466 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 11A, Sec. 4]
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 specify the number of days, not to exceed forty-five,
which may but need not be consecutive, that the County
Council of the Counties may sit in each year for the pur-
pose of enacting legislation for such Counties, and all legis-
lation shall be enacted at the times 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
Counties as hereinbefore provided, shall be subject to the
same rules of interpretation as those now applicable to the
Public Local Laws of this State, except that in case of any
conflict between said local law and any Public General
Law now or hereafter enacted the Public General Law shall
control.
SEC. 4. From and after the adoption of a charter under
the provisions of this Article by the City of Baltimore or
any County of this State, no public local law shall be
enacted by the General Assembly for said City or County on
any subject covered by the express powers granted as above
provided. Any law so drawn as to apply to two or more
of the geographical sub-divisions of this State shall not
be deemed a Local Law, within the meaning of this Act.
The term "geographical sub-division" herein used shall be
taken to mean the City of Baltimore or any of the Counties
of this State.
SEC. 5. Amendments to any charter adopted by the City
of Baltimore or by any County of this State under the pro-
visions of this Article may be proposed by a resolution of
the Mayor of Baltimore and the City Council of said the
City of Baltimore, or the Council of said County, or by a
petition signed by not less than 20% of the registered
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