Volume 176, Page 757 View pdf image (33K) |
Art. 11-A] MARYLAND MANUAL 757 any amount at any time to provide for any emergency arising from the necessity of maintaining the police, or pre- serving the health, safety and sanitary condition of the City, and may make due and proper arrangements and agreements for the renewal and extension, in whole or in part, of any and all debts and obligations created accord- ing to law before the adoption of this Constitution. SEC. 8. All Laws and Ordinances, now in force, applica- ble to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and they are hereby continued until changed in due course of Law. SEC. 9. The (general Assembly may make such changes in this Article, except in Section seventh thereof, as it may deem best; and this Article shall not be so construed, or taken as to make the political corporation of Baltimore in- dependent of, or free from the control, which the General Assembly of Maryland has over all such Corporations in this State. 1 ARTICLE XI-A LOCAL LEGISLATION 2 SECTION 1. On demand of the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore, or on petition bear- ing the signatures of not less than 20% of the registered voters of said City or any County (Provided, however, that in any case 10,000 signatures shall be sufficient to complete a petition), the Board of Election Supervisors of said City or County shall provide at the next general or congres- sional election, occurring after such demand or the filing of such petition, for the election of a charter board of eleven registered voters of said City or five registered voters in any such Counties. Nominations for members for said charter board may be made not less than forty days prior to said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the County Commissioners of such County, or not less than twenty days prior to said election by petition bearing the signatures written in their own handwriting (and not by their mark) of not less than 5% of the registered voters of the said City of Baltimore or said County; provided, that in any case two thousand signatures of registered voters shall be sufficient to com- plete any such nominating petition, and if not more than 1 Added by Chapter 416, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2, 1915. 2 Thus amended by Chapter 192, Acts of 1963, ratified November 3, 1964. |
||||
Volume 176, Page 757 View pdf image (33K) |
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|
An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact
mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.