HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3797

(F) IF A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST ON THE QUESTION
ARE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, BUT NO CHARTER AMENDMENT IS ADOPTED
AT THE 1984 GENERAL ELECTION.

(1) A NEW COMMISSION SHALL BE ELECTED AT THE
1988 PRIMARY ELECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF
SUBSECTIONS (D) AND (E)(2) AND (3) OF THIS SECTION;

(2) IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBSECTIONS (E)(4), (5),
AND (6) OF THIS SECTION, THE NEW COMMISSION SHALL DEVELOP
AND RECOMMEND AN AMENDMENT TO THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHARTER
THAT PROVIDES FOR A SINGLE SPECIFIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE
COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF NOMINATION AND/OR ELECTION OF THE
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL;

(3) THAT AMENDMENT SHALL APPEAR ON THE 1988
GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT WITH SUCH ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVES AS
MAY BE PLACED ON THAT BALLOT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHARTER; AND

(4) THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL IN 1990 SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
ANY CHARTER AMENDMENT ADOPTED AT THE 1988 GENERAL ELECTION.

(C) OTHER THAN AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, NO

AMENDMENT TO THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHARGER AUTHORIZED UNDER
THIS CHAPTER MAY BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS UNTIL 1990.
THIS SECTION SHALL BE DELETED FROM THE CONSTITUTION ON
JANUARY 1, 1990, OR, IF EARLIER, ON JANUARY 1 OF THE YEAR
FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL BY A
CHARTER AMENDMENT ADOPTED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THIS
SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the General
Assembly determines that the amendment to the Constitution
of Maryland proposed by this Act affects only one county and
that the provisions of Article XIV, Section 1 of the
Constitution concerning local approval of constitutional
amendments apply.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
aforegoing section proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of Maryland shall be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of this State at the next general election
to be held in November, 1982 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