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lii other words, to give an example, if they sai(
in Montgomery County and Prince Georges County there
would be a regional government of some kind there let's
assume that it was multi-functional regional government,
sewer, water, transit, everything. There is some question
under the present law as to whether the General Assembly coi
refer that kind of thing, even if they wanted to, to a
county-by-county or some other kind of referendum.
I think 7.10 makes clear they could now.
Similarly I think the General Assembly has the
choice in this respect, because you might have simply the
creation of a popularly elected transit authority for the
two counties I just mentioned; or take the Baltimore MTA,
with which you are familiar, and you might say its Board
will be three people who are elected.
ltwould seem to me the General Assembly in a
case like that shouldn't be forced to submit it to referen-
dum in the area affected.
With these homey examples, it might be a little
clearer, because I know it was a little confused when we
started on this.