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in at least two newspapers of general circulation published in
said the City of Baltimore or county within thirty days after
it shall be reported to him. Such charter shall be submitted
to the voters of said city or county at the next general or Con-
gressional election after the report of said charter to said |
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Mayor of Baltimore or President of the Board of County Com-
missioners; and if a majority of the votes cast for and against
the adoption of said charter shall be in favor of such adoption,
the said charter from arid after the thirtieth days from the
date of such election shall become the law of said city or
county, subject only to the Constitution and Public General
Laws of this State, and any Public Local Laws inconsistent
with the provisions of said charter and former charter of said
the City of Baltimore or county shall be thereby repealed.
SEC. 2. The General Assembly at its first session after the
adoption of this amendment shall, by Public General Law,
provide a grant of express powers for such county or counties |
Submission
to Voters. |
as may thereafter form a charter under the provisions of this
Article. Such express powers granted to the counties and the
powers heretofore granted to the City of Baltimore, as set
forth in Article 4, Section 6, Public Local Laws of Maryland,
shall not be enlarged or extended by any charter formed
under the provisions of this Article, but such powers may be
extended, modified, amended or repealed by the General
Assembly. |
Grant of
Powers. |
SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elec-
tive legislative body in which shall be vested the law-making
power of said city or county. Such legislative body in the
City of Baltimore shall be known as the City Council of the
City of Baltimore, and in any county shall be known as the
County Council of the county. The chief executive officer, if
any such charter shall provide for the election of such execu-
tive officer, or the presiding officer of said legislative body, if
such charter shall not provide for the election of a chief exe-
cutive officer, shall be known in the City of Baltimore as
Mayor of Baltimore, and in any county as the President of
the County Council of the county, and all references in the
Constitution and laws of this State to the Mayor of Baltimore
and City Council of the City of Baltimore and to the Presi-
dent and County Commissioners of the counties shall be con-
strued to refer to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of
the City of Baltimore and to the President and County Coun-
cil herein provided for, whenever such construction would be
reasonable. From and after the adoption of a charter by the
City of Baltimore, or any county of this State, as hereinbe-
fore provided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the
City of Baltimore or the County Council of said county, sub-
ject to the Constitution and Public General Laws of this |
Name of
Law-Mak-
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