MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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Article VII - Sundry Officers

2.

(a)    The qualified voters of each County shall, on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of
November, in the year nineteen hundred and fifty—eight,
and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter,
elect a Surveyor for each County whose term of office
shall commence on the first Monday of January next
ensuing their election, and whose duties and compensation
shall be the same as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by Law. And any vacancy in the Office of
Surveyor, shall be filled by the Commissioners of the
counties, or by the County Council of Chartered Counties
for the residue of the term.

(b)    This section shall not apply to Allegany, Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil,
CHARLES, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard,
Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St.
Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, and
Worcester counties, provided, [however,] that the Office
of County Surveyor in Montgomery [County] AND CHARLES
COUNTIES shall not be abolished until the completion of
the term of any incumbent elected at the election at
which this clause is approved by the voters.

SECTION 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, 1978, 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. At that 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 Amendments" and "Against
the Constitutional Amendments," as now provided by law.
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 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 557
(Senate Bill 43)
AN ACT concerning