ARTICLE. 16. - Amendments.

Section 1

concurrent and consecutive amendments. 
 2. Convention
for revision of constitution: Procedure.
 Section 1.  Constitutional amendments: Procedure; concurrent and consecutive
amendments. 
 1.  Any amendment or amendments to this
Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or Assembly; and if the same shall
be agreed to by a Majority of all the members elected to each of the two houses,
such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their respective
journals, with the Yeas and Nays taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature
then next to be chosen, and shall be published for three months next preceding
the time of making such choice. And if in the Legislature next chosen as
aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a
majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of
the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people,
in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe; and if the
people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of
the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature voting thereon,
such amendment or amendments shall, unless precluded by subsection 2 or section
2 of article 19 of this constitution, become a part of the Constitution.
 2.  If, two or more amendments which affect
the same section of the constitution are ratified by the people pursuant to
this section at the same election:
 (a) If all can be given effect without
contradiction in substance, each shall become a part of the constitution.
 (b) If one or more contradict in substance the
other or others, that amendment which received the largest favorable vote, and
any other ratified amendment or amendments compatible with it, shall become a
part of the constitution.
 3.  If, after the proposal of an amendment,
another amendment is ratified pursuant to this section which affects the same
section of the constitution but is compatible with the proposed amendment, the
next legislature if it agrees to the proposed amendment shall submit such
proposal to the people as a further amendment to the amended section. If, after
the proposal of an amendment, another amendment is ratified pursuant to this
section which contradicts in substance the proposed amendment, such proposed
amendment shall not be submitted to the people.
 [Amended in 1972 and 1998. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1971 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1972 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1969,
p. 1728; Statutes of Nevada 1971,
p. 2265. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1997 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1998 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995,
p. 2949; Statutes of Nevada 1997,
p. 3592. A previous amendment to this section was approved and ratified by
the people at the 1886 general election, but no entry of the proposed amendment
had been made upon the journal of either house of the legislature, and such
omission was fatal to the adoption of the amendment. See: State ex rel.
Stevenson v. Tufly, 19 Nev. 391 (1887).]
Sec: 2.  Convention for revision of constitution: Procedure.  If
at any time the Legislature by a vote of two thirds of the Members elected to
each house, shall determine that it is necessary to cause a revision of this
entire Constitution they shall recommend to the electors at the next election
for Members of the Legislature, to vote for or against a convention, and if it
shall appear that a majority of the electors voting at such election, shall
have voted in favor of calling a Convention, the Legislature shall, at its next
session provide by law for calling a Convention to be holden within six months
after the passage of such law, and such Convention shall consist of a number of
Members not less than that of both branches of the Legislature. In determining
what is a majority of the electors voting at such election, reference shall be
had to the highest number of votes cast at such election for the candidates for
any office or on any question. 
 [An amendment to this section was approved and
ratified by the people at the 1886 general election, but no entry of the
proposed amendment had been made upon the journal of either house of the
legislature, and such omission was fatal to the adoption of the amendment. See:
State ex rel. Stevenson v. Tufly, 19 Nev. 391 (1887).]