Long Beach City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia announced July 5 that the number of verified signatures filed by proponents relative to a Regulation of Medical Marijuana Businesses initiative has achieved sufficiency.
The petition contained 35,009 signatures. In order for the petition to be deemed sufficient, 24,909 valid signatures were required. That number is equal to 10 percent of the total registered voters in Long Beach (249,089), as reported by the Los Angeles County Clerk/Registrar Recorder on Jan. 12, 2016.
As provided by the California State Elections Code 9115(b), a measure can qualify via random sampling of petition signatures if the sampling projects a number of valid signatures 110 percent or greater of the required number. The medical marijuana initiative needed at least 27,402 (110 percent) projected valid signatures to qualify by random sampling. The petition had, on a projected basis, 28,436 (114.16 percent) valid signatures based on the random sample of signatures.
The city clerk certified the results Tuesday and will now prepare and present a certification of sufficiency report to the city council.
California State Elections Code Section 9215 provides that the city council must take one of the following actions within 10 days of the clerk’s certification of sufficiency: adopt the proposed ordinance, without alteration; submit the ordinance, without alteration, to the voters; or order a report at the meeting at which the certification of the petition is presented.
Source: LB city clerk’s office
