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Session Laws, 1977
Volume 735, Page 2741   View pdf image
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2741
MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
shall, by his proclamation, declare the said amendment or
amendments having received said majority of votes, to
have been adopted by the people of Maryland as part of
the Constitution thereof, and thenceforth said amendment
or amendments shall be part of the said Constitution. IF
A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AFFECTS ONLY ONE COUNTY OR THE CITY OF BALTIMORE AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SO DECLARES IN THE BILL PROPOSING THE AMENDMENT, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL BE PART OF THE CONSTITUTION IF
IT RECEIVES A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST IN THE STATE AND IN THE AFFECTED COUNTY OR CITY OF BALTIMORE, AS THE CASE MAY BE. IF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DETERMINES THAT A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AFFECTS ONLY ONE COUNTY
OR THE CITY Of BALTIMORE, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHALL BE
PART OF THE CONSTITUTION IF IT RECEIVES A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST IN THE STATE AND IN THE AFFECTED COUNTY OR CITY OF BALTIMORE, AS THE CASE MAY BE. When two or more
amendments shall be submitted in manner aforesaid, to the
voters of this State at the same election, they shall be
so submitted as that each amendment shall be voted on
separately.
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 25, 1977.
CHAPTER 680
(House Bill 337)
AN ACT concerning
Amendments to the Constitution - Provisions of
Limited Duration FOR the purpose of providing for provisions of limited
duration which implement a Constitutional amendment;
providing for a new article in the Constitution


 
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