<P> Article Nine describes Counties and Municipal Corporations . Article Nine contains seven Sections concerning counties; home rule for counties and municipalities; intergovernmental relations; taxation power of county and municipal governments; limitation on local debt; revenue bonds and community improvement districts . </P> <P> Article Ten of the Constitution describes Amendments to the Constitution . This Article has only one Section with nine paragraphs discussing amendments . </P> <P> Article Eleven of the Constitution describes Miscellaneous Provisions . The Article contains one Section with six paragraphs discussing the continuation of officers, boards, commissions, and authorities; judicial review and the preservation of existing law (law prior to the creation and ratification of the Constitution of 1983); confirmation of proceedings of courts and administrative tribunals; the continuation of a number of amendments for the next four years following the 1983 constitution going into effect; special commissions created and the date when the constitution became effective . </P> <P> Article X of the Georgia Constitution provides provisions for changing the constitution . Specifically Paragraphs I, II, and IV deal with the subject . To amend the constitution or to begin a constitutional convention for the creation of a new document, such amendments must be proposed by the General Assembly, according to Paragraph I. Furthermore, such a proposal must originate as a resolution in either the Senate or the House of Representatives . Then, the "proposal by the convention to amend this Constitution or for a new Constitution shall be advertised, submitted to, and ratified by the people in the same manner provided for advertisement, submission, and ratification of proposals to amend the Constitution by the General Assembly," according to Paragraph IV . </P>

Georgia's constitution requires cities and towns to provide