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may pass a Special Law and I think this flies directly
in the face of the provision of the local government article
that tried to restrict the legislature to enacting only
statewide laws.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Fox, do you mean by that
last comment that a Special Law cannot be statewide?
DELEGATE FOX: Of course there is no definition
of what a Special Law is. Minnesota and some other states
use Special Law to mean a local law. Some states talk
about a private law and a local law, and a special law is
a general classification that includes them both.
THE CHAIRMAN; Delegate Gallagher's statement
of yesterday in the course of his presentation I thought
was based upon the decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals
and indicated that a Special Law was neither a general nor
a local law, but as its name implied, a local law, as for
instance a law for the relief of an individual citizen.
Delegate Fox.
DELEGATE FOX: That in some jurisdictions is
referred to as a private law.
THE CHAIRMAN: That is true, that would be a
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