This file was prepared by The MD State Archives, then coded by Randy Moore, then John Wallis worked on it on 12/10/01 This is ready to go JW 1.5.02 It contains amendments 58-133. *** CSTART MD 08/17/1867 12/31/2000 *** *** MSTART 058 031.A 004.0 4 MD 1867 1926 *** [Act of 1924, CHAPTER 116. Ratified 1926] 31-A. In addition to the authority granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by the proceeding section to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme Bench the annual sum of Five Hundred Dollars, authority is hereby given to said Mayor and City Council to pay to each of said judges such further annual sum as an addition to their respective salaries as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall from time to time deem right and proper, provided, that any such sum being once granted shall not be diminished during the continuance of said Judges in office. [Approved April 9, 1924.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 059 009.0 005.0 0 MD 1867 1924 *** [Act of 1924, CHAPTER 177. Ratified 1924] SEC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not exceeding three thousand dollars,, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive any other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall have the power to appoint a Deputy and such other Assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy and Assistants shall receive the following annual salaries: State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars, Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand dollars. Assistant State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or such salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide, and such expense for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the extent that the total of them exceeds the fees of his office, or as the General Assembly shall otherwise provide, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable for appearance fees to the State's Attorney. [Approved April 9, 1924.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 060 034.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1924 *** [Act of 1924, CHAPTER 327. Ratified 1924.] Section 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by a law providing for the collection of an annual tax or taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to discharge the principal thereof within fifteen years from the time of contracting the same; and the taxes laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any other object until the said debt and interest thereon shall be fully discharged. The credit of the State shall not in any manner be given, or loaned to, or in aid of any individual association or corporation; nor shall the General Assembly have the power in any mode to involve the State in the construction, of works of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto which shall involve the faith or credit of the State; nor make any appropriation therefor, except in aid of the Construction of works of internal improvement in the counties of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert, which have had no direct advantage from such works as have been heretofore aided by the State; and provided that such aid, advances or appropriations shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. And they shall not use or appropriate the proceeds of the internal improvement companies, or of the State tax, now levied, or which may hereafter be levied, to pay off the public debt (or) to any other purpose until the interest and debt are fully paid or the sinking fund shall be equal to the amount of the outstanding debt; but the General Assembly may, without laying a tax, borrow an amount never to exceed fifty thousand dollars to meet temporary deficiencies in the Treasury, and may contract debts to any amount that may be necessary for the defense of the State. And provided further that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the raising of funds for the purpose of aiding or compensating in such manner or way as the General Assembly of the State shall deem proper, those citizens of the State who have served, with honor, their Country and State in time of War; provided, however, that such action of the General Assembly shall be effective only when submitted to and approved by a vote of the people of the State at the General Election next following the enactment of such legislation. [Approved April 9, 1924.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 061 002.0 006.0 0 MD 1867 1930 *** [Act of 1929, CHAPTER 133. Ratified 1930.] 2. The Comptroller shall have the general superintendence of the fiscal affairs of the State; he shall digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of the public credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue and expenditures of the State; superintend and enforce the prompt collection of all taxes and revenue; adjust and settle, on terms prescribed by law, with delinquent collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue; preserve all public accounts; and decide on the forms of keeping and stating accounts. He, or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature, shall grant, under regulations prescribed by Law, all warrants for money to be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law, and countersign all checks drawn by the Treasurer upon any bank or banks in which the moneys of the State, may, from time to time, be deposited. He shall prescribe the formalities of the transfer of stock, or other evidence of the State debt, and countersign the same, without which such evidence shall not be valid; he shall make to the General Assembly full reports of all his proceedings, and of the state of the Treasury Department within ten days after the commencement of each Session; and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by law. [Approved April 2, 1930.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 062 003.0 006.0 0 MD 1867 1930 *** 3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of the State, and, until otherwise prescribed by law, deposit them, as soon as received, to the credit of the State, in such bank or banks as he may, from time to time, with the approval of the Governor, select (the said bank or banks giving security, satisfactory to the Governor, for the safekeeping and forthcoming, when required of said deposits), and he or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature shall disburse the same for the purposes of the State according to law, upon warrants drawn by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and on checks countersigned by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and not otherwise. The Treasurer or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature shall take receipts for all moneys paid from the Treasury Department; and receipt for moneys received by him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the Comptroller, or such deputy as may be authorized to do so by law, without which warrants, so signed, no acknowledgment of money received into the Treasury shall be valid; and upon warrants issued by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer shall make arrangements for the payment of the interest of the public debt, and for the purchase thereof, on account of the sinking fund. Every bond, certificate, or other evidence of the debt of the State shall be signed by the Treasurer, and countersigned by the Comptroller; and no new certificate or other evidence intended to replace another shall be issued until the old one shall be delivered to the Treasurer, and authority executed in due form for the transfer of the same filed in his office, and the transfer accordingly made on the books thereof, and the certificate or other evidence cancelled ; but the Legislature may make provisions for the loss of certificates, or other evidences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law. the manner in which the Treasurer shall receive and keep the moneys of the State. [Approved April 2, 1930.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 063 015.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1930 *** [Act of 1929, CHAPTER 348. Ratified 1930.] 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not longer than ninety days; and each member thereof shall receive a compensation of fifteen dollars per diem for every day he shall attend the session, but not for such days as he may be absent, unless absent on account of sickness or by leave of the House of which he is a member; and- he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the presiding officer of each House shall receive an additional compensation of ten dollars per day. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, and in such case the compensation shall be the same as herein prescribed. [Approved April 11, 1929.