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Amendments to Maryland Constitutions
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PROVIDED IN SECTION 3 (B) HEREOF. If before said first
day of June there shall have been filed with the
Secretary of the State a petition to refer to a vote of
the people any law or part of a law capatle of
referendum, as in this Article provided, the same shall
be referred by the Secretary of State to such vote, and
shall not become a law or take effect until thirty days
after its approval by a majority of the electors voting
thereon at the next ensuing election held throughout the
State for Members of the House of Representatives of the
United States. An emergency law shall remain in force
notwithstanding such petition, but shall stand repealed
thirty days after having been rejected by a majority of
the qualified electors voting thereon[; provided,
however, that no]. NO measure creating or abolishing any
office, or changing the salary, term or duty of any
officer, or granting any franchise or special privilege,
or creating any vested right or interest, shall be
enacted as an emergency lav. No law making any
appropriation for maintaining the State Government, or
for maintaining or aiding any public institution, not
exceeding the next previous appropriation for the same
purpose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under
this Section. The increase in any such appropriation
for maintaining or aiding any public institution shall
only take effect as in the case of other laws, and such
increase or any part thereof specified in the petition,
may be referred to a vote of the people upon petition.
6.
No law [or Constitutional Amendment], licensing,
regulating, prohibiting, or submitting to local option,
the manufacture or sale of malt or spirituous liquors,
shall be referred or repealed under [any Act of] the
provisions of this Article.
Article XVII - Quadrennial Elections
[11-] 1.
The purpose of this Article is to reduce the number
of elections[,] by providing that all State and county
elections shall be held only in every fourth year, and at
the time [now] provided by law for holding congressional
elections[; ], and to bring the terms of appointive
officers into harmony with the changes effected in the
time of the beginning of the terms of elective officers!;
and the]. THE administrative and judicial officers of the
State shall construe the provisions of this Article so as
to effectuate that purpose. For the purpose of this
Article only the word "officers" shall be construed to
include those holding positions and other places of
employment in the state and county governments whose
terms are fixed by law, but it shall not include any
appointments made by the Board of Public Works, nor
appointments by the Governor for terms of three years.


 
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