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2020 Op. Mo. Att'y Gen. 1 (2020)

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                      ATTORNEY   GENERAL   OF MISSOURI
                               ERIC  SCHMITT
                               January 16, 2020

                                               OPINION   LETTER   NO.  1-2020

The Honorable  John R. Ashcroft
Missouri Secretary of State
James  C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West  Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101

Dear  Secretary Ashcroft:

      This opinion letter responds to your request dated January 6, 2020, for our
review under § 116.332, RSMo, of the sufficiency as to form of an initiative petition
to amend  Chapter 393, Revised Statutes of Missouri, submitted by James Owen,
version 1 (2020-142).

      We  approve the petition as to form, but § 116.332 gives the Secretary of
State final authority to approve or reject the petition. Therefore, our approval
of the form of the petition does not preclude you from rejecting the petition.

      Because our review of the petition is simply for the purpose of determining
sufficiency as to form, the fact that we do not reject the petition is not to be
construed  as a determination  that the petition is sufficient as to substance.
Likewise, because our review is mandated by statute, no action that we take with
respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or
of the objectives of its proponents, or the expression of any view respecting the
adequacy  or inadequacy of the petition generally.

                                          Very truly yours,




                                          ERIC  S. SCHMITT
                                          Attorney General
                                Supreme Court Building
                                  207 W. High Street
                                  P.O. Box 899                      OP-2020-0001
                                Jefferson City, MO 65102
                                Phone: (573) 751-3321
                                Fax: (573) 751-0774
                                  www.ago.mo.gov

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