Bill Text: MS HC11 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitution; amend to authorize the Legislature to grant certain authority for metropolitan governmental creation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Failed) 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee [HC11 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2018-HC11-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2018 Regular Session
To: Constitution
By: Representative Snowden
House Concurrent Resolution 11
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890 TO REQUIRE THE LEGISLATURE TO ENACT GENERAL LAWS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ENACTMENT OF LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS, WHICH AUTHORIZE AND PRESCRIBE THE MANNER AND PROCEDURE BY WHICH COUNTIES AND CITIES MAY MERGE AND CONSOLIDATE TO FORM A METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the qualified electors of the state:
Amend the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 by creating a new section to read as follows:
"Section ___. The
Legislature, by general law applicable to all counties and municipalities,
shall enact legislation and, by local and private law, may enact legislation
from time to time, authorizing and prescribing the manner and procedure by
which an incorporated municipality may merge and consolidate with one or more
other incorporated municipalities located within the same county, or may merge
and consolidate with the county, or may merge and consolidate both with the
county and with one or more other incorporated municipalities located within
the same county to form a metropolitan government. The legislation * * * must prescribe the powers and
duties that may be exercised by a metropolitan government and its governing
authorities including, but not limited to, powers and duties relating to
taxation and finance, and * * *shall must prescribe the number, qualifications and
manner of selecting the governing authorities and other public officials of the
metropolitan government. Any legislation authorizing the establishment of a
metropolitan government may require that the various county offices and county
officials as elsewhere provided for in this Constitution be maintained and
continue to exist or may provide for the abolishment of those offices and
officials and the establishment of different offices and officials for the
metropolitan government."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2018, as provided by Section 273 of the Constitution and by general law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment for the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment requires the Legislature to enact general law and permits the Legislature to enact local and private law prescribing the manner and procedure by which counties and cities may merge and consolidate to form a metropolitan government."
