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676 MARYLAND MANUAL tion vote against the resolution, the resolution is rejected, and of no further effect. PROVIDED THAT IF AT THE NEXT ENSUING GEN- ERAL ELECTION THERE ALREADY IS SCHEDULED ¥0 SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY A PROPOSED CHARTER UNDER ARTICLE 11A OF THIS CONSTITUTION, THE PROPOSED CHAR- TER ONLY SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THAT NEXT ENSUING GENERAL ELECTION. IF THE PROPOSED CHARTER IS ADOPTED BY THE VOTERS, THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION TO BECOME A CODE COUNTY SHALL NOT BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AND SHALL HAVE NO FURTHER EFFECT. IF THE PROPOSED CHARTER IS REJECTED BY THE VOTERS, THE CODE QUESTION UNDER THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THE GENERAL ELECTION TWO YEARS LATER, AND NO CHARTER QUESTION UNDER ARTICLE 11A SHALL THEN BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS' AT THAT GENERAL ELECTION. Section 3. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, a code county may enact, amend, or repeal a public local law of that county, following the procedure in this Article. Section 4. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the General Assembly shall not enact, amend, or repeal a public local law which is special or local in its terms or effect within a code county. The General Assembly may enact, amend, or repeal public local laws applicable to code counties only by general enactments which in term and effect apply alike to all code counties in one or more of the classes provided for in Section 5 of this Article. Section 5. The General Assembly, by law, shall classify all code counties by grouping them into not more than four classes based either upon population as determined in the most recent Federal or State census or upon such other criteria as determined by the General Assembly to be appro- priate. Not more than one such grouping of code counties into four (or fewer) classes may be in effect at any one time, and the enactment of any grouping of code counties into four (or fewer) classes repeals any other such group- ing then in effect. Code counties may be classified only as provided in this section. Section 6. A code county may enact, amend, or repeal a public local law of that county by a resolution of the board |
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