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once own it? I only point that up to say that as we

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attempt to define, there is an obvious omission here.

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There is no provision here where once the county or politic

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subdivision owns and acquires that it can get rid of it.

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We would have to put

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DR. LOEVY: If we adopted this lift, I would

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want the Committee to go over this with a fine toothcomb.

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The one thing I want to point out since this

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has come up here is, as your constitution now reads, what

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our constitution essentially now reads, is this first

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paragraph here which I have labeled Section 802. That's

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what our constitution now reads. All of these express

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powers are in the express powers act. In other words, if

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you wanted to change one of those express powers under

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the present constitution, the State Legislature could do

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it, and in doing it, would do it for all charter home

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rule counties. What we are doing, if we adopt this, I feel

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is taking a step backward, because what we are doing is

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taking what the Legislature can now change and rigidifying

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it into the constitution.

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When I realized that, this was another one of



 

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