invalid, unconstitutional, or duplicative; or (2) embodying
in a single Constitutional amendment one or more Articles
of the Constitution so long as that Constitutional amend-
ment embraces only a single subject. The bill or bills
proposing amendment or amendments shall be publicized,
either by publishing, by order of the Governor in at least
two newspapers, in each County, where so many may be
published, and where not more than one may be published,
then in that newspaper, and in three newspapers published
in the City of Baltimore, once a week for four weeks, or as
otherwise ordered by the Governor in a manner provided
by law, immediately preceding the next ensuing general
election, at which the proposed amendment or amend-
ments shall be submitted, in a form to be prescribed by the
General Assembly to the qualified voters of the State for
adoption or rejection. The votes cast for and against said
proposed amendment or amendments, severally, shall be
returned to the Governor, in the manner prescribed in other
cases, and if it shall appear to the Governor that a majority
of the votes cast at said election on said amendment or
amendments, severalty were cast in favor thereof, the
Governor shall, by nis 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 Con-
stitution. If the General Assembly determines that a pro-
posed 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 amend-
ments shall be submitted to the voters of this State at the
same election, they shall be so submitted as that each
amendment shall be voted on separately

SEC. 1A.207 A proposed Constitutional amendment
which, by provisions that are of limited duration, provides
for a period of transition, or a unique schedule under which
the terms of the amendment are to become effective, shall
set forth those provisions in the amendment as a section or
sections of a separate article, to be known as "provisions of
limited duration", and state the date upon which or the
circumstances under which those provisions shall expire. If
the Constitutional amendment is adopted, those provisions
of limited duration shall have the same force and effect as
any other part of the Constitution, except that they shall
remain apart of the Constitution only so long as their terms
require. Each new section of the article known as "provis-
ions of limited duration" shall refer to the tide and section
of the other article of the Constitution of which it, tempo-
rarily, is a part.

SEC. 2.208 It shall be the duty of the General Assem-
bly to provide by Law for taking, at the general election
to be held in the year nineteen hundred and seventy, and
every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in
regard to calling a Convention for altering this Constitu-
tion; and if a majority of voters at such election or
elections shall vote for a Convention, the General

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Assembly at its next session, shall provide by Law for the
assembling of such convention, and for the election of
Delegates thereto. Each County, and Legislative District
of the City of Baltimore, shall have in such Convention a
number of Delegates equal to its representation in both
Houses at the time at which the Convention is called. But
any Constitution, or change, or amendment of the existing
Constitution, which may be adopted by such Convention,
shall be submitted to the voters of this State, and shall have
no effect unless the same shall have been adopted by a
majority of the voters voting thereon.

ARTICLE XV

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1.209 Every person holding any office cre-
ated by, or existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the
State, or holding any appointment under any Court of this
State, whose pay, or compensation is derived from fees, or
moneys coming into his hands for the discharge of his official
duties, or, in any way, growing out of, or connected with his
office, shall keep a book in which shall be entered every sum,
or sums of money, received by him, or on his account, as a
payment or compensation for his performance of official
duties, a copy of which entries in said book, verified by the
oath of the officer, by whom it is directed to be kept, shall
be returned yearly to the Comptroller of the State for his
inspection, and that of the General Assembly of the State,
to which the Comptroller shall, at each regular session
thereof, make a report showing what officers have com-
plied with this Section; and each of the said officers, when
the amount received by him for the year shall exceed the
sum which he is by Law entitled to retain, as his salary or
compensation for the discharge of his duties, and for the
expenses of his office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer
of the State the amount of such excess, subject to such
disposition thereof as the General Assembly may direct; if
any of such officers shall fail to comply with the requisitions
of this section for the period of thirty days after the
expiration of each and every year of his office, such officer
shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and the Gover-
nor shall declare the same vacant, and the vacancy therein
shall be filled as in the case of vacancy for any other cause,
and such officer shall be subject to suit by the State for the
amount that ought to be paid into the Treasury.

SEC. 2.210 Any elected official of the State, or of a
county or of a municipal corporation who during his term
of office is convicted of or enters a plea of nolo contendere
to any crime which is a felon); or which is a misdemeanor
related to his public duties and responsibilities and involves
moral turpitude for which the penalty may be incarceration
in any penal institution, shall be suspended by operation of
law without pay or benefits from the elective office. During
and for the penod of suspension of the elected official, the
appropriate governing body and/or official authorized by
law to fill any vacancy in the elective office shall ap^nc a
person to temporarily fill the elective office, provided that
if the elective office is one for which automatic succession