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 064 003.0 004.0 1 MD 1867 1932 *** [Act of 1931, CHAPTER 479. Ratified 1932.] 3. The Judges of the said several Courts shall be elected in the Counties by the qualified voters in their respective Judicial Circuits as hereinafter provided, and in the City of Baltimore, at the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as now provided for in the Constitution. Each of the said Judges shall hold his-office for the term of fifteen years from the time of his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified,. or until he shall have attained the age of seventy years,, whichever may first happen, and be re-eligible thereto until he shall have attained the age of seventy years, and not after. Provided, however, that any judge whose term has been extended beyond the age of seventy years by the General Assembly prior to April 7, 1931, shall be permitted to continue in office in accordance with the resolution of the General Assembly in each case. In case of the inability of any of said Judges to discharge his duties with efficiency, by reason of continued sickness, or of physical or mental infirmity, it shall be in the power of the General Assembly, two-thirds of the members of each House concurring, with the approval of the Governor, to retire said Judge from office. [SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect June 1st, 1931. Approved April 17, 1931.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 065 007.0 011.0 0 MD 1867 1934 *** [Act of 1933, CHAPTER 456. Ratified 1934.] Section 7. From and after the adoption of this Constitution, no debt (except as hereinafter excepted), shall be created by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association, or corporation; nor shall the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have the power to involve the City of Baltimore in the construction of works of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto, which shall involve the faith and credit of the city, nor make any appropriation therefor, unless such debt or credit be authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, and by an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, submitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, at such time and place as may be fixed by said ordinance, and approved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and place; such ordinance shall provide for the discharge of any such debt or credit within the period of forty (40) years from the time of contracting the same; but the Mayor and City Council may, temporarily, borrow any amount of money to meet any deficiency in the City Treasury, and may borrow any amount at any time to pro-vide for any emergency arising from the necessity of maintaining the police, or preserving the health, safety and sanitary condition of the city, and may make due and proper arrangements and agreements for the renewal and extension, in whole or in part, of any and all debts and obligations created according to law before the adoption of this Constitution. [SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1933. Approved April 21, 1933.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 066 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1936 *** 21. For each of the said circuits, excepting the eighth and the third-and the sixth, there shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided, and for the third circuit and for the sixth circuit, there shall be a chief judge and three associate judges to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. And no two of said associate judges, for any of the said circuits, except the third and sixth circuits shall, at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in the same county. If two or more persons shall be candidates for associate judge in the same county in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth circuits, that one only in said county shall be declared elected who has the highest number of votes in the circuit. In case any two candidates for associate judge in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth circuits, residing in the same county shall have an equal number of votes greater than any other candidates for associate judge in the circuit, it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for one associate judge; but the person residing in any other county of the circuit and who has the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The said judges shall hold not less than two terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter be prescribed to which jurors shall be summoned; and in those counties where only two such terms are held, two other and intermediate terms, to which jurors shall not be summoned; they may alter or fix the times for holding any or all terms, until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to the end that all business not requiring the interposition of the jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said intermediate terms. One judge in each of the above circuits, including the third and sixth circuits, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges or any of them may hold special terms of their courts, whenever in their discretion, the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. The additional associate judge for the third circuit herein provided for (shall be elected by the qualified voters of Baltimore and Harford Counties, at the first election that shall be held in said counties subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, and the judge so elected) shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold his office for the same terms of years, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the third circuit. The additional judge for the sixth circuit herein provided for shall be elected by the qualified voters of Frederick and Montgomery Counties at the first election that shall be held in said counties subsequent to the adoption of this amendment and none shall be appointed before that time. The judge so elected shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the sixth circuit. The Chief Judge may be elected from either Frederick or Montgomery Counties, but when the Chief Judge is elected from Frederick County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said County and the two remaining associate judges shall be residents of Montgomery County and when the Chief Judge is elected from Montgomery County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said Montgomery County and the remaining two associate judges residents of Frederick County. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the sixth, judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates as the case may be, residing in the other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said sixth judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. [Approved May 17, 1935.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 067 013.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1936 *** [Act of 1935, CHAPTER 584. Ratified 1936.] Section 13. In case of death, disqualification, resignation, refusal to act, expulsion, or removal from the county or city for which he shall have been elected, of any person who shall have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in case of a tie between two or more such qualified persons, the Governor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy from a person whose name shall be submitted to him in writing by the State Central Committee of the political party with which the Delegate or Senator, so vacating, had been affiliated in the County or District from which he or she was elected, provided that the appointee shall be of the same political party as the person whose office is to be filled; and it shall be the duty of the Governor to make said appointment within fifteen days after the submission thereof to him. In the event there is no State Central Committee in the County or District from which said vacancy is to be filled, the Governor shall within fifteen days after the occurrence of such vacancy appoint a person who is otherwise properly qualified to hold the office of delegate or senator in such District or County. In every case when any person is so appointed by the Governor, his appointment shall be deemed to be for the unexpired term of the person whose office has become vacant. [Approved May 17,1935.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 068 039.