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(a) There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly included in the city, a board of supervisors, or other elective governing body, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law.
(b) The legislature shall provide by law for the organization and government of counties. No law which shall be special or local in its terms or in its effect, or which shall relate specially to one county only, shall be enacted by the legislature unless (a) upon the request of the board of supervisors or other elective governing body of each county to be affected, or, in any county having an alternative form of government providing for an elective county executive officer, upon the request of the board of supervisors or other elective governing body with the concurrence of such executive officer of each county to be affected; or (b) upon a certificate of necessity by the governor to the legislature reciting the facts of such necessity existing in the county to be affected and the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the legislature.
(c) The legislature may authorize boards of supervisors or other elective governing bodies of two or more counties to provide by agreement for the discharge within the territorial limits of such counties or parts thereof of one or more governmental functions.