| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA c. 19 is enacted to read: |
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| | Subject to approval under section 1962, there are established | 8 county districts composed as follows: |
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| | 1.__County district 1.__County district 1 consists of York | County; |
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| | 2.__County district 2.__County district 2 consists of | Cumberland County; |
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| | 3.__County district 3.__County district 3 consists of | Androscoggin County, Oxford County and Franklin County; |
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| | 4.__County district 4.__County district 4 consists of Somerset | County and Kennebec County; |
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| | 5.__County district 5.__County district 5 consists of | Penobscot County and Piscataquis County; |
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| | 6.__County district 6.__County district 6 consists of | Sagadahoc County, Lincoln County, Knox County and Waldo County; |
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| | 7.__County district 7.__County district 7 consists of Hancock | County and Washington County; and |
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| | 8.__County district 8.__County district 8 consists of | Aroostook County. |
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| §1962.__Formation of or consolidation of counties into |
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| | 1.__County district approval.__A vote to determine the | approval of formation of a county district or consolidation of | counties into a county district may be initiated in the following | ways: |
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| A.__A majority of county commissioners of a county may | require the question of whether a county district should be | formed from the county or the counties in the proposed | county district should combine into one county district to | be put to the voters in that proposed county district; or |
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