The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-10-29

| StlIute the cnarter DOarQ, ana SdlQ
| charter board, or a majority thereof,
shall prepare within six months from
the date of said election a charter or
form of government for said city or
such county and present the same to
the Mayor of Baltimore or President
of the Board Of County Commission
ers of such county, who shall publish
| the same in at least two newspapers
of general circulation published in said
| the City Of Baltimore or county with
| in thirty days after it shall be re-
| ported to him. Such charter shall be
| submitted to the voters of said city
or county at the next general or Con-
| gressfonal election after the report Of
said charter to said Mayor of Bal
! timore or President of the Board OF
| County Commissioners; and if ma
jority of the votes cast for and against
| the adoption of said charter shall be
in favor of such adoption the said
charter from and after the thirtieth
| day from the date of such election
shall become the law of said city or
county, subject only to the Constitu-
tion and Public General Laws of this
State, and any Public Local Laws in
consistent with the provisions of said
charter and former charter of said
the City of Baltimore or county shall
be thereby repealed.
Sec. 2. The General Assembly at it's
| first session after the adoption Of this
| amendment shall, by Public General
Law, provide grant of express pow
/ ers for such county or counties as
may thereafter form charter under
the provisions Of this Article. Such
( express powers granted to the coun-
| ties and the powers heretofore grant
ed to the City of Baltimore, as set
forth n Article 4, Section 6, Public
Local Laws Of Maryland, shall not
be enlarged or extended by any char
ter formed under the provisions of this
Article, but such powers may be ex-
tended, modified, amended or repealed
by the General Assembly.
| Sec. 8. Every charter so formed
shall provide for an elective legisla-
tive body in which shall be vested the
law-making power of said city or coun-
ty. Such legislative body in the City
of Baltimore shall be known as the
City Council Of the City of Baltimore,
and in any county shall be known as
the County Council Of the county. The
chief executive officer, If any such
charter shall provide for the election
of such executive officer, or the presid-
ing officer Of said legislative body, if
such charter shall not provide for
the election of chief executive Off
Ger, shall be known in the City of
Baltimore as Mayor Of Baltimore, and
in any county as the President of the
County Council of the county, and all
references in the Constitution and
laws of this State to the Mayor of
Baltimore and City Council of the City
of Baltimore or to the County Com
missioners Of the counties shall be
construed to refer to the Mayor Of
Baltimore and City Council of the City
of Baltimore and to the President
and County Council herein provided
for, whenever such construction would
be reasonable. From and after the
adoption of charter by the City OF
as hereinbefore provided, the Mayor
of Baltimore and City Council Of the
| City of Baltimore or the County Coun-
Gil of said county, subject to the Con-
stitution and Public General Laws of
this State, shall have full power to
enact local laws of said city or coun-
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amend Local Laws of said city or
county enacted by the General Assem-
bly,, upon all matters covered by the
express powers granted as above pro-
.vided; provided that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to au-
thorize or empower the County Coun-
Gil of any county in this State to en-
act laws or regulations for any in
corporated town, village, or munici-
pality in said county, on any matter
covered by the powers granted to said
town, village, or municipality by the
Act incorporating it, or any subse
quent Act or Acts amendatory there
to. Provided, however, that the char
ters for the various counties shall
provide that the County Council of
the counties shall not sit more than
one month in each year for the pur-
pose of enacting legislation for such
counties, and all legislation shall be
enacted during the month so designat-
ed for that purpose in the charter, and
all laws and ordinances SO enacted
shall be published once a week for
three successive weeks in at least
one newspaper published in such coun-
ties, SO that the taxpayers and citi-
zens may have notice thereof. This
provision shall not apply to Baltimore
city. All such local laws enacted by
the Mayor of Baltimore and City Coun-
Gil of the City of Baltimore or the
Council of the counties, as hereinbe-
fore provided shall be subject to the
same rules Of Interpretation as those
now applicable to the Public Local
Laws of this State, except that in
case of any conflict between said Lo-
cal Law and any Public General Law
| now or hereafter enacted, the Public
General Law shall control.
Sec L. From and after the adop-
ton Of a chapter under the provisions
of this Article by the City of Balti-
more or any county OF this State, no
Public Local Law shall be enacted by
the General Assembly for said city or
county on any subject covered by the
express powers granted as above pro-
vided Any law SO drawn as to apply
to two or more of the geographical
! sub divisions of this State shall not be
| deemed Local Law, within the mean
! ing of this Act. The term ''geograph-
| ical subdivision" herein used shall be
taken to mean the City of Baltimore
or any of the counties of this State.
| Sec. s. Amendments to any charter
adopted by the City of Baltimore or
by any county of this State under the
provisions of this Article may be pro-
posed by resolution of the Mayor of
Baltimore and the City Council Of said
City of Baltimore or the Council of said
county, or by petition signed by
not less than 20 per cent. of the regis
tered voters of said city or county,
provided, however, that in any case
10000 signatures shall be sufficient to
complete a petition, and filed with
the Mayor of Baltimore or the Presi-
dent Of the County Council, and when
so proposed shall be submitted to the
voters of said city or county at the
next General or Congressional elec-
ton occurring after the passage OF
said resolution, or the filing of said
petition, and If at said election the
majority Of the votes cast for and
against said amendment shall be in
favor thereof, said amendment SHALL
be adopted and become a part of the
charter of said city or county from