MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401 (ONE COPY)

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
7 of Article 25B — Home Pule for Code Counties, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1973 Replacement Volume and
1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 25B — Home Rule for Code Counties

7.

(A)    The board of supervisors of elections, at the
next regular congressional election and in accordance
with requirements as to time, notice, and form in Article
33 of this Code, shall submit the question of code home
rule status to the registered voters of the county for
their adoption or rejection. The ballots or voting
machine labels, as the case may be, shall contain the
words "For Adoption of Code Home Rule Status" and
"Against Adoption of Code Home Rule Status." If a
majority of those who vote on the question cast their
votes in favor of adoption, the board of county
commissioners publicly shall so proclaim within ten days
after receiving a certification of the votes from the
board of supervisors of elections; and on the thirtieth
day following the public proclamation the county shall
become a code home rule county. If a majority of those
persons who vote on the question cast their votes against
adoption, the board of county commissioners likewise
shall so proclaim, and in this event the proposal is
rejected at that election.

(B)    WHENEVER THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROCLAIM THE
ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF CODE HOME RULE STATUS, THEY
SHALL SEND NOTIFICATION PROMPTLY TO THE FOLLOWING STATE
AGENCIES:

(1)    STATE DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE
P.O. BOX 348

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21404 (FIVE COPIES)

(2)    SECRETARY OF STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE HOUSE

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21404 (ONE COPY)

(3)    HALL OF RECORDS
P.O. BOX 828

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21404 (ONE COPY)

(4)    STATE LIBRARY

COURTS OF APPEAL BUILDING

ROWE BOULEVARD AND TAYLOR AVENUE

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401 (ONE COPY)

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.