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CONSTITUTION-VII - ARTICLE VII LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Article VII § 1...§ 34)

• Article VII § 1 - Counties; corporate character, powers and immunities.
• Article VII § 2 - County charters.
• Article VII § 3 - Reduction of size of county.
• Article VII § 4 - County officers; terms, combination.
• Article VII § 5 - Offices at county seat.
• Article VII § 6 - Sheriffs; security, responsibility for acts, ineligibility for other office.
• Article VII § 7 - Boards of supervisors; members.
• Article VII § 8 - Legislative, administrative, and other powers and duties of boards.
• Article VII § 9 - Compensation of county officers.
• Article VII § 10 - Removal of county seat.
• Article VII § 11 - Indebtedness, limitation.
• Article VII § 12 - Navigable streams, permission to bridge or dam.
• Article VII § 13 - Consolidation of counties, approval by electors.
• Article VII § 14 - Organization and consolidation of townships.
• Article VII § 15 - County intervention in public utility service and rate proceedings.
• Article VII § 16 - Highways, bridges, culverts, airports; road tax limitation.
• Article VII § 17 - Townships; corporate character, powers and immunities.
• Article VII § 18 - Township officers; term, powers and duties.
• Article VII § 19 - Township public utility franchises.
• Article VII § 20 - Townships, dissolution; villages as cities.
• Article VII § 21 - Cities and villages; incorporation, taxes, indebtedness.
• Article VII § 22 - Charters, resolutions, ordinances; enumeration of powers.
• Article VII § 23 - Parks, boulevards, cemeteries, hospitals.
• Article VII § 24 - Public service facilities.
• Article VII § 25 - Public utilities; acquisition, franchises, sale.
• Article VII § 26 - Cities and villages, loan of credit.
• Article VII § 27 - Metropolitan governments and authorities.
• Article VII § 28 - Governmental functions and powers; joint administration, costs and credits, transfers.
• Article VII § 29 - Highways, streets, alleys, public places; control, use by public utilities.
• Article VII § 30 - Franchises and licenses, duration.
• Article VII § 31 - Vacation or alteration of roads, streets, alleys, public places.
• Article VII § 32 - Budgets, public hearing.
• Article VII § 33 - Removal of elected officers.
• Article VII § 34 - Construction of constitution and law concerning counties, townships, cities, villages.