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that has grown up functionally. Since we have an express
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powers act for home rule counties, that really is one
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class the Legislature has treated as a class until now.
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DEAN FORDHAM: That is right.
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DR. LOEVY: Every other county is handled indi-
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vidually, so you really could take each individual county
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as a class.
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DEAN FORDHAM: But that carries the thing to
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the point it has lost its semantic content.
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DR. LOEVY: Of course, rule that out, and say
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the home rule counties are one class, the municipalities
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are a second class with a different set of express powers.
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When the code units come into existence, we will have a
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third class .
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Essentially if we adopted the status quo, we
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would have a three-class system, really a two-class system,
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a three-class system, one class would be your home rule
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charter governments, one class would be your code counties,
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and one class would be all the other rural counties. If
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we made everybody have home rule, we would have a two-class
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system.
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