No election shall be ordered for the creation or establishment of any new county which shall embrace one half or more of the area of any proposed new county in which an election for its creation was defeated within four years preceding the date of the filing of the petition for such new county.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 14-165; 1952 Code Section 14-165; 1942 Code Section 3036; 1932 Code Section 3036; Civ. C. '22 Section 728; Civ. C. '12 Section 644; 1908 (25) 1080.