a municipal corporation until and unless it shall have been
approved at a regular or special municipal election by a
majority of the voters of that municipal corporation voting
on the question. No such municipal corporation shall levy
any type of tax, license fee, franchise tax or fee which
was not in effect in such municipal corporation on January
1, 1954, unless it shall receive the express authorization of
the General Assembly for such purpose, by a general law
which in its terms and its effect applies alike to all munic-
ipal corporations in one or more of the classes provided for
in Section 2 of this Article. All charter provisions enacted
under the authority of Section 3 of this Article shall be
subject to any local laws enacted by the General Assembly
and approved by the municipal voters under the provisions
of this section.

SEC. 6. All charter provisions, or amendments thereto,
adopted under the provisions of this Article, shall be sub-
ject to all applicable laws enacted by the General Assem-
bly; except that any local laws, or amendments thereto,
relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or
affairs of any municipal corporation and enacted before
this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any char-
ter provisions, or amendments thereto, adopted under the
provisions of this Article. Any local law, or amendments
thereto, relating to the incorporation, organization, gov-
ernment, or affairs of any municipal corporation and in
effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall be
subject to any applicable State law enacted after this
Article becomes effective. All laws enacted by the General
Assembly and in effect at the time this Article becomes
effective, shall remain in effect until amended or repealed
in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
Nothing in this Article shall be construed to authorize any
municipal corporation by any amendment or addition to its
charter, to permit any act which is prohibited by the laws
of this State concerning the observance of the Sabbath
Day or the manufacture, licensing or sale of alcoholic
beverages.

ARTICLE XII.
PUBLIC WORKS.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the
Treasury and the Treasurer, shall constitute the Board of