7-2-2202. Limitations on creation of new counties. (1) No new county shall be established which shall reduce any county to an assessed valuation of less than $12 million, inclusive of all assessed valuation as shown by the last preceding assessment.
     (2) No new county shall be formed which contains an assessed valuation of property less than $10 million, inclusive of all assessed valuation, as shown by the last preceding assessment of the county or counties from which such new county is to be established.
     (3) No new county shall be established which shall reduce the area of any existing county from which territory is taken to form such new county to less than 500 square miles of surveyed land, exclusive of all forest reserve and Indian reservations within old counties.
     (4) No territory shall be taken from one county and added to another county unless its surveyed area is greater than 49 square miles.
     (5) No new county shall be formed which contains less than 250 square miles of surveyed land, exclusive of all forest reserve land or Indian reservations not open for settlement.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 226, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 4390, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 106, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 4390, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 406, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 16-501(part); amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 742, L. 1985.