Sections
16 entriesSection 1Establishes counties as legal state subdivisions and requires uniform formation, consolidation, and boundary procedures, with majority voter approval in each affected county…Section 2Requires the Legislature to prescribe a uniform procedure for forming cities and to provide for city powers. Prohibits annexing a city to,…Section 3Allows a county or city to adopt, amend, revise, or repeal a charter by majority voter approval, effective upon filing with the…Section 4Requires county charters to provide a governing body of at least five members elected by district, at large, or at large with…Section 5Allows city charters to govern municipal affairs through ordinances that supersede inconsistent law, while leaving nonmunicipal matters subject to general law. Permits…Section 6Allows a county and all cities located within it to consolidate as a charter city and county when a statute provides the…Section 7Allows counties and cities to enact and enforce within their boundaries local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations. Limits that authority…Section 7.5Prohibits a legislatively proposed city or county ballot measure from applying differently within the jurisdiction based on local approval or specified vote…Section 8Allows the Legislature to authorize a county to perform municipal functions when a city within the county requests those services. Also allows…Section 9Allows a municipal corporation to establish, buy, and operate public works supplying light, water, power, heat, transportation, or communications inside or outside…Section 10Prohibits local government bodies from granting extra compensation after services are rendered or contracts are partly or fully performed, or paying claims…Section 11Prohibits the Legislature from delegating to private persons or bodies control over local improvements, money, property, taxes, assessments, or municipal functions. Allows…Section 12Allows the Legislature to prescribe procedures for presenting, considering, and enforcing claims against counties and cities and against their officers, agents, or…Section 13Defines specified local-government provisions governing power distribution, including supersession, as restatements of the Constitution immediately before the amendment, making no substantive change.…Section 14Prohibits a local government formed after the provision’s effective date and spanning all or part of at least two counties from levying…Section 15Requires net vehicle-license-fee revenue, excluding trailer-coach and mobilehome fees, from rates up to 0.65 percent of market value to be divided between…