Section 1. Limitation of power to create counties

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Limitation of power to create counties

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Election Date: April 23, 1968

Votes For Ratification: 986855

Votes Against Ratification: 633323

Percent for Ratification: 61%

Percent Against Ratification: 39%

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Amendment Source: PA 1967 Question 4

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Limitation of power to create counties

No new county shall be established which shall reduce any county to less than four hundred square miles, or to less than twenty thousand inhabitants; nor shall any county be formed of less area, or containing a less population; nor shall any line thereof pass within ten miles of the new county seat of any county proposed to be divided.

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