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ART. XIA] LOCAL LEGISLATION. 17
the County Commissioners of the Counties, shall be construed to refer
to the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore
and to the President and County Council herein provided for whenever
such construction would be reasonable. From and after the adoption
of a charter by the City of Baltimore, or any County of this State, as
hereinbefore provided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the
City of Baltimore or the County Council of said County, subject to the
Constitution and Public General Laws of this State, shall have full
power to enact local laws of said City or County including the power
to repeal or amend local laws of said city or county enacted by the
General Assembly, upon all matters covered by the express powers
granted as above provided; provided that nothing herein contained shall
be construed to authorize or empower the County Council of any County
in this State to enact laws or regulations for any incorporated town,
village, or municipality in said County, on any matter covered by the
powers granted to said town, village, or municipality by the Act incor-
porating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory thereto. Pro-
vided, however, that the charters for the various Counties shall provide
that the County Council of the Counties shall not sit more than one
month in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation for such
Counties, and all legislation shall be enacted during the month so
designated for that purpose in the charter, and all laws and ordinances
so enacted shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in
at least one newspaper published in such Counties, so that the taxpayers
and citizens may have notice thereof. This provision shall not apply
to Baltimore City. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Balti-
more and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the
Counties as hereinbefore provided, shall be subject to the same rules
of interpretation as those now applicable to the Public Local Laws of
this State, except that in case of any conflict between said local law
and any Public General Law now or hereafter enacted the Public
General Law shall control.
Sec. 4. From and after the adoption of a charter under the provi-
sions of this Article by the City of Baltimore or any County of this
State, no public local law shall be enacted by the General Assembly
for said City or County on any subject covered by express powers
granted as above provided. Any law so drawn as to apply to two or
more of the geographical sub-divisions of this State shall not be deemed
a Local Law, within the meaning of this Act. The term "geographical
sub-division" herein used shall be taken to mean the City of Balti-
more or any of the Counties of this State.
Sec. 5. Amendments to any charter adopted by the City of Balti-
more or by any County of this State under the provisions of this Arti-
cle may be proposed by a resolution of the Mayor of Baltimore and
the City Council of said the City of Baltimore, or the Council of
said County, or by a petition signed by not less than 20% of the regis-
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