(b) The provisions of this Article shall be self execut
ing, provided that additional legislation in furtherance
thereof and not in conflict there v. ith ma) be enacted

SEC 2. No law enacted b', the General Assembly
shall take effect until the first di} of June next after the
session at which it mi) be passed, unless it contains i
Section declaring such law an emergence law and ncccs
sary tor the immediate preservation of the public health
or safety and is passed upon a \ ea and nay vote supported
by three fifths of all the membeis elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly The effective date
of a law other than an emergency lav. may be extended as
provided in Section 3 (b) hereof It before said first day of
June there shall have been filed with the Secretarv of the
State a petition to refer to a \ote of the people any law or
part of a law capable of referendum, as in this Article
provided, the same shall be referred bv the Secretary of
State to such v ote, and shall not become a law or take effect
until thirt\ da) s after its approv ill bv a majority of the
electors voting thereon at the next ensuing election held
throughout the State tor Member', of the House of Rep
resentatives of the United States An emergency law shall
remain in force notwithstanding such petition, but shall
stand repealed thirty days after having been rejected by a
ma)orit) of the qualified electors voting thereon No
measure creating oi abolishing any office, or changing the
salary, term or dutv ofanv officer, or granting any franchise
or special privilege, or creating iny vested right or interest,
shall be enacted as an emergency law No law making any
appropriation tor maintaining the State Government, or
for maintaining or aiding any public institution, not ex
ceedmg the next previous appropriation tor the same
purpose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under this
Section The increase in any such appropriation for main
taming or aiding any public institution shall only take
effect as in the case of other law s, and such increase or any
part thereof specified in the petition, may be referred to a
vote of the people upon peotion

SEC 3. (a) The referendum petition against an Act
or part of an Act passed by the General Assembly, shall be
sufficient it signed bv three percent of the qualified voters
of the State of Mar) land, calculated upon the whole num
ber of votes cast tor Governor at the last preceding Guber
natonal election, or whom not more than half are residents
of Baltimore City, or of any one Count) However, any
Public Local Law tor any one Count} or the City of
Baltimore shall be referred by the Secretary of State only
to the people of the County or C ity of Baltimore, upon a
referendum petition of ten percent of the qualified voters
of the County or C ity of Baltimore as the case may be,
calculated upon the whole number of votes cast respectiv cly
tor 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 reteren
dum petition against any law passed b) the General As
scmbly be tiled with the Secretary of State before the first
da) of June, the time tor the law to take effect and tor filing
the rcmamdei of signatures to complete the petition shall
be extended to the thirtieth dav of the same month, with
like effect

If an Act is passed less than 4S days prior to June 1, it
may not become effective sooner than 31 davs after its

passage Ib bring this Act to referendum the first one
third of the required number of signatures to a petition
shall be submitted within 30 days attcr its passage It the
first one third of the required number of signiturcs is
submitted to the Secretary of Sttte within 30 days after its
passage, the time for the Act to ttkc effect and for filing
the remainder of the signatures to complete the petition
shall be extended tor an additional ^0 days

(c) In this Article, "pass" or ' passed" me ills m\ final
action upon any Act oi part of an Act b\ both Houses of
the General Assembly, and "enact' or cnictcd" means
approval of an \ct or part of an Act b\ the Go\ernor

(d) Signatures on a petition for rcteicndum on an Act
or part of an Act may bt signed at an) time aftel the Act
or part of an Act is passed

SEC. 4. A petition may consist of scycral papeis,
but each paper shall contain the full text or in accurate
summary approved by the Attorney General of the Act or
part of \ct petiooned 1 here shill be attached to each
paper of signatures filed with a petition an aftida\it of the
person procuring those signatures that the signatures were
affixed in his presence and that, based upon the person's
best knowledge and belief, even signature on the paper is
genuine and bona fide and that the signers ire registered
voters at the address set opposite or below their names
The General Assembh shall prescribe b\ law the form of
the peution, the manner tor verifying its authcniicit), and
other administrative procedures which ticilitate the pen
tion process and which are not in conflict with this Article

SEC. 5 (a) The General Assembly shall provide for
furnishing the voters of the State the text of all measures to
be voted upon by the people provided tfnt until otherwise
provided by law the same shall be published in the manner
prescribed by Article XIV of the ( onstitution for the
publication ol proposed C onstitutiona] Amendments

(b) All laws referred under the provisions of this Article
shall be submitted separate!, on the billots to the voters of
the people, but it containing moic than two hundred
words, the full text shall not be printed on the official
ballots but the Sccreran of State shall prepaic and submit
a ballot title of each such measure in such form is to present
the purpose of said measure concisely ind intclligenth The
ballot title may be distinct from the legislate e title but in
an; case the legislative title shill be sufficient Upon each
of the ballots, following the ballot Otic oi te\t, is the case
may be, of each such measure there shall be printed the
words "For the referred law' and 'Against the referred
law," as the case ma^ he The votes cast for and against any
such referred law shall be returned to the Go\enoi in the
manner prescribed with respect to proposed amendments
to the ConsUtution under Article XIV of this Constitution,
and the Governor shall proclaim the result of the election,
and, if it shall appear that the ma)onr\ of the \otes cast on
any such measure were cast in ta\or thereof the Go\ernor
shall b} his proclamation declare the same hav ing received
a majority of the \ otes to ha\ e been adopted bv the people
of Maryland as a part of the laws of the State to take effect
thirty days after such election and in like manner ind with
hke effect the Governor shall proclaim the result of the local
election as to an.) Public I-ocal Law which shall l-me been
submitted to the \ otcrs of any C ounn or of the dt\ of
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