sec. 4, to read as follows:

Sec. 4.5. At the general election on November 7, 2000, in each county whose population is 400,000 or more, an advisory question must be placed on the general election ballot in substantially the following form:

Should each public water system in this county that serves a population of 100,000 persons or more cease the fluoridation of the water?

Sec. 3. Section 3 of Assembly Bill No. 590 of this session is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 3. Section 5.020 of the charter of the City of North Las Vegas, being chapter 573, Statutes of Nevada 1971, as last amended by chapter 215, Statutes of Nevada 1997, at page 748, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 5.020 Primary municipal elections; declaration of candidacy.

1. The city council shall provide by ordinance for candidates for elective office to declare their candidacy and file the necessary documents. The seats for city councilmen must be designated by the numbers one through four which number must correspond with the wards the candidates for city councilmen will seek to represent. A candidate for the office of city councilman shall include in his declaration of candidacy the number of the ward which he seeks to represent. Each candidate for city council must be designated as a candidate for the city council seat that corresponds with the ward that he seeks to represent.

2. If for any general municipal election there are three or more candidates for the offices of mayor or municipal judge, or [five or more candidates for the office of councilman,] for a particular city council seat, a primary election for any such office must be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in May preceding the general election.

3. Except as otherwise provided in [subsections 4 and 5,] subsection 4, after the primary election, the names of the two candidates for mayor , [and] municipal judge and [the names of the four candidates for city councilman] each city council seat who receive the highest number of votes must be placed on the ballot for the general election.

4. If one of the candidates for mayor , [or] municipal judge or a city council seat receives a majority of the total votes cast for that office in the primary election, he shall be declared elected to office and his name must not appear on the ballot for the general election.

[5. If a candidate for city council receives votes equal to a majority of voters casting ballots in the primary election:

(a) He shall be declared elected to one of the open seats on the city council and his name must not appear on the ballot for the general election.

(b) Unless all the open seats were filled pursuant to paragraph (a), the names of those candidates who received the highest number of votes but did not receive a number of votes equal to a majority of the voters casting ballots in the primary election, not to exceed twice the number of candidates remaining to be elected, must be placed on the ballot for the general election.]".

Amend the title of the bill, fourth line, after "more;" by inserting:

"requiring an advisory question concerning the fluoridation of water to be placed on the general election ballot in a county whose population is 400,000 or more; amending Assembly Bill No. 590 of the 1999 Legislative Session clarifying that a candidate for the office of city councilman must include in his declaration of candidacy the number of the ward that he seeks to represent;".

Amend the summary of the bill, first line, by deleting "284" and inserting:

"284, Assembly Bill No. 590".