CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
		ing intergovernmental authorities and popu-
		larly elected representative regional gov-
		ernments, shall consist of all or part of two
		or more counties. The General Assembly may
		provide by law for the establishment, merger,
		or dissolution of multi-county governmental
		units, or for the alteration of their bounda-
		ries, or for the powers they may exercise.
		The General Assembly may provide for ref-
		erenda on any of these laws pertaining to a
		popularly elected representative regional gov-
		ernment.
		Section 7.09. Financing of Intergovernmental
		Authorities.
		The General Assembly by law or a popu-
		larly elected representative local government
		by law may grant to an intergovernmental
		authority the power to impose and to collect
		service or benefit charges, to borrow money,
		and to collect taxes imposed by the General
		Assembly or by the popularly elected repre-
		sentative local government, but may not
		grant the power to impose taxes.
	ARTICLE XI-E.
	Section 1. Except as provided elsewhere	Section 7.05. Existing Municipal Corpora-
	in this Article, the General Assembly shall	tions.
	not pass any law relating to the incorpo- ration, organization, government, or affairs of those municipal corporations, which are not authorized by Article 11 -A of the Con- stitution to have a charter form of govern- ment which will be special or local in its terms or in its effect, but the General Assembly shall act in relation to the incor-	Municipal corporation shall mean an in- corporated city, town, or village, but shall not include Baltimore City or any other county. Municipal corporations existing at the effective date of this Constitution may not be merged or dissolved or have their boundaries altered or have their existing powers withdrawn, without the consent of
	poration, organization, government, or af- fairs of any such municipal corporation only by general laws which shall in their terms and in their effect apply alike to all	the governing bodies of the county and the municipal corporations affected, or except as the General Assembly may prescribe by law.
	municipal corporations in one or more of	Section 7.06. New Municipal Corporations
	the classes provided for in Section 2 of this	and Intracounty Governmental Units.
	Article. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by Law the method by which new municipal corporations shall	A county may provide by law for the crea- tion of new municipal corporations and other units of local government comprising a
	be formed.	part of the area of the county and by law
		may grant to and withdraw from them any
		and all powers of the county, subject to any
		procedures and standards that the General
		Assembly may prescribe by law.
	Sec. 2. The General Assembly, by Law,
	shall classify all such municipal corporations
	by grouping them into not more than four
	classes based on populations as determined
	by the most recent census made under the
	authority of the United States or the State
	of Maryland. No more than one such group-

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