Article XI.
Counties and Townships

Section 2. Cities of 20,000 Population May be Organized Into Separate Counties

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Local Government, Legislation Affecting

The legislature may provide by law for the creation, organization, administration, consolidation, division, and dissolution of local government units and their functions, for the change of boundaries thereof, for their officers, including qualifications for office, both elective and appointive, and for the transfer of county seats. No county boundary shall be changed or county seat transferred until approved by a majority of the voters of each county affected voting thereon.

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Cities of 20,000 Population May be Organized Into Separate Counties

The Legislature may organize any city into a separate county when it has attained a population of twenty thousand inhabitants, without reference to geographical extent, when a majority of the electors of the county in which such city may be situated, voting thereon, shall be in favor of separate organization.