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CONSTITUTION OF 1867
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PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
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provided in Section 3 (b) hereof. If be-
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Section 2.12. Suspension.
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fore said first day of June there shall have
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A law enacted by the General Assembly
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been filed with the Secretary of the State a
petition to refer to a vote of the people
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subject to referendum shall be suspendible
unless it is passed by the affirmative vote of
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any law or part of a law capable of ref-
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three-fifths of all the members of each house
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erendum, as in this Article provided, the
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and contains a section declaring it to be an
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same shall be referred by the Secretary
of State to such vote, and shall not become
a law or take effect until thirty days after
its approval by a majority of the electors
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emergency law and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public health or safe-
ty. If one-half the required signatures are
filed during the thirty days after a bill be
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voting thereon at the next ensuing election
held throughout the State for Members of
the House of Representatives of the United
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comes law, the law, if suspendible, shall be
suspended thereby through the sixtieth day
after it became law. If the remaining re-
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States. An emergency law shall remain in
force notwithstanding such petition, but
shall stand repealed thirty days after having
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quired signatures are filed by that sixtieth
day, the law shall continue to be suspended.
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been rejected by a majority of the qualified
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Section 2.13. Effect of Referendum.
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electors voting thereon; provided, however,
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A referred law shall be repealed thirty days
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that no measure creating or abolishing any
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after it has been rejected by a majority of
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office, or changing the salary, term or duty
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those voting on it if the number voting on
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of any officer, or granting any franchise
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the question is not less than one-fourth the
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or special privilege, or creating any vested
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number voting in the election. A suspended
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right or interest, shall be enacted as an
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law which is not repealed shall take effect
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emergency law. No law making any appro-
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thirty days after the referendum or at a later
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priation for maintaining the State Gov-
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time if prescribed in the law.
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ernment, or for maintaining or aiding any
public institution, not exceeding the next
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Section 2.14. Laws Applicable in One Coun-
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previous appropriation for the same pur-
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ty.
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pose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal
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The General Assembly shall prescribe by
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under this Section. The increase in any
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law procedures by which a law enacted by it
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such appropriation for maintaining or aid-
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and applicable in only one county may be
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ing any public institution shall only take
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petitioned to referendum. The law shall be
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effect as in the case of other laws, and
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submitted to a vote of the people of the
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such increase or any part thereof specified
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county after a petition has been signed by a
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in the petition, may be referred to a vote
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number of qualified voters of the county
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of the people upon petition.
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equal to at least ten per cent of the total
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votes cast for governor in that county in the
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Sec. 3. (a) The referendum petition
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most recent gubernatorial election. No law
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against an Act or part of an Act passed
by the General Assembly, shall be sufficient
if signed by three per centum of the
qualified voters of the State of Maryland,
calculated upon the whole number of votes
cast therein for Governor at the last pre-
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empowering a county to exercise a power or
perform a function, nor any law pertaining
to appropriations, nor any law granting, lim-
iting, or withdrawing the taxing power of a
county shall be subject to referendum pur-
suant to this section.
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ceding Gubernatorial election, of whom not
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more than half shall be residents of Balti-
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more City, or of any one County; pro-
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vided that any Public Local Law for any
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one County or the City of Baltimore, shall
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be referred by the Secretary of State only
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to the people of said County or City of
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Baltimore, upon a referendum petition of
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ten per cent of the qualified voters of said
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County or City of Baltimore, as the case
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may be, calculated upon the whole number
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of votes cast therein respectively for Gov-
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ernor at the last preceding Gubernatorial
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election.
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