ARTICLE XI. INITIATIVE AND RECALL


 Section 1. Initiative.

 (a) The people may enact laws and local ordinances and may repeal laws and
local ordinances, except appropriations, by initiative. An initiative petition shall contain
the full text of the proposed law or ordinance or the law or ordinance sought to be
repealed. If the petition applies to a law of the Virgin Islands, it shall be signed by at
least fifteen per cent of the qualified voters of each legislative district of the Virgin
Islands or by sixty per cent of the qualified voters of the Virgin Islands. If the petition
applies to a local ordinance, it shall be signed by at least fifteen per cent of the
qualified voters of the legislative district to which the petition applies.

 (b) An initiative petition shall be filed with the Senate or appropriate District
Assembly. The proposal contained in the initiative petition shall take effect in
accordance with its terms if adopted by the Senate or District Assembly within thirty
days of the filing of the petition. If the Senate or District Assembly fails to act on the
proposal within that period, the proposal shall be submitted to the voters at the next
regular general election.

 (c) An initiative with respect to a law of the Virgin Islands shall take effect in
accordance with its terms upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified voters
of the Virgin Islands voting on the question. An initiative with respect to a local
ordinance shall take effect in accordance with its terms upon the affirmative vote of a
majority of the qualified voters of the legislative district voting on the question.

 (d) An initiative may not be vetoed by the Governor or a mayor. An initiative
 adopted by the people may not be amended or repealed by the Senate or District
 Assembly in office when the initiative petition was filed or by the immediately
 succeeding Senate or District Assembly.

 Section 2. Recall.

 (a) Elected public officials and justices and judges of the courts of the Virgin
 Islands may be recalled by the qualified voters of the Virgin Islands. A recall petition
 shall identify the official sought to be recalled by name and office, state the grounds for
 recall, and be signed by at least thirty per cent of the persons qualified to vote for the
 office occupied by the official or, in the case of a justice or judge, by thirty per cent of
 the qualified voters of the Virgin Islands.

 (b) A special recall election, at which persons qualified to vote for the public
 official sought to be recalled may vote, shall be held within sixty days of the filing of the
 recall petition. An official shall be recalled upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of
 those voting on the question.