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is provided by law, then in such event the person entitled
to succeed to the office shall temporarily fill the elective
office. If the conviction becomes final, after judicial review
or otherwise, such elected official shall be removed from
the elective office by operation of Law and the office shall
be deemed vacant. If the conviction of the elected official
is reversed or overturned, the elected official shall be
reinstated by operation of Law to the elective office for the
remainder, if any; of the elective term of office during which
he was so suspended or removed, and all pay and benefits
shall be restored.

SEC. 3.211 No person who is a member of an organi-
zation that advocates the overthrow of the Government of
the United States or of the State of Maryland through force
or violence shall be eligible to hold any office, be it elective
or appointive, or any other position of profit or trust in the
Government of or in the administration of the business of
this State or of any county, municipality or other political
subdivision of this State.

SEC. 4.212 Vacant.

SEC. 5.213 Except as the Constitution provides other-
wise for any office, the General Assembly may provide by
law for a person to act in place of any elected or appointed
officer of the State who is unavailable to perform the duties
of his office because he has become unable or is or will be
absent.

SEC. 6.2U Vacant.

SEC. 7.21S All general elections in this State shall be
held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of Nov., in the year in which they shall occur.

SEC. 8.216 Vacant.
SEC. 9.217 Vacant.
SEC. 10.218 Vacant.
SEC. II.219 Vacant.

ARTICLE XVI.220
THE REFERENDUM.

SECTION 1. (a) The people reserve to themselves
power known as The Referendum, by petition to have
submitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve
or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the
General 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-executing;
provided that additional legislation in furtherance thereof
and not in conflict therewith may be enacted.

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SEC. 2.221 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 contains a
Section declaring such law an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health or
safety and is 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. The effective date of a
law other than an emergency law 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 Repre-
sentatives of the United States. An emergency law snail
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. No mea-
sure creating or abolishing any office, or changing 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 Government, or
for maintaining or aiding any public institution, not ex-
ceeding the next previous appropriation for the same pur-
pose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under this
Section. The increase in any such appropriation for main-
taining or aiding any public institution shall only take effect
as in the case of other laws, and such increase or any part
thereof specified in the petition, may be referred to a vote
of the people upon petition.

SEC. 3.222 (a) The referendum petition against an Act
or part of an Act passed by the General Assembly, shall be
sufficient if signed by three percent of the qualified voters of
the State of Maryland, calculated upon the whole number
of votes cast for Governor at the last preceding Gubernato-
rial election, of whom not more than half are residents of
Baltimore City, or of any one County. However, any Public
Local Law for any one County or the City of Baltimore,
shall be referred by the Secretary of State only to the people
of the County or City of Baltimore, upon a referendum
petition often percent of the qualified voters of the County
or City of Baltimore, as the case may be, calculated upon the
whole number of votes cast respectively for Governor at the
last preceding Gubernatorial election.

(b) If more than one-third, but less than the full number
of signatures required to complete any referendum petition
against any law passed by the General Assembly, De filed