19-231. Petition for election to request resignation of district judges
When there is filed with the secretary of state a petition signed by fifteen per cent of the electors of the judicial district as determined by the total number of votes cast for governor at the preceding election in the district, requesting the resignation of a United States district judge for the district of Arizona, the secretary of state shall submit to the electors at the next ensuing general election occurring not less than sixty days after the petition is filed, the question whether the electors request the resignation of the judge. The petition shall contain a statement of not more than two hundred words setting forth the reasons for the request. The judge against whom the petition is filed shall be immediately notified by the secretary of state of the filing, and there shall be printed upon the ballot the statement in the petition, and, at the request of the judge, a statement by him of not more than two hundred words.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 19 - Initiative, Referendum and Recall
§ 19-101 - Referendum petition; circulators; violation; classification
§ 19-101.01 - Legislative findings and intent; strict compliance
§ 19-102 - Initiative petition; circulators
§ 19-102.01 - Initiative petitions; standard of review
§ 19-111 - Number for petition; training materials
§ 19-111.01 - Text review; legislative council; recommendations
§ 19-112 - Signatures and verification; attachment
§ 19-113 - Withdrawal of petition signature; payment of remuneration; violation; classification
§ 19-114 - Prohibition on circulating petitions by certain persons; statement of organization
§ 19-114.01 - Prohibition on signing petition for profit; classification
§ 19-115 - Unlawful acts; violations; classification
§ 19-116 - Signing petitions; coercion; intimidation; false description; classification
§ 19-117 - Initiative and referendum petition; changes; applicability
§ 19-118 - Registered circulators; requirements; violation; classification; definition
§ 19-118.01 - Signature collection; prohibited payments; violation; classification
§ 19-119 - Deceptive mailings; civil penalty
§ 19-119.01 - Petition signature fraud; classification; list of prohibited persons
§ 19-119.02 - Initiative, referendum and recall handbook; secretary of state
§ 19-121 - Signature sheets; petitions; form; procedure for filing
§ 19-121.02 - Certification by county recorder
§ 19-121.03 - Judicial review of actions by county recorder; venue
§ 19-121.04 - Disposition of petitions by secretary of state
§ 19-121.05 - Special fund for reimbursement of county recorders
§ 19-123 - Publicity pamphlet; printing; distribution; public hearings
§ 19-124 - Arguments and analyses on measures; cost; submission at special election
§ 19-124.01 - Judicial information
§ 19-126 - Counting and canvassing votes; governor's proclamation
§ 19-127 - Preservation and publication of approved measures
§ 19-129 - Destroying, suppressing or filing false initiative or referendum petition; classification
§ 19-141 - Initiative and referendum in counties, cities and towns
§ 19-142 - Referendum petitions against municipal actions; emergency measures; zoning actions
§ 19-143 - Initiative petition in cities; action of council; amendment of charter
§ 19-161 - Challenges to legislative referenda
§ 19-201 - Officers subject to recall; number of petitioners
§ 19-201.01 - Legislative finding and intent; strict compliance
§ 19-202 - Recall petition; limitations; subsequent petition
§ 19-202.01 - Application for recall petition
§ 19-203 - Recall petition; contents; submission for verification; nonacceptance
§ 19-204.01 - Sample recall petitions; strict compliance
§ 19-205 - Signatures and verification
§ 19-205.01 - Registered circulators; requirements; violation; classification; definition
§ 19-205.02 - Prohibition on circulating of petitions by certain persons
§ 19-205.03 - Prohibition on signing petition for profit; classification
§ 19-205.04 - Withdrawal of petition signature; payment of remuneration; violation; classification
§ 19-206 - Coercion or other unlawful acts; violation; classification
§ 19-207 - Notice to officer; statement of defense
§ 19-208 - Resignation of person
§ 19-208.02 - Certification by county recorder
§ 19-208.03 - Disposition of petition; date of filing
§ 19-208.04 - Judicial review of actions by county recorder
§ 19-208.05 - Special fund for reimbursement of county recorders
§ 19-209 - Order for special recall election; officer in charge of election; definition
§ 19-210 - Reimbursement for county expenses in conducting special recall election
§ 19-212 - Nomination petition; form; filing
§ 19-213 - Form and contents of ballot
§ 19-214 - Recall election board; consolidation of precincts
§ 19-215 - General election laws applicable
§ 19-217 - Recall petition; changes; applicability
§ 19-221 - Statement on recall
§ 19-222 - Pledge to resign subject to recall
§ 19-231 - Petition for election to request resignation of district judges
§ 19-233 - Canvass of vote; effect of results
§ 19-234 - Recommendation of candidate by electors; filing by candidate of pledge to recall