CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		Article shall be submitted to the voters at
		the general election two years later, and
		no charter question under Article 11A shall
		be submitted to the voters at that general
		election.
	Section 7.04. Powers of Counties.	See Art. III, Sec. 61 at Section 1.16 for
	A county may exercise any power, other	the power of the General Assembly by
	than the judicial power, or perform any	public local law to enable any county or
	function unless that power or function has	municipal corporation to carry out urban
	been denied to the county by the Constitu-	renewal projects.
	tion or by its instrument of government, or has been transferred exclusively to another governmental unit, or has been denied to the county by the General Assembly by law. A county may exercise only those taxing powers granted to it by the General Assembly by	Art. XI, sec. 8. All Laws and Ordi- nances, now in force, applicable to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and they are hereby con- tinued until changed in due course of Law.
	law but shall retain taxing powers granted to	Art. XI-A, sec. 2. The General Assembly
	it prior to the effective date of this Constitu-	at its first session after the adoption of
	tion, unless any of those powers are subse-	this amendment shall by public general law
	quently denied to it by law.	provide a grant of express powers for such
		county or counties as may thereafter form
		a charter under the provisions of this
		Article. Such express powers granted to the
		counties and the powers heretofore granted
		to the City of Baltimore, as set forth in
		Article 4, Section 6, Public Local Laws of
		Maryland, shall not be enlarged or extended
		by any charter formed under the provi-
		sions of this Article, but such powers may
		be extended, modified, amended or repealed
		by the General Assembly.
		Art. XI-A, sec. 3. ... 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 incorporating it, or any subsequent Act
		or Acts amendatory thereto. Provided, how-
		ever, that the charters for the various
		counties shall specify the number of days,
		not to exceed forty-five, which may but need
		not be consecutive, that the County Coun-

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