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Art. 16] MARYLAND MANUAL 661
1 ARTICLE XVI
THE REFERENDUM.
SECTION 1. (a) The people reserve to themselves pow-
er known as The Referendum, by petition to have sub-
mitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or
reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly, if approved by the Governor, or, if passed
by the General Assembly over the veto of the Governor;
(b) The provisions of this Article shall be self-execut-
ing; provided that additional legislation in furtherance
thereof and not in conflict therewith may be enacted.
SEC. 2. No law enacted by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the session
at which it may be passed, unless it contain a Section de-
claring such law an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health or safety, and
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly; provided, however, that said period
of suspension may be extended as provided in Section 3
(b) hereof. If before said first day of June there shall
have been filed with the Secretary of the State a petition
to refer to a vote of the people any law or part of a law
capable of referendum, as in this Article provided, the
same shall be referred by the Secretary of State to such
vote, and shall not become a law or take effect until thirty
days after its approval by a majority of the electors voting
thereon at the next ensuing election held throughout the
State for Members of the House of Representatives of the
United States. An emergency law shall remain in force
notwithstanding such petition, but shall stand repealed
thirty days after having been rejected by a majority of
the qualified electors voting thereon; provided, however,
that no measure creating or abolishing any office, or chang-
ing the salary, term or duty of any officer, or granting any
franchise or special privilege, or creating any vested right
or interest, shall be enacted as an emergency law. No law
making any appropriation for maintaining the State Gov-
ernment, or for maintaining or aiding any public institu-
tion, not exceeding the next previous appropriation for the
same purpose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under
this Section. The increase in any such appropriation for
maintaining or aiding any public institution shall only take
effect as in the case of other laws, and such increase or
1 Added by Chapter 673, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2,1915

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