ARTICLE XVIII.²⁴²

SEC. 1. Any provision of limited duration adopted
pursuant to Article XIV is set forth below. As each expires,
it shall stand repealed, and no further action shall be
required to remove it from the Constitution.

SEC. 2.²⁴³ (a) For the purpose of implementing the
amendments, proposed by Chapter 523 of the Acts of 1980
(H.B. 1729) (OLR3623) or (S.B. 784) (OLR0746), con-
cerning the creation of a consolidated Circuit Court of
Baltimore City, this section temporarily is a part of Article
IV—Judiciary Department, secs. 5, 25, and 26 of the
Constitution. This section shall expire (in accordance with
Article XIV, sec. 1A of the Constitution), when, under the
provisions of subsection (b) of this section, all of the judges
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City who are serving
on December 31, 1982 have completed their then existing
terms, or have otherwise vacated their offices without
completing those terms.

(b) Each judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
who is in office on December 31, 1982, shall continue in
office as a judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, for
the remainder of the term to which he was appointed or
elected, subject to the provisions of Article IV, sections 3,
4, 4A, 4B, and 5 of the Constitution.

(c) Each clerk and each deputy clerk of a court of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City who is in office on
December 31, 1982 shall become a deputy clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore City with no diminution of
salary and as such shall occupy a position in the personnel

merit system for the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Baltimore City. These persons shall serve subject to the
provisions of Article IV, section 26 of the Constitution.
Each person who otherwise has been employed in the
office of a clerk of a court of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City in a position authorized prior to June 30,
1982, shall become an employee of the office of the clerk
of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and occupy a
position in the personnel merit system for that office, with
no diminution in salary, subject to the provisions of Article
IV, section 26 of the Constitution.

(d) At the primary and general elections occurring in
1982 in Baltimore City, there shall be nominated and
elected one clerk who shall be designated as clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore City as created under the
amendments proposed in section 2 of said Chapter 523,
Acts of 1980. A clerk of one of the courts of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City is eligible to run in this election.

(e) The amendments to Article IV and this Article
XVIII of the Constitution (proposed by the above refer-
enced Chapter 523 of the Acts of 1980) if approved by the
voters at the general election in Nov., 1980, shall take effect
on January 1, 1983.

SEC. 3²⁴⁴ Of the methods of election of county com-
missioners authorized by Section 1 of Article VII, and of
members of county councils authorized by Section 3A(a)
of Article XI-A, of this Act, that method in effect in each
county immediately preceding the effective date of this Act
shall remain in effect unless changed on or after that date
pursuant to this Constitution.