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on referendum under this section and, yet, by strict

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reading of the words, I am not sure it would be.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss.

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DELEGATE KOSS: Delegate Lord, I think you

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assumed our intention. Any law under the current Consti-

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tution which affects more than one county is referrable

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only as a public general law. It was our intention

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to continue that.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Lord, the intent was

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exactly the converse of what you suggested. The

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intent here was to have referendum locally only of a law

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applicable to one county only.

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If a law was applicable to anything more than

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one county, it would be referrable only under Section

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2.10 on a statewide basis.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Lord.

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DELEGATE LORD: Mr. President, maybe I had

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better address this guestion to you. Would this mean

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that if a law has some effect outside of one county that

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the only way that this law could be knocked out would

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be by statewide referendum?