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any proposed local law. The statement shall include information on
the results of any referendum held during the year, and it shall
include information as to any referendum pending actually or po-
tentially, but not yet held, at the end of the year. If a statement
of referendum is not delivered as herein required, the particular law
is automatically revoked and of no further effect. In this later

event, the local law must be re-enacted in order to have any force

and effect, subject thereafter to the same requirements for publication
and delivery.

(E)  AT THE END OF EACH CALENDAR YEAR THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SHALL AD-
DRESS AN INQUIRY TO EACH CODE COUNTY INQUIRING
WHETHER OR NOT DURING THAT CALENDAR YEAR OR ITS
LATEST FISCAL YEAR IT HAS ENACTED, AMENDED OR RE-
PEALED ANY PORTION OF ITS PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS. THE
CODE COUNTY SHALL PROMPTLY ANSWER THE INQUIRY
AND SHALL VERIFY THAT COPIES OF ALL SUCH ENACT-
MENTS, AMENDMENTS, OR REPEALS HAVE ALREADY
BEEN SENT TO THE DEPARTMENT.

(F)  IF THE CODE COUNTY FAILS OR REFUSES TO SUP-
PLY COPIES OF THIS COMPILATION AND OF THE RESULTS
OF ANY REFERENDA THEREON TO THE STATE DEPART-
MENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BY MARCH 1 OF THE
NEXT SUCCEEDING YEAR, OR FAILS OR REFUSES TO CER-
TIFY THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO SUCH ENACTMENTS,
AMENDMENTS, OR REPEALS, OR REFERENDA, DURING THE
LAST CALENDAR OR FISCAL YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT
SHALL PROMPTLY CERTIFY THAT FACT TO THE STATE
COMPTROLLER, WHO THEN MAY ORDER THE DISCONTINU-
ANCE OF ALL FUNDS, GRANTS OR STATE AID WHICH THE
CODE COUNTY IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER STATE
LAW. THIS SECTION REFERS SPECIFICALLY TO ALL
FUNDS, GRANTS OR STATE AID WHICH THE CODE COUNTY
IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER APPLICABLE PROVI-
SIONS OF STATE LAW RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX,
THE TAX ON RACING, THE RECORDATION TAX, THE TAX
ON AMUSEMENTS, AND THE LICENSE TAX.

(e)(G) The State Department of Legislative Reference shall re-
ceive the several compilations and statements thus delivered to it.
They shall be arranged in a logical and convenient order and shall
be delivered to the State printer for inclusion in the Session Laws
of the General Assembly for its Regular Session in that year. The
laws of the code counties shall be printed and identified as such, and
they shall be indexed with the laws enacted by the General As-
sembly.

Powers of Code Counties

13. In general.

If a county adopts code home rule status under the provisions of
Article 11F of the Constitution of the State and this Article, it may
exercise those powers enumerated in Section 3 of Article 25 and in
Section 5 of Article 25A, except for subsections (A), (P) and
(S) of Section 5 of Article 25A, of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1957 Edition as amended; and no county adopting code home rule