Ky. Const. art. I, § 33
Ky. Const. § 33
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Section 33 Senatorial and Representative districts.
The first General Assembly after the adoption of this Constitution shall divide the
State into thirty-eight Senatorial Districts, and one hundred Representative Districts, as
nearly equal in population as may be without dividing any county, except where a county
may include more than one district, which districts shall constitute the Senatorial and
Representative Districts for ten years. Not more than two counties shall be joined together
to form a Representative District: Provided, In doing so the principle requiring every
district to be as nearly equal in population as may be shall not be violated. At the
expiration of that time, the General Assembly shall then, and every ten years thereafter,
redistrict the State according to this rule, and for the purposes expressed in this section. If,
in making said districts, inequality of population should be unavoidable, any advantage
resulting therefrom shall be given to districts having the largest territory. No part of a
county shall be added to another county to make a district, and the counties forming a
district shall be contiguous.
Text as Ratified on: August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
History: Not yet amended.