Task: Text Completion
Input (English): assign to elected government: "Initiative refers to the process by which the electorate petitions for and votes on a proposed law. Referendum is the process by which legislation passed by the governing body is submitted to the electorate for approval or disapproval.” Smallwood, 327 Md. at 232, n. 6, 608 A.2d at 1228, n. 6, and authorities there cited. The power to initiate local legislation is repugnant to Art. XI-A, § 3, of the Maryland Constitution, which vests a charter county’s "full” lawmaking power in the county council. Under the Maryland Constitution, however, county voters do have a right to reserve to themselves the power to petition for a referendum on legislation previously enacted by a county council. See Ritchmount Partnership v. Board, 283 Md. 48, 388 A.2d 523 (1978) (<HOLDING>). In Smallwood, we reiterated the distinction 
 Holding statements: (A) holding a county and a road district had standing to sue state highway commission and county tax collector based on their interest in and control over the public roads of the county (B) holding that the county had no standing to sue the state to recover taxes illegally obtained from citizens unless the money belongs to the county (C) recognizing county officers as  those whose general authority and jurisdiction are confined within the limits of the county in which they are appointed who are appointed in and for a particular county and whose duties apply only to that county and through whom the county performs its usual political functions  (D) holding that both saline county and grant county had jurisdiction to try the appellant for murder where the actual killing occurred in one county but the acts requisite to the consummation of the murder and the subsequent disposal of the body occurred in the other county (E) holding that art xia conferred on the citizens of anne arundel county the right to reserve to themselves by express charter provision the power to refer legislation enacted by their county council
Output (English): (E)