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1936 *** [Act of 1936, CHAPTER 151. Ratified 1936] SEC. 39. The books, papers and accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. [This amendment provides for striking out the provision that the General Assembly shall grant no charter for banking purposes, nor renew any banking corporation now in existence, except upon the condition that the stockholders shall be liable to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in such banking institution, for all its debts and liabilities upon note, bill or otherwise; For the Constitutional Amendment Against the Constitutional Amendment as now prescribed by law, and immediately after said election due returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as directed by said Article XIV of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in accordance with said Article XIV of the Constitution. Approved April 29, 1936.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 069 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1938 *** [Act of 1937, CHAPTER 494. Ratified 1938.] 21. For each of the said circuits, excepting the eighth, the second, the third and the sixth, there shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be selected or appointed as herein provided, and for the second circuit, the third circuit and the sixth circuit, there shall be a chief judge and three associate judges to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. And no two of said associate judges, for any of the said circuits, except the third and sixth circuits shall, at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in the same county. If two or more persons shall be candidates for associate judge in the same county in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth circuits, that one only in said county shall be declared elected who has the highest number of votes in the circuit. In case any two candidates for associate judge in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth circuits, residing in the same county shall have an equal number of votes greater than any other candidates for associate judge in the circuit, it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for one associate judge; but the person residing in any other county of the circuit and who has the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The said judges shall hold not less than two terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter be prescribed to which jurors shall be summoned; and in those counties where only two such terms are held, two other and intermediate terms, to which jurors shall not be summoned ; they may alter or fix the times for holding any or all terms, until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to the end that all business not requiring the interposition of the jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said intermediate terms. One judge in each of the above circuits, including the second, the third and sixth circuits, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges or any of them may hold special terms of their courts, whenever in their discretion the business of the several counties renders 'such terms necessary. The additional associate judge for the third circuit elected in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the third circuit. The additional associate judge for the second circuit herein provided for shall be a resident of Cecil County, shall be appointed by the Governor after the expiration of six (6) months after the adoption of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties, constituting the second circuit. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit, and the judge so elected shall be subject to the same constitutional provision, hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation, and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit. The additional judge for the sixth circuit herein provided for and elected by the qualified voters of Frederick and Montgomery Counties at the 1938 election in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the sixth circuit and his successor shall be appointed and/or elected in accordance with the constitutional provisions relating to judges. The Chief Judge may be elected from either Frederick or Montgomery Counties, but when the Chief Judge is elected from Frederick County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said county and the two remaining associate judges shall be residents of Montgomery County and when the Chief Judge is elected from Montgomery County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said Montgomery County and the remaining two associate judges residents of Frederick County. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the sixth judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates as the case may be, residing in the other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said sixth judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. [Approved May 18, 1937.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 070 017.0 004.0 2 MD 1867 1940 *** [Act of 1939, CHAPTER 40. Ratified 1940 (Senate Bill 6)] 17. There shall be a Clerk of the Court of Appeals, who, after the expiration of the current term of the present incumbent, shall be appointed by and shall hold his office at the pleasure of said Court of Appeals. [Approved March 10, 1939.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 071 041.A 004.0 5 MD 1867 1940 *** [Act of 1939 CHAPTER 163. Ratified 1940 (House Bill 22)] PART V-A-PEOPLE'S COURTS. 41-A. There is hereby created a People's Court of Baltimore City. Said Court shall consist originally of a Chief Judge and two Associate Judges; the number of such Judges may thereafter be increased or decreased by the General Assembly by law but no such decrease shall affect the term of any Judge then in office or his right to stand for election for further terms as hereinafter provided. The Judges of said Court shall have the qualifications prescribed by Section 2 of this Article and shall have practiced law in the City of Baltimore for a total period of at least five years; shall hold office subject to the provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of this Article with regard to retirement and removal from office; and shall receive from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City such compensation as shall be fixed by law by the General Assembly, which shall not be diminished during continuance in office. The Governor shall appoint to said Court, to take office on the first Monday of May, 1941, one Associate Judge for a term expiring December 31, 1942, one Associate Judge for a term expiring December 31, 1944, and a Chief Judge for a term expiring December 31, 1946; and, upon the creation of any additional office on said Court by increase in the number of Judges pursuant to this Section, shall appoint an Associate Judge for such term, not exceeding eight years and expiring on the thirty-first day of December immediately following a Congressional election, as the law creating such office shall prescribe. If any vacancy occurs during any such original term, the Governor shall appoint a successor to serve for the remainder of such term. After the expiration of said original terms, the terms of office of said Court shall be for eight years from the expiration of the preceding term, and shall be filled as follows: (1) Any incumbent Judge of said Court shall be eligible, at the Congressional election immediately preceding the expiration of his period of appointment or term, for election or re-election to succeed himself (a) for a full term of eight years, except as provided in (b) hereof; or (b) for the unexpired remainder of the current eight year term, if his appointment will expire before the end of such term. No person other than an incumbent Judge shall be eligible for election to said Court. (2) Whenever a vacancy shall occur on said Court from any cause the Governor shall appoint to said Court a Judge who shall hold office under such appointment until the thirty-first day of December immediately following the first Congressional election occurring six months or more after the date of his appointment. No Judge of said Court, who has stood for election to succeed himself and not been elected, shall thereafter be appointed to said Court, and no Judge of said Court, who has failed to stand for election when eligible, shall be appointed to succeed himself. (3) In order to qualify for election or re-election an incumbent Judge shall file with the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City not later than thirty days before the date of the applicable election a certificate signed and duly acknowledged, stating the basis of his eligibility and the term or remainder of term for which he is eligible for election. Thereupon, the name of such Judge, together with a statement of the term or remainder of term for which he is eligible, shall be placed upon the ballot to be used in said City in such election, with no party designation whatever and with no opposing candidate, with space provided to permit any voter to cast