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the General Assembly act the whole thing.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Grant.

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DELEGATE GRANT: Delegate Miller, the procedure

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is Article 23A. That is the Code. In other words, there is

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a whole section in the Code. The problem is the whole

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section of the Code, the authority for it is Section HE of

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the Constitution; because of the fact the Constitution goes

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out of existence, this would mean that there would be no

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authority to implement that section of the Code, although

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all the procedures set out in the Code continue in effect.

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The authority to do so does not.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Miller.

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DELEGATE B. MILLER: I hate to belabor this point

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but I thought when we wrote it in the Local Government

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Article we said the General Assembly shall have the power

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over the municipalities and it 'seems to me that we ought

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to leave it that way and let the General Assembly act. I

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don't see any reason for this, or I would like to understand

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it.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Grant.

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DELEGATE GRANT: First of all, the General