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Maryland Manual, 1971-72
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Art. 3] MARYLAND MANUAL 637
ARTICLE III.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
SECTION 1. The Legislature shall consist of two distinct
branches; a Senate, and a House of Delegates; and shall be
styled the General Assembly of Maryland.
1 SEC. 2. The membership of the Senate shall consist of
the forty-three (43) Senators. The membership of the
House of Delegates shall consist of one hundred forty-two
(142) Delegates.
' SEC. 3. The State shall be divided by law into districts
for the election of members of the Senate and into districts
for the election of members of the House of Delegates. The
number of Senators and Delegates to be elected from each
of the legislative districts shall be prescribed by law, but
not more than two Senators shall be elected from any
senatorial district.
" SEC. 4. Each legislative district shall consist of ad-
joining territory and shall be compact in form. The ratio
of the number of Senators to population shall be substan-
tially the same in each legislative district; the ratio of the
number of Delegates to population shall be substantially the
same in each legislative district, nothing herein shall be
construed to require the election of only one Delegate from
each legislative district.
* SEC. 5. Following each decennial census of the United
States, the Governor shall prepare a plan for legislative
districting and apportionment. The Governor shall present
the plan to the General Assembly not later than the first
day of its regular session in the second year following the
census, and may call a special session to present it prior
thereto. No change in the number of members of the Senate
or House of Delegates shall be provided in this plan. Follow-
ing each decennial census the General Assembly shall by
law enact a plan for legislative districting and apportion-
ment. If no plan has been enacted for these purposes by the
forty-fifth day after the opening of the regular session of
the General Assembly of the second year following the
census, the plan presented to the General Assembly by the
Governor shall become law. Upon petition of any registered
voter, the Court of Appeals shall have original jurisdiction
to review the legislative districting and apportionment of
the State and may grant appropriate relief, if it finds that
'Thus amended by Chapter 785, Acts of 1969, ratified November 8, 1970.
'Thus amended by Chapter 785, Acts of 1969, ratified November 3, 1970.
' Thus amended by Chapter 785, Acts of 1969, ratified November 3, 1970.
<Thus amended by Chapter 785, Acts of 1969, ratified November 3, 1970.

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