[ART. XVI.* CONSTITUTION. 87
SEC. 3. (a) The referendum petition against an Act or
part of an Act passed by the General Assembly, shall be suffi-
cient if signed by ten thousand qualified voters of the State of
Maryland, of whom not more than half shall be residents of
Baltimore .City, or of any one county; provided that any Pub-
lic Local Law for any one county or the City of Baltimore
shall be referred by the Secretary of State only to the people
of said county or City of Baltimore, upon a referendum peti-
tion of ten per cent of the qualified voters of said county or
City of Baltimore as the case may be, calculated upon the
whole number of votes cast therein respectively for Governor
at the last preceding Gubernatorial election.
(b) If more than one-half, but less than the full number of
signatures required to complete any referendum petition
against any law passed by the General Assembly, be filed with
Secretary of State before the first day of June, the time for
the law to take effect, and for filing the remainder of signa-
tures to complete the petition shall be extended to the thirtieth
day of the same month, with like effect. |
Required
Signatures. |
SEC. 4. A, petition may consist of several papers, but each
paper shall contain the full text of the Act or part of Act
petitioned upon; and there shall be attached to each such
paper an affidavit of the person procuring the signatures there-
on that of the said person's own personal knowledge every
signature thereon is genuine and bona fide, and that the sign-
ers are registered voters of the State of Maryland, and of the
City of Baltimore, or county, as the case may be, as set oppo-
site their names, and no other verification shall be required. |
Affidavit. |
SEC. 5. (a) The General Assembly shall provide for fur-
nishing the voters of the State the text of all measures to be
voted upon by the people; provided, that until otherwise pro-
vided by law the same shall be published in the manner pre-
scribed by Article XIV of the Constitution for the publica-
tion of proposed Constitutional Amendments.
(b) All laws referred under the provisions of this Article |
Voters Fur-
nished Text
of Measures. |
shall be submitted separately on the ballots to the voters of
the people, but if containing more than two hundred words,
the full text shall not be printed on the official ballots, but the
Secretary of State shall prepare and submit a ballot title of
each such measure in such form as to present the purpose of
said measure concisely and intelligently. The ballot title may
be distinct from the legislative title, but in any case the legis-
lative title shall be sufficient. Upon each of the ballots, follow-
ing the ballot title or text, as the case may be, of each such
measure, there shall be printed the words "For the referred
law" and ''Against the referred law," as the case may be.
The votes cast for and against any such referred law shall be
returned to the Governor in the manner prescribed with re- |
Arrangement
on Ballot. |
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