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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

emergency appropriations, the County Council may, by
ordinance, authorize the issuance of emergency notes
which may be renewed from time to time, provided,
however, that such notes and renewals shall be paid
not later than the last day of the fiscal year next
succeeding that in which the emergency appropriation
was made. The total of emergency appropriations in
any fiscal year shall not exceed five per centum of
all appropriations (including those for debt service)
made in the budget for such year.

[(c) Supplementary and emergency appropriation
ordinances. Ordinances providing for supplementary
and emergency appropriations in accordance with this
section may, but need not, be acted upon on a
legislative session-day, and if such bill is one de-
clared by the County Council to be an emergency
ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health, safety and welfare, it shall
take effect from the date it becomes law.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That if
any provision of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid
for any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the
other provisions or any other application, and to this
end, all the provisions of this ordinance are hereby
declared to be severable.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That at
the next general election to be held in this State on
November 7, 1972, the foregoing section hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Charter of Anne
Arundel County shall be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of Anne Arundel County for their
adoption or rejection pursuant to Section 1202 of the
Charter of Anne Arundel County and at said general
election, the vote on the said proposed amendment to
the Charter shall be by ballot; and upon each ballot
there shall be printed the words "For the Charter
Amendment" and "Against the Charter Amendment". If a
majority of the votes cast in said election shall be
in favor of the proposed amendment, such amendment
shall stand adopted from and after the thirtieth
(30th) day following said election; but if a majority
of the votes cast in the election shall be against the
proposed amendment, then the provisions of this
ordinance shall be null and void and of no effect.