his vote for or against the continuance in office of such Judge; if the votes cast for the continuance in office of such Judge represent a majority of all the votes cast for or against his continuance in office, such Judge shall hold office for the unexpired remainder of the term or for the full term of eight years, as the case may be. Unless his office shall have been abolished pursuant to this Section, each Judge of said Court shall continue to hold office after the expiration of his period of appointment or term until a successor shall qualify. As used in this Section, "Congressional election" means any of the biennial elections at which members of the House of Representatives are regularly chosen. Said Court shall have such jurisdiction (which may be made exclusive as to any class or classes of civil cases in Baltimore City), with such right of appeal, therefrom, and the Chief Judge and Associate Judges thereof shall have such powers and duties, as the General Assembly shall prescribe from time to time by law. The Judges of said Court shall have full power to regulate by rules the administration, procedure and practice of said Court; such rules shall have the force of law until rescinded or modified by said Judges or the General Assembly. Unless otherwise provided by law, (1) all powers granted by this Section or by law to said Court or the Judges thereof as a body may be exercised by a majority of the Judges thereof, and (2) said Court shall not be a Court of Record. There shall be a Chief Constable of said Court, who shall perform therein the duties prescribed for Clerks of Court by Section 10 of this Article and such other duties as shall be prescribed by law or by rule of said Court. Such Chief Constable shall be appointed, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, by the Judges of said Court; and such Chief Constable shall appoint, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, all original, subsequent and additional constables and clerks employed pursuant to this Section, and shall supervise and direct the work of all such constables and clerks. There shall be appointed originally fourteen such constables and sixteen such clerks; the number of either may, on the joint recommendation of said Court and said Chief Constable, be increased by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City; no vacancy in the position of any constable or clerk, however arising, shall be filled by said Chief Constable unless the Judges of said Court and said Chief Constable shall expressly find that the filling of such vacancy is necessary for the efficient operation of said Court. The positions of said Chief Constable and of all such constables and clerks shall be positions in the Classified City Service of Baltimore and the provisions of the Charter of said City with respect to said City Service are hereby expressly made applicable thereto, provided that, the Chief Constable at the time this amendment becomes effective shall continue and remain in said position and immediately become a member of said Classified City Service of Baltimore; all such positions shall be classified by the City Service Commission and all appointments, promotions, transfers, reinstatements, and removals with respect to such positions shall be made only in accordance with the provisions, rules and regulations of said Classified City Service in force from time to time. Such Chief Constable and all of such other constables and all such clerks shall receive from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City such compensation as said Mayor and City Council shall prescribe. Such constables and clerks shall perform such duties as may now or hereafter be prescribed by law or rule of Court. After adoption of this Section no constable shall be appointed by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City pursuant to Section 42 or Section 43 of this Article IV, but constables in office upon the adoption of this Section shall hold office for the remainder of their terms, and the constables first appointed under this Section shall take office at the expiration of such terms. 41-B. The General Assembly shall have power by law to establish a People's Court in any county, or any part thereof, incorporated city or town in this State, except Baltimore City, and to prescribe and from time to time to alter (1) the number, qualifications, tenure, and method of selection of the Judges of any such Court, and their powers, duties and compensation, except that the term of office or compensation of any Judge shall not be reduced during his continuance in office; (2) the jurisdiction of any such Court (which may be made exclusive as to any class or classes of civil cases in such county, or any part thereof, city or town) and the right of appeal therefrom; (3) the number, qualifications, tenure, method of selection, duties, and compensation of all constables, clerks or other employees for such Court; and (4) all other matters relating to such Court. After adoption of this Section the Governor shall not be required to appoint any particular number of Justices of the Peace in any county or in any of the several election districts of the counties as now provided in Section 42 of the Constitution. [Approved April 26, 1939.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 072 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1940 *** [Act of 1939, CHAPTER 200. Ratified 1940 (Senate Bill 52)] 21. For each of the said circuits, excepting the eighth, the second, the third (and) the sixth and the seventh, there shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be selected or appointed as herein provided, and for the second circuit, the third circuit, (and) the sixth circuit, and the seventh circuit, there shall be a chief judge and three associate judges to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. And no two of said associate judges, for any of the said circuits, except the third and sixth and seventh circuits shall, at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in the same county. If two or more persons shall be candidates for associate judge in the same county in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth and seventh circuits, that one only in said county shall be declared elected who has the highest number of votes in the circuit. In case any two candidates for associate judge in any of the circuits, except the third and sixth and seventh circuits, residing in the same county shall have an equal number of votes greater than any other candidates for associate judge in the circuit, it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for one associate judge; but the person residing in any other county of the circuit and who has the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The said judges shall hold not less than two terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter be prescribed to which jurors shall be summoned; and in those counties where only two such terms are held, two other and intermediate terms, to which jurors shall not be summoned; they may alter or fix the times for holding any or all terms, until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to the end that all business not requiring the interposition of the jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said intermediate terms. One judge in each of the above circuits, including the second, the third (and) sixth and seventh circuits, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges or any of them may hold special terms of their courts, whenever in their discretion the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. The additional associate judge for the third circuit elected in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the third circuit. The additional associate judge for the second circuit herein provided for shall be a resident of Cecil County, shall be appointed by the Governor after the expiration of six (6) months after the adoption of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot Counties, constituting the second circuit. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit, and the judge so elected shall be subject to the same constitutional provision, hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit. The additional judge for the sixth circuit herein pro-provided for and elected by the qualified voters of Frederick and Montgomery Counties at the 1938 election in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as 'are herein provided for the other associate judges in the sixth circuit and his successors shall be appointed and/or elected in accordance with the constitutional provisions relating to judges. The Chief Judge may be elected from either Frederick or Montgomery Counties, but when the Chief Judge is elected from Frederick County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said county and the two remaining associate judges shall be residents of Montgomery County and when the Chief Judge is elected from Montgomery County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said Montgomery County and the remaining two associate judges residents of Frederick County. