HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1301

principal to be discharged within fifteen years of the date
of issue of the bonds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 458

(Senate Bill 523)

AN ACT concerning

Salaries of Elected Municipal Officials

FOR the purpose of eliminating the requirement that an
election be held in order to approve each change in the
salaries of elected municipal officials.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 23A — Corporations — Municipal

Section 2(26)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 23A - Corporations — Municipal

2.

The legislative body of every incorporated municipality
in this State, except Baltimore City, by whatever name
known, shall have general power to pass such ordinances not
contrary to the public general or public local laws and the
Constitution of Maryland as they may deem necessary in order
to assure the good government of the municipality, to
protect and preserve the municipality's rights, property,
and privileges, to preserve peace and good order, to secure
persons and property from danger and destruction, and to
protect the health, comfort and convenience of the citizens
of the municipality; but nothing in this article shall be
construed to authorize the legislative body of any
incorporated municipality to pass any ordinance which is
inconsistent or in conflict with any ordinance, rule or
regulation passed, ordained or adopted by the
Maryland—National Capital Park and Planning Commission and
the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and nothing in