Arizona Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, Petitioners/appellants v. City Of…

Summary

The court affirmed the decisions allowing the Building a Better Phoenix Act initiative to appear on the August 2019 ballot. It held that the statutory ban on signature-based compensation applies only to statewide initiatives and referenda, not local measures. It also held that the initiative's 100-word description was not fraudulent or sufficiently misleading to invalidate the petition.