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the sixth judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates, as the case may be, residing in the other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said sixth judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. The additional associate judge for the seventh circuit herein provided for shall be appointed by the Governor immediately after the adoption of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's Counties. No member of the General Assembly of 1939, otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as such associate judge by reason of his membership in the General Assembly. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit, and the judge so elected and his successors shall subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation, and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit. No two of the associate judges for the seventh circuit shall at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed reside in the same county, except in Prince George's County, in which county two of said associate judges for the said circuit shall reside at the time of their appointment or election and during the term for which they may have been appointed or elected unless the chief judge of said circuit shall already reside in said county, in which event only one of said associate judges shall reside in Prince George's County and Prince George's County shall at all times have two resident Judges and no more, such Judges to be either the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit and one associate Judge or two associate Judges of said Circuit. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the seventh judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates, as the case may be, residing in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said seventh judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. [Approved May 11, 1939.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 073 035.A 003.0 0 MD 1867 1940 *** [Act of 1939, CHAPTER 771. Ratified 1940 (Senate Bill 406)] 35A. Nothing in this Constitution shall exempt the salary or compensation of any judge or other public officer from the imposition by the General Assembly of a non-discriminatory tax upon income. [Approved April 26, 1931).] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 074 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1942 *** [Act of 1941, CHAPTER 494. Ratified 1942 (Senate Bill 229)] 21. For each of the said circuits, excepting the eighth, the second, the third, the sixth and the seventh there shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be selected or appointed as herein provided, and for the second circuit the third circuit, the sixth circuit, and the seventh circuit, there shall be a chief judge and three associate judges to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. And no two of said associate judges, for any of the said circuits, except the third, sixth and seventh circuits shall, at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in the same county. If two or more persons shall be candidates for associate judge in the same county in any of the circuits, except the third, sixth and seventh circuits, that one only in said county shall be declared elected who has the highest number of votes in the circuit. In case any two candidates for associate judge in any of the circuits, except the third, sixth and seventh circuits, residing in the same county shall have an equal number of votes greater than any other candidates for associate judge in the circuit, it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for one associate judge; but the person residing in any other county of the circuit and who has the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The said judges shall hold not less than two terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter be prescribed to which jurors shall be summoned ; and in those counties where only two such terms are held, two other and intermediate terms, 'to which jurors shall not be summoned; they may alter or fix the times for holding any or all terms, until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to the end that all business not requiring the interposition of the jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at such intermediate terms. One judge in each of the above circuits, including the second, the third, sixth and seventh circuits, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, and the said judges or any of them may hold special terms of their courts, whenever in their discretion the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. In the Third Circuit, two of said Associate Judges shall at all times be bona fide residents of Baltimore County and one of said Associate Judges or the Chief Judge be a bona fide resident of Harford County, and said Judges shall have been such residents six months prior to their appointment or election. The additional associate judge for the second circuit herein provided for shall be a resident of Cecil County, shall be appointed by the Governor after the expiration of six (6) months after the adoption of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties, constituting the second circuit. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit, and the judge so elected shall be subject to the same constitutional provision, hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation, and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the second circuit. The additional judge for the sixth circuit herein provided for and elected by the qualified voters of Frederick and Montgomery Counties at the 1938 election in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the sixth circuit and his successor shall be appointed and/or elected in accordance with the constitutional provisions relating to judges. The Chief Judge may be elected from either Frederick, or Montgomery Counties, but when the Chief Judge is elected from Frederick County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said county and the two remaining associate judges shall be residents of Montgomery County and when the Chief Judge is elected from Montgomery County one of the associate judges shall be a resident of said Montgomery County and the remaining two associate judges residents of Frederick County. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the third and sixth judicial circuits shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuits, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates as the case may be, residing in the other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said third and sixth judicial circuits, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. The additional associate judge for the seventh circuit herein provided for shall be appointed by the Governor immediately after the adoption of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's Counties. No member of the General Assembly of 1939, otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as such associate judge by reason of his membership in the General Assembly. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit, and the judge so elected and his successors shall, subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold office for the same term of years, receive the same compensation, and have the same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit. No two of the associate judges for the seventh circuit shall at the time of their election or appointment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed reside in the same county, except in Prince George's County, in which county two of said associate judges for the said circuit shall reside at the time of their appointment or election and during the term for which they may have been appointed or elected unless the chief judge of said circuit shall already reside in said county, in which event only one of said associate judges shall reside in Prince George's County and Prince George's County shall at all times have two resident Judges and no more, such Judges to be either the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit and one associate Judge or two associate Judges of said Circuit. In case any candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in the seventh judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates, as the case may be, residing in some other county, arid not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said seventh judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. [Approved April 23, 1941.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 075 045.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1942 *** [Act of 1941, CHAPTER 509. Ratified 1942 (Senate Bill 317)] 45. The General Assembly shall provide a simple and uniform system of charges in the offices of Clerks of Courts and Registers of Wills, in the Counties of this State and the City of Baltimore, and for the collection thereof; provided, the amount of compensation to any of the said officers in the various Counties and in the City of Baltimore shall be such as may be prescribed by law. [Approved April 28, 1941.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 076 040.B 003.0 0 MD 1867 1942 *** [Act of 1941, CHAPTER 607. Ratified 1942 (Senate Bill 521)] 40B. The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private property to be taken for public use without just compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation, except that where such property in the judgment of the State Roads Commission is needed by the State for highway purposes, the General Assembly may provide that such property may be taken immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or owners thereof by said State Roads Commission, or into Court, such amount as said State Roads Commission shall estimate to be of the fair value of said property,-provided such legislation also requires the payment of any further sum that may subsequently be awarded by a jury. [Approved April 28, 1941.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 077 015.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1942 *** [Act of 1941 CHAPTER 695. Ratified 1942 (House Bill 554)] 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not longer than ninety days; and each member thereof shall receive a compensation of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of fifteen dollars per diem for each day of unexcused absence from any session; and he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the presiding officer of each House shall receive an additional compensation of Two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars per annum. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, but no additional compensation other than mileage and other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the General Assembly for Special Sessions. [Approved May 2, 1941.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 078 001.0 014.0 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Act of 1943, CHAPTER 476. Ratified 1944. (House Bill 47)] 1. The General Assembly may propose Amendments to this Constitution; provided that each Amendment shall be embraced in a separate bill, embodying the Article or Section, as the same will stand when amended and passed by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered on the Journals with the proposed Amendment. The bill or bills proposing amendment or amendments shall be published 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 immediately preceding the next ensuing general election, at which the proposed amendment or amendments 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, severally, were cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall, by his 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 Constitution. When two or more amendments shall be submitted in manner aforesaid, to the voters of this State at the same election, they shall be so submitted as that each amendment shall be voted on separately. [Approved April 30, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 079 009.0 005.0 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Act of 1943, CHAPTER 490. Ratified 1944 (House Bill 167)] 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive such salary as shall be prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive any other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall have the power to appoint a Deputy and such other Assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy and Assistants shall receive the following annual salaries: State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand dollars; Assistant State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or such salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide, and such expenses for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the extent that the total of them exceeds the fees of his office, or as the General Assembly shall otherwise provide, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable for appearance fees to the State's Attorney. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said aforegoing section hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Maryland shall, at the next general election to be held in November, 1944, be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of the State, for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article 14 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, and at the said general election the vote on the said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words "For the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the Constitutional Amendment", as now provided by law, and immediately after said election due returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against the said proposed amendment, as directed by said Fourteenth Article of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in accordance with said Article Fourteen. [Approved May 4, 1943. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 080 000.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 80 and 701, 702, and 703 were part of the same legislation creating article 11-B: AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, by adding a new Article thereto, to follow immediately after Article XI-A, and to be known as Article XI-B, and to provide for the submission of said Amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, for adoption or rejection. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all members of each of the two Houses concurring), That the following Article to follow immediately after Article XI-A, and to be known as Article XI-B, be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, which Article, if adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, as herein provided, shall thereby, by such adoption, be and become a part of the Constitution of Maryland.] XI-B. BALTIMORE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to create a Baltimore Redevelopment Commission. Any public local law authorizing the creation of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall contain the following provisions : (a) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall come into being only when the City Council of Baltimore shall pass a resolution that there is need for the establishment of such a Commission in the City of Baltimore. When the City Council of Baltimore adopts such a resolution, it shall promptly notify the Mayor of Baltimore City of such adoption. Upon receiving such notice and approving said resolution, the Mayor shall appoint five persons (or such additional number of persons as the General Assembly may provide in said public local law), as Commissioners of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commision. The Commissioners shall serve for such terms' and shall receive such compensation the General Assembly may provide in said public local law. (b) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, when created, shall have power and authority to acquire land in slums and blighted areas in Baltimore City by purchase, lease or condemnation, and to reconvey any such land by sale or lease for redevelopment, in accordance with a redevelopment plan for Baltimore City, provided that such redevelopment plan has first been approved by the Commission on City Plan of Baltimore City; and provided further that no such slum or blighted area to be acquired shall be less than eight acres or more than eighty acres. The term "slum" shall mean any area where dwellings predominate, which by reason of depreciation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to the public safety, health or morals. The term "blighted area" shall mean an area in which a majority of the buildings have declined in productivity by reason of obsolescence, depreciation or other causes to an extent they no longer justify fundamental repairs and adequate maintenance. (c) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have authority to use the power of eminent domain to acquire any land needed for any redevelopment project; provided, however, that the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have first obtained options upon or shall have purchased at least 50 percentum of such land area required for any such redevelopment project. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission; provided, however, that no real property belonging to the State of Maryland or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may be acquired without the consent of said State or of said City, as the case may be. No property taken by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, by exercise of the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a Jury. (d) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to petition the United States of America for loans of money and to receive from the United States of America such loans to be used in the acquisition of land in slums and blighted areas for redevelopment and for use in the preparation of any redevelopment plan. (e) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to reconvey any land acquired by it, either by purchase, lease or condemnation to any private corporations, companies, partnerships, or persons, for redevelopment and rebuilding, at a price consistent with the new uses which the Commission on City Plan 'shall prescribe for such land, even though such price may be below the original cost of acquisition. The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to include in the terms of sale or leases of land to private corporations, companies, partnerships, or persons, provisions obligating the purchasers or lessees of such land to begin the building of improvements within a reasonable period of time; and to include in such contracts, appropriate covenants and restrictions to maintain standards- of population density, property maintenance, character of the use of land, and architectural standards established in the redevelopment plan and approved by the Commission on City Plan of Baltimore City. (f) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have no power to pledge the credit of, or in any way bind the Mayor City Council of Baltimore, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable in any way or manner whatsoever, for any of the obligations, contracts, or undertakings of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission. SEC. 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, any and all additional powers necessary and proper to carry into effect the above mentioned powers and purposes of said Commission, provided such additional powers are not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article XI-B, and with any other provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may add such other and further limitations upon the powers and the exercise of such powers of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission as it may deem proper and expedient. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing Article hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, shall, at the Election to be held in November, 1944, be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of the State of Maryland, for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article XIV of the Constitution of Maryland, and at the said General Election, the vote on the said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words 'For Constitutional Amendment", and "Against Constitutional Amendment", as now provided by law, and immediately after said Election, due return shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as directed by Article XIV of the Constitution, and said proceedings had in accordance with said Article XIV. [Approved May 6, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 701 001.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 80 and 701, 702, and 703 were part of the same legislation creating article 11-B:] XI-B. BALTIMORE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to create a Baltimore Redevelopment Commission. Any public local law authorizing the creation of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall contain the following provisions : (a) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall come into being only when the City Council of Baltimore shall pass a resolution that there is need for the establishment of such a Commission in the City of Baltimore. When the City Council of Baltimore adopts such a resolution, it shall promptly notify the Mayor of Baltimore City of such adoption. Upon receiving such notice and approving said resolution, the Mayor shall appoint five persons (or such additional number of persons as the General Assembly may provide in said public local law), as Commissioners of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commision. The Commissioners shall serve for such terms' and shall receive such compensation the General Assembly may provide in said public local law. (b) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, when created, shall have power and authority to acquire land in slums and blighted areas in Baltimore City by purchase, lease or condemnation, and to reconvey any such land by sale or lease for redevelopment, in accordance with a redevelopment plan for Baltimore City, provided that such redevelopment plan has first been approved by the Commission on City Plan of Baltimore City; and provided further that no such slum or blighted area to be acquired shall be less than eight acres or more than eighty acres. The term "slum" shall mean any area where dwellings predominate, which by reason of depreciation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to the public safety, health or morals. The term "blighted area" shall mean an area in which a majority of the buildings have declined in productivity by reason of obsolescence, depreciation or other causes to an extent they no longer justify fundamental repairs and adequate maintenance. (c) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have authority to use the power of eminent domain to acquire any land needed for any redevelopment project; provided, however, that the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have first obtained options upon or shall have purchased at least 50 percentum of such land area required for any such redevelopment project. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission; provided, however, that no real property belonging to the State of Maryland or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may be acquired without the consent of said State or of said City, as the case may be. No property taken by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, by exercise of the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a Jury. (d) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to petition the United States of America for loans of money and to receive from the United States of America such loans to be used in the acquisition of land in slums and blighted areas for redevelopment and for use in the preparation of any redevelopment plan. (e) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to reconvey any land acquired by it, either by purchase, lease or condemnation to any private corporations, companies, partnerships, or persons, for redevelopment and rebuilding, at a price consistent with the new uses which the Commission on City Plan 'shall prescribe for such land, even though such price may be below the original cost of acquisition. The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have power to include in the terms of sale or leases of land to private corporations, companies, partnerships, or persons, provisions obligating the purchasers or lessees of such land to begin the building of improvements within a reasonable period of time; and to include in such contracts, appropriate covenants and restrictions to maintain standards- of population density, property maintenance, character of the use of land, and architectural standards established in the redevelopment plan and approved by the Commission on City Plan of Baltimore City. (f) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have no power to pledge the credit of, or in any way bind the Mayor City Council of Baltimore, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable in any way or manner whatsoever, for any of the obligations, contracts, or undertakings of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission. [Approved May 6, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 702 002.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 80 and 701, 702, and 703 were part of the same legislation creating article 11-B:] SEC. 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, any and all additional powers necessary and proper to carry into effect the above mentioned powers and purposes of said Commission, provided such additional powers are not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article XI-B, and with any other provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may add such other and further limitations upon the powers and the exercise of such powers of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission as it may deem proper and expedient. [Approved May 6, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 703 003.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 80 and 701, 702, and 703 were part of the same legislation creating article 11-B:] SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing Article hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, shall, at the Election to be held in November, 1944, be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of the State of Maryland, for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article XIV of the Constitution of Maryland, and at the said General Election, the vote on the said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words 'For Constitutional Amendment", and "Against Constitutional Amendment", as now provided by law, and immediately after said Election, due return shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as directed by Article XIV of the Constitution, and said proceedings had in accordance with said Article XIV. [Approved May 6, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 081 005.0 004.0 1 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 81-84 amend sections of Art. 4 They were passed together in Act of 1943, CHAPTER 772. Ratified 1944. (Senate Bill 213)] Sec. 5. Upon every occurrence or recurrence of a vacancy through death, resignation, removal, disqualification by reason of age or otherwise, or expiration of the term of fifteen years of any judge, or creation of the office of any judge, or in any other way, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the election and qualification of his successor. His successor shall be elected at the first biennial general election for Representatives in Congress after the expiration of the term of fifteen years (if the vacancy occurred in that way) or the first such general election after one year after the occurrence of the vacancy in any other way than through expiration of such term. Except in case of reappointment of a judge upon expiration of his term of fifteen years, no person shall be appointed who will become disqualified by reason of age and thereby unable to continue to hold office until the prescribed time when his successor would have been elected. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 082 014.0 004.0 1 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 81-84 amend sections of Art. 4 They were passed together in Act of 1943, CHAPTER 772. Ratified 1944. (Senate Bill 213)] Sec. 14. Until January 1, 1945, the Court of Appeals shall be composed of the Judges in office on November 7, 1944. From and after January 1, 1945, the Court of Appeals shall be composed of five Judges, two from the City of Baltimore; one from the First Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset Counties; one from the Second Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of Harford, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's Counties; and one from the Third Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, Frederick, Washington, Allegany and Garrett Counties; and during the continuance in office of Judges who were in office before January 1, 1945, not exceeding three additional Judges. The City of Baltimore shall, for the purposes of this section, be designated as the Fourth Appellate Judicial Circuit. The additional Judge from the Fourth Appellate Judicial Circuit shall be appointed by the Governor to serve until the election and qualification of his successor, as provided by Section 5 of this Article. Except as to such .additional Judge, the Judges of said Court, in the first instance, shall be appointed by the Governor from their respective appellate Judicial Circuits but such appointments shall be made from among the elected Judges composing the Court of Appeals as of December 31, 1944. If, on December 31, 1944, there are no elected members of the Court of Appeals from any Appellate Judicial Circuit, the Governor shall designate the member of the Court of Appeals from that Appellate Judicial Circuit from among the appointed members of the Court of Appeals from that Appellate Judicial Circuit. If any Judge so appointed shall be a member of the Court of Appeals as of December 31, 1944, by virtue of having been elected to that office, his appointment shall be for the balance of the term for which he had theretofore been elected. The Judges so appointed from the First, Second and Third Appellate Judicial Circuits shall cease to be Chief Judges of their respective Circuits. Any elected Judges from Circuits, except the Eighth Circuit, in office on December 31, 1944, other than the three designated by the Governor as Judges of the Court of Appeals, shall be additional Judges of the Court of Appeals and shall continue to be Chief Judges of their respective Circuits and shall hold office for the residue of the terms for which they were elected. No successor to any such additional Judge shall be appointed or elected as Judge of the Court of Appeals or (except as .provided in Section 21 of this Article) as Judge of his Circuit, but any such additional Judge shall be eligible to appointment as the member of the Court of Appeals from his respective Appellate Judicial Circuit. Any vacancy in any Appellate Judicial Circuit shall be filled by designation by the Governor of one of the additional Judges from such Appellate Judicial Circuit, if any, to hold office for the residue of the term for which he was originally elected. Upon his appointment or designation as a member of the Court of Appeals from his Appellate Judicial Circuit, such additional Judge shall cease to be the Chief Judge of his Circuit. The Judges of the Court of Appeals shall be elected by the qualified voters of their respective Appellate Judicial Circuits, their terms to begin on the date of their qualification. One of the judges of the Court of Appeals shall be designated by the Governor as the Chief Judge. The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals shall be co-extensive with the limits of the State and such as now is or may hereafter be prescribed by law. It shall hold its sessions in the City of Annapolis on the second Monday in January in the year 1945, and thereafter at such time or times as it shall from time to time by rule prescribe. Its session or sessions shall continue not less than ten months in each year, if the business before it shall so require, and it shall be competent for the judges temporarily to transfer their sittings elsewhere upon sufficient cause. The salary of each judge of the Court of Appeals shall be that now or hereafter prescribed by the General Assembly and shall not be diminished during his continuance in office. When the number of judges shall have become reduced to five, three of the judges shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of a majority of a quorum shall be sufficient for the decision of any cause. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 083 018.A 004.0 1 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 81-84 amend sections of Art. 4 They were passed together in Act of 1943, CHAPTER 772. Ratified 1944. (Senate Bill 213)] Sec. 18A. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be the administrative head of the judicial system of the State. He shall from time to time require, from each of the judges of the Circuit Courts for the several counties and of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, reports as to the judicial work and business of each of the judges and their respective courts. He may, in case of a vacancy or of illness, disqualification or other absence of one or more judges of the Court of Appeals, designate any judge of any of the Circuit Courts for the counties or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City to sit in any case or for a specified period as a judge of the Court of Appeals in lieu of a judge of that court, and may designate, to sit as a judge of the Circuit Court for any county or of any Court or Courts of Baltimore City, either alone or with one or more other judges, in any case or for a specified period, any judge of the Court of Appeals or of any other Circuit Court or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, In the absence of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals the provisions of this Section shall be applicable to the senior judge present. The powers of the Chief Judge under the aforegoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such rules and regulations, if any, as the Court of Appeals may make. The Court of Appeals from time to time shall make rules and regulations to regulate and revise the practice and procedure in that Court and in the other courts of this State, which shall have the force of law until rescinded, changed or