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DELEGATE HANSON: I like that answer, Mr. Chair-
man, so to make it perfectly clear for the record then,
this section would permit the General Assembly to adopt
either a single instrument of government for the counties
not adopting their own charter or it could also permit
the General Assembly to enact an optional forms act and pr
vide procedures for adoption of one of those forms by
counties.
DELEGATE MOSER: No. (Laughter.) I do not know
where the misunderstanding creeps in. I thought I tried
to be clear, sometimes I do lack clarity.
But what we intend, I will phrase it that way,
by the first, the second sentence is that the General
Assembly shall provide a choice of procedures.
At that point, this is the optional arrangement,
it means that they could provide if they wanted to a
series of charters to aid counties in adopting them.
They could have something that would be a con-
and so
tinuation after combined Executive and Legislative Rranch/