Ch. 665                           MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                              1389

[[(H)]] (I) IF THE UNIFIED MUNICIPAL CHARTER IS NOT
APPROVED BY THE REQUIRED VOTE AT A REFERENDUM ELECTION
HELD PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, THE PROPOSED UNIFICATION
SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.

[[(I)]] (J) WITHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE UNIFIED CHARTER IS
ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODIES OF THE UNIFYING
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OR BY A REFERENDUM ELECTION,
THE [[COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OR COUNTY COUNCIL WHERE
THE UNIFIED MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IS LOCATED SHALL]]
LEGISLATIVE BODIES OF THE. UNIFYING MUNICIPAL
CORPORATIONS SHALL JOINTLY SEND BY REGISTERED MAIL TO
THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND AND TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE, THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CHARTER ADOPTED BY THE
UNIFIED MUNICIPAL CORPORATION: (1) THE COMPLETE TEXT
THEREOF, AND (2) THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CHARTER. IF A
REFERENDUM ELECTION WAS HELD, THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION SHALL ALSO BE SENT BY REGISTERED MAIL TO
THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND AND TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE; (1) THE DATE OF THE
REFERENDUM ELECTION, AND (2) THE NUMBER OF VOTES CAST
FOR AND AGAINST THE ADOPTION OF THE UNIFIED CHARTER.

[[(J)]] (K) THE EXACT TEXT OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNIFIED
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, ADOPTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS ARTICLE AND AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, SHALL
THEREAFTER BE INCLUDED IN ANY EDITION OR CODIFICATION OF
THE CHARTER OF THE UNIFIED MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 24, 1973.

CHAPTER 665

(Senate Bill 231)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 49(g) of Article 26 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland ([[1972]] 1971 Supplement), title "Courts,"
subtitle "Pensions of Judges and Their Widows," to provide a pension for a
judge who resigns before he is sixty years of age, and providing for the
computation of this pension.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 49(g) of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland ([[1972]] 1971 Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "Pensions of
Judges and Their Widows," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

49.

(g) A judge who because of incapacitating illness resigns his position prior to
reaching his sixtieth birthday is entitled to benefits under the provisions of this
section immediately upon his resignation, but in no event in a sum greater than