[Art. 11-A, Sec. 3] MARYLAND MANUAL 366

SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an
elective 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 executive officer, or the presiding officer of said legis-
lative body, if such charter shall not provide for the elec-
tion of a chief executive 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 Balti-
more or to the County Commissioners of the Counties,
shall be construed to refer to the Mayor of Baltimore
and City Council of the City of Baltimore and to the
President and County Council herein provided for when-
ever 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 hereinbefore provided, the
Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Balti-
more or the County Council of said County, subject to the
Constitution and Public General Laws of this State, shall
have full power to enact local laws of said City or County
including the power to repeal or amend local laws of said
city or county enacted by the General Assembly, upon all
matters covered by the express powers granted as above
provided; provided that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to authorize or empower the County Council of
any County in this State to enact laws or regulations for
any incorporated town, village, or municipality in said
County, on any matter covered by the powers granted to
said town, village, or municipality by the Act incorporating
it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory thereto. Pro-
vided, however, that the charters for the various Counties
shall provide that the County Council of the Counties shall
not sit more than one month in each year for the purpose
of enacting legislation for such Counties, and all legislation
shall be enacted during the month so designated for that
purpose in the charter, and all laws and ordinances so en-
acted shall be published once a week for three successive
weeks in at least one newspaper published in such Counties,
so that the taxpayers and citizens may have notice thereof.
This provision shall not apply to Baltimore City. All such
local laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore and City
Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the