the proposed amendment shall be part of the Constitution
if it receives a majority of the votes cast in the State and in
the affected county or City of Baltimore, as the case may
be. When two or more amendments shall be submitted to
the voters of this State at the same election, they shall be
so submitted as that each amendment shall be voted on
separately.

SEC. 1A.²¹⁰ A proposed Constitutional amendment
which, by provisions that are of limited duration, provides
for a period of transition, or a unique schedule under which
the terms of the amendment are to become effective, shall
set forth those provisions in the amendment as a section or
sections of a separate article, to be known as "provisions of
limited duration", and state the date upon which or the
circumstances under which those provisions shall expire. If
the Constitutional amendment is adopted, those provisions
of limited duration shall have the same force and effect as
any other part of the Constitution, except that they shall
remain a part of the Constitution only so long as their terms
require. Each new section of the article known as "provi-
sions of limited duration" shall refer to the title and section
of the other article of the Constitution of which it, tempo-
rarily, is a part.

SEC. 2.²¹¹ It shall be the duty of the General Assem-
bly to provide by Law for taking, at the general election
to be held in the year nineteen hundred and seventy, and
every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in
regard to calling a Convention for altering this Constitu-
tion; and if a majority of voters at such election or
elections shall vote for a Convention, the General
Assembly, at its next session, shall provide by Law for the
assembling of such convention, and for the election of
Delegates thereto. Each County, and Legislative District
of the City of Baltimore, shall have in such Convention a
number of Delegates equal to its representation in both
Houses at the time at which the Convention is called. But
any Constitution, or change, or amendment of the exist-
ing Constitution, which may be adopted by such Conven-
tion, shall be submitted to the voters of this State, and
shall have no effect unless the same shall have been
adopted by a majority of the voters voting thereon.

ARTICLE XV

SECTION 1.²¹² Every person holding any office cre-
ated by, or existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the
State, or holding any appointment under any Court of this
State, whose pay, or compensation is derived from fees, or
moneys coming into his hands for the discharge of his official
duties, or, in any way, growing out of, or connected with his
office, shall keep a book in which shall be entered every sum,
or sums of money, received by him, or on his account, as a
payment or compensation for his performance of official
duties, a copy of which entries in said book, verified by the
oath of the officer, by whom it is directed to be kept, shall
be returned yearly to the Comptroller of the State for his

inspection, and that of the General Assembly of the State,
to which the Comptroller shall, at each regular session
thereof, make a report showing what officers hive com-
plied with this Section; and each of the said officers, when
the amount received by him for the year shall exceed the
sum which he is by Law entitled to retain, as his salary or
compensation for the discharge of his duties, and for the
expenses of his office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer
of the State the amount of such excess, subject to such
disposition thereof as the General Assembly may direct; if
any of such officers shall fail to comply with the requisitions
of this section for the period of thirty days after the
expiration of each and every year of his office, such officer
shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and the Gover-
nor shall declare the same vacant, and the vacancy therein
shall be filled as in the case of vacancy for any other cause,
and such officer shall be subject to suit by the State for the
amount that ought to be paid into the Treasury.

SEC. 2.²¹³ Any elected official of the State, or of a
county or of a municipal corporation who during his term
of office is convicted of or enters a plea of nolo contendere
to any crime which is a felony, or which is a misdemeanor
related to his public duties and responsibilities and involves
moral turpitude for which the penalty may be incarceration
in any penal institution, shall be suspended by operation of
law without pay or benefits from the elective office. During
and for the period of suspension of the elected official, the
appropriate governing body and/or official authorized by
law to fill any vacancy in the elective office shall appoint a
person to temporarily fill the elective office, provided that
if the elective office is one for which automatic succession
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. 3.²¹⁴ 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. 4.²¹⁵ Vacant.

SEC. 5.²¹⁶ 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.