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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

CONSTITUTION OF 1867

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968

provided in Section 3 (b) hereof. If be-

Section 2.12. Suspension.

fore said first day of June there shall have

A law enacted by the General Assembly

been filed with the Secretary of the State a
petition to refer to a vote of the people

subject to referendum shall be suspendible
unless it is passed by the affirmative vote of

any law or part of a law capable of ref-

three-fifths of all the members of each house

erendum, as in this Article provided, the

and contains a section declaring it to be an

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

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

voting thereon at the next ensuing election
held throughout the State for Members of
the House of Representatives of the United

comes law, the law, if suspendible, shall be
suspended thereby through the sixtieth day
after it became law. If the remaining re-

States. An emergency law shall remain in
force notwithstanding such petition, but
shall stand repealed thirty days after having

quired signatures are filed by that sixtieth
day, the law shall continue to be suspended.

been rejected by a majority of the qualified

Section 2.13. Effect of Referendum.

electors voting thereon; provided, however,

A referred law shall be repealed thirty days

that no measure creating or abolishing any

after it has been rejected by a majority of

office, or changing the salary, term or duty

those voting on it if the number voting on

of any officer, or granting any franchise

the question is not less than one-fourth the

or special privilege, or creating any vested

number voting in the election. A suspended

right or interest, shall be enacted as an

law which is not repealed shall take effect

emergency law. No law making any appro-

thirty days after the referendum or at a later

priation for maintaining the State Gov-

time if prescribed in the law.

ernment, or for maintaining or aiding any
public institution, not exceeding the next

Section 2.14. Laws Applicable in One Coun-

previous appropriation for the same pur-

ty.

pose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal

The General Assembly shall prescribe by

under this Section. The increase in any

law procedures by which a law enacted by it

such appropriation for maintaining or aid-

and applicable in only one county may be

ing any public institution shall only take

petitioned to referendum. The law shall be

effect as in the case of other laws, and

submitted to a vote of the people of the

such increase or any part thereof specified

county after a petition has been signed by a

in the petition, may be referred to a vote

number of qualified voters of the county

of the people upon petition.

equal to at least ten per cent of the total


votes cast for governor in that county in the

Sec. 3. (a) The referendum petition

most recent gubernatorial election. No law

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-

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.

ceding Gubernatorial election, of whom not


more than half shall be residents of Balti-


more City, or of any one County; pro-


vided that any Public Local Law for any


one County or the City of Baltimore, shall


be referred by the Secretary of State only


to the people of said County or City of


Baltimore, upon a referendum petition of


ten per cent of the qualified voters of said


County or City of Baltimore, as the case


may be, calculated upon the whole number


of votes cast therein respectively for Gov-


ernor at the last preceding Gubernatorial


election.


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