PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND

To be submitted to the voters for ratification or rejection
at the General Election to be held in November, 1956.

CHAPTER 557
(Senate Bill 104)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of
Maryland by amending Article XIA, title "Local Legisla-
tion", Section 3, so as to authorize County Councils of
Counties which adopt a Charter under this Article to sit for
the enactment of legislation for not exceeding forty-five days,
which need not be consecutive, and to change the require-
ment concerning the publication of legislation enacted by
such County Councils so that only the titles of such legislation
need to be published once a week for two successive weeks, and
to provide for the submission of said amendment to the quali-
fied voters of the State of Maryland for adoption or rejection.

SECTIONS 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land (three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses
concurring), That an amendment of Article XIA, title "Local
Legislation", Section 3, of the Constitution of Maryland, be
and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitution of Maryland, which amended Article, if adopted by
the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, as herein pro-
vided, shall thereby, by such adoption, be and become a part
of the Constitution of Maryland:

ARTICLE XIA
Local Legislation

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 legislative body, if such
charter shall not provide for the election 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 Con-