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per cent of the registered voters of a municipal corporation
and filed with the legislative body of said municipal corpo-
ration. The General Assembly shall amplify the provisions
of this section by general law in any manner not incon-
sistent with this Article.
Section 5. Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Article, the General Assembly may enact, amend, or repeal
local laws placing a maximum limit on the rate at which
property taxes may be imposed by any such municipal
corporation and regulating the maximum amount of debt
which may be incurred by any municipal corporation. How-
ever, no such local law shall become effective in regard to
a municipal corporation until and unless it shall have been
approved at a regular or special municipal election by a
majority of the voters of that municipal corporation voting
on the question. NO SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
SHALL LEVY ANY TYPE OF TAX, LICENSE FEE,
FRANCHISE TAX OR FEE WHICH WAS NOT IN EF-
FECT IN SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ON JAN-
UARY 1, 1954, UNLESS IT SHALL RECEIVE THE EX-
PRESS AUTHORIZATION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY FOR SUCH PURPOSE, BY A GENERAL LAW
WHICH IN ITS TERMS AND ITS EFFECT APPLIES
ALIKE TO ALL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN
ONE OR MORE OF THE CLASSES PROVIDED FOR IN
SECTION 2 OF THIS ARTICLE. All charter provisions
enacted under the authority of Section 3 of this Article
shall be subject to any local laws enacted by the General
Assembly and approved by the municipal voters under the
provisions of this section.
Section 6. All charter provisions, or amendments there-
to, adopted under the provisions of this Article, shall be
subject to all applicable laws enacted by the General Assem-
bly; except that any local laws, or amendments thereto, re-
lating to the incorporation, organization, government, or af-
fairs of any municipal corporation and enacted before this
Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any charter
provisions, or amendments thereto, adopted under the pro-
visions of this Article. Any local law, or amendments there-
to, relating to the incorporation, organization, government,
or affairs of any municipal corporation and in effect at the
time this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any
applicable State law enacted after this Article becomes ef-
fective. All laws enacted by the General Assembly and tn
effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall re-
main in effect until amended or repealed in accordance
with the provisions of this Constitution. NOTHING IN


 
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