SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1387

the date it is enacted, the time for the public local law to take effect
and the time for filing the remainder of signatures to complete the
petition shall be extended for an additional forty days, with like
effect.

(3) A petition may consist of several papers, but each paper
shall contain the full text of the public local law or part of the
public local law petitioned to referendum, and there shall be attached
to each paper an affidavit of the person procuring the signatures
thereon that, to his personal knowledge, each signature thereon is
genuine and bona fide, and that to the best of his knowledge, in-
formation, and belief the signers are registered voters of the State
of Maryland and of the code county, as set opposite their names.
The Board of Supervisors of Elections shall verify the registration
of the petitioners.

(4) If the petition is filed with the Board of Supervisors of
Elections in compliance with all provisions of law, the public local
law shall not take effect until thirty days after its approval by a
majority of the registered voters voting on the question. An emer-
gency bill shall remain in force from its effective date notwithstand-
ing the filing of the petition, but it shall be repealed thirty days
after having been rejected by a majority of the registered voters
voting thereon.

11.    Journal.

The Board of County Commissioners of a code county shall pro-
vide for the keeping of a journal, which shall be open to public
inspection at all reasonable times.

12.    Compilation and publication of laws.

(a)    At the end of each calendar OR FISCAL year, each code
county shall publish FURNISH in a convenient and legible compila-
tion a complete set of all local laws enacted, amended, or repealed by
the code county during that year.

(b)    Copies of this compilation shall be made available for in-
spection at the office of the Board of County Commissioners during
normal business hours; and copies shall be kept on permanent record
at the office of the Board of County Commissioners. Copies also shall
be furnished to the Hall of Records Commission, the State Library,
and to each member of the legislative delegation of the county. The
foregoing copies shall be furnished without charge, and the county
also may make other copies available at a reasonable cost to any
person.

(c)      Not later than March 1 of the next succeeding year, the
code county, without charge, shall furnish five copies of this com-
pilation to the State Department of Legislative Reference; and if

the copies are not thus delivered by that date the several local

laws contained therein are automatically revoked and of no further

effect. In this event, all local laws contained in the compilation must

be re-enacted in order to have any force and effect, subject there

after to the same requirements for publication and delivery.

(d)    In addition to furnishing copies of the compilation to the
State Department of Legislative Reference, the code county shall
provide the Department a statement concerning any referendum on