GEORGIA CONSTITUTION OF 1945

(text as ratified by Georgia voters on Aug. 7, 1945)

ARTICLE XV.

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SECTION I.

 
Paragraph I. Uniform Systems of County and Municipal Government. The General Assembly shall provide for uniform systems of county and municipal government, and provide for optional plans of both, and shall provide for systems of initiative, referendum and recall in some of the plans for both county and municipal governments. The General Assembly shall provide a method by which a county or municipality may select one of the optional uniform systems or plans or reject any or all proposed systems or plans.

SECTION II.

Method of Submission. That when this amendment shall have been agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall be entered on their journals with the "ayes" and "nays" taken thereon and shall be published and submitted to the people for ratification or rejection as one single amendment to the Constitution at the next General Election in August, 1945, as provided by law. Those voting in favor of the ratification of the amendment herein proposed shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "for the amendment revising the Constitution." Those voting against the ratification of the amendment herein proposed shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "against the amendment revising the Constitution." If a majority of those voting vote for the amendment revising the Constitution when the results are certified to the Governor, he shall proclaim the amendment revising the Constitution of 1877 as the revised Constitution of Georgia.

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