1232                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 372

to enact local laws of said City or County including the power to
repeal or amend local laws of said City or County enacted by the
General Assembly, upon all matters covered by the express powers
granted as above provided; provided that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to authorize or empower the County Council of any
County in this State to enact laws or regulations for any incorpo-
rated town, village, or municipality in said County, on any matter
covered by the powers granted to said town, village, or municipality
by the Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory
thereto. Provided, however, that the charters for the various Counties
shall specify the number of days, not to exceed forty-five, which
may but need not be consecutive, that the County Council of the
Counties may sit in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation
for such Counties, and all legislation shall be enacted at the times so
designated for that purpose in the charter, and the title or a fair
summary of all laws and ordinances [so enacted] proposed shall be
published once a week for [three] two successive weeks prior to
enactment followed by publication once after enactment in at least
one newspaper [published in such Counties] of general circulation
in the county, so that the taxpayers and citizens may have notice
thereof. The validity of emergency legislation shall not be affected if
enacted prior to the completion of advertising thereof. [This provi-
sion] These provisions concerning publication shall not apply to Balti-
more City. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore
and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the
Counties as hereinbefore provided, shall be subject to the same rules
of interpretation as those now applicable to the Public Local Laws
of this State, except that in case of any conflict between said local
law and any Public General Law now or hereafter enacted the
Public General Law shall control.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, at
the next general election to be held in this State in November 1972,
shall be submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection in pursuance of directions contained in Article
XIV of the Constitution of this State; and at this general election,
the vote on this proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words "For
the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the Constitutional
Amendment" as now provided by law, and, immediately after the
election, all returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for
and against the proposed amendment, as directed by Article XIV of
the Constitution, and further proceedings had in accordance with
Article XIV.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 372
(Senate Bill 3)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 34 of Article III of
the Constitution of Maryland, title "Legislative Department,"
changing the taxing requirement for bills that create a State debt,