Wicomico County                                 2449

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF
WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND, that Section 309(a), title, "Power
reserved" of Article III entitled "The Legislative Branch" of the Charter
of Wicomico County, Maryland, be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Section 309(a) Power reserved. The people of Wicomico County re-
serve to themselves the power, by petition, to have submitted to the
registered voters of the County, for approval or rejection by them by a
majority vote, at the next regular [or special] election [in Wicomico
County] for any state or federal office, OR AT A SPECIAL ELECTION
TO BE CALLED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL NOT LESS THAN
THIRTY (30) DAYS NOR MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY
(120) DAYS AFTER SAID PETITIONS HAVE BEEN FILED, PRO-
VIDED THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL SHALL HAVE NO AUTHOR-
ITY TO CALL SAID SPECIAL ELECTION IN THE EVENT A REGU-
LAR ELECTION FOR ANY STATE OR FEDERAL OFFICE SHALL
BE PROVIDED WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY (180) DAYS OF
THE DATE SAID PETITIONS WERE FILED, any public local law or
any part of any public local law hereinafter passed, including any public
local law or any part of any public local law authorizing any issue of bonds,
certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other obligations of the County, or
renewal thereof.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, that this Act, having
been approved by not less than four members of the County Council of
Wicomico County, said proposed amendments shall be published by the
Administrative Director in one or more newspapers of general circulation
in Wicomico County once each week for five successive weeks prior to the
next General election or Congressional election occurring after the passage
hereof and at said election the question shall be submitted to the voters of
the County and if at said election the majority of the votes cast on the
question shall be in favor of the herein proposed amendments, such amend-
ments shall stand adopted and become a part of the Charter of Wicomico
County, Maryland, from and after the thirtieth day following said election
in accordance with Article XI, Section 1102 of the Charter of Wicomico
County, Maryland.

CERTIFIED CORRECT AS PASSED

Richard S. Wootten, President
David H. Clark, Secretary

I HEREBY CERTIFY that Twenty-five (25) copies of the above Bill
are available for distribution to the public and press at the time of its
introduction.

David H. Clark, Secretary

Legislative Session (Second) June, 1970

Chapter 6

(Bill No. 6)

Introduced June 1, 1970

BY: Mr. Wootten, Mr. Riley, Mr. Burnett, Mr. Grier and Mr. Insley

An Act to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Article III, en-
titled "The Legislative Branch," Section 309(b), title, "Petitions; when
filed" of the Charter of Wicomico County, Maryland, as adopted by