SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor 985
(d) In addition to furnishing copies of the compilation to the
State Department of Legislative Reference, the charter county shall
provide to the Department a statement concerning any referendum
on 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 here required the particular law
is automatically revoked and of no further effect. In this latter 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 ADDRESS AN INQUIRY TO EACH CHARTER
COUNTY INQUIRING WHETHER OR NOT DURING THAT
CALENDAR YEAR OR ITS LATEST FISCAL YEAR IT HAS
ENACTED, AMENDED OR REPEALED ANY PORTION OF
ITS LAWS UNDER THE "EXPRESS POWERS ACT." THE
CHARTER COUNTY SHALL PROMPTLY ANSWER THE
INQUIRY AND SHALL VERIFY THAT COPIES OF ALL
SUCH ENACTMENTS, AMENDMENTS, OR REPEALS HAVE
ALREADY BEEN SENT TO THE DEPARTMENT.
(F) IF THE CHARTER COUNTY FAILS OR REFUSES
TO SUPPLY COPIES OF THIS COMPILATION AND OF THE
RESULTS OF ANY REFERENDA THEREON TO THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BY MARCH
1 OF THE NEXT SUCCEEDING YEAR, OR FAILS OR
REFUSES TO CERTIFY 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 DISCONTINUANCE OF ALL FUNDS,
GRANTS OR STATE AID WHICH THE CHARTER COUNTY
IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER STATE LAW. THIS
SECTION REFERS SPECIFICALLY TO ALL FUNDS, GRANTS
OR STATE AID WHICH THE CHARTER COUNTY IS EN-
TITLED TO RECEIVE UNDER APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF
STATE LAW RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX, THE TAX
ON RACING, THE RECORDATION TAX, THE TAX ON AMUSE-
MENTS, 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 charter counties shall be printed and identified as such, and
they shall be indexed with the laws enacted by the General Assembly.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That as of December 31, 1967,
each charter county shall publish FURNISH a separate compilation
of all laws enacted by it during the CALENDAR OR FISCAL year
1966 and all prior years, under the "Express Powers Act" in Section
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