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or the code approach?
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MR. MELVIN: The code approach doesn't require
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any structural changes, as I understand it.
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MR. MILES: That is my understanding. It is
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purely permissive.
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MR. MELVIN: Yes, your county, for example, if
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it adopted code home rule, wouldn't necessarily require
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that the County Commissioner structure be changed, would
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it, Dr. Loevy?
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DR. LOEVY: No, Under the code provision, as
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I understand it, the County Commissioners could decide
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their form of code home rule would be three County Commis-
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sioners; and then if the voters approved that at a refer-
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endum, automatically then would devolve on them all the
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express powers the State Legislature enacts if the code
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provision of the constitution is adopted, which means code
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counties -- as the constitution now reads, the Legislature
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could classify the code counties, but if they did what they
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did with the municipalities and have just one class, that
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means code counties will, in effect, become a classificatior
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opposed to and different from home rule counties as a
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