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suit by the State for the amount that ought to be paid
into the Treasury.
[3.1 2.
Any elected official of the State, or of a county or
of a municipal corporation whc during his term of office
is convicted of or enters a plea of nolo ccntendere to
any crime which is a felony, or which is a misdemeanor
related to his public duties and responsibilities and
involves acral 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
remamender, if any, of the elective term of office during
which he was so suspended or removed, and all pay and
benefits shall be restored.
[11.] 3.
No person who is a member of an organization 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 held 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.
Article XVI - The Referendum
2.
No law enacted by the General Assembly shall take
effect until the first day of June next after the session
at which it may be passed, unless it [contain] CONTAINS a
Section declaring such law an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health or
safetyf,] and IS passed upon a yea and nay vote supported
by three—fifths of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly[; provided, however,
that said period of suspension vay be extended as
provided in Section 3 (b) hereof ]. THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
A LAW OTHER THAN AN EMERGENCY LAW MAY BE EXTENDED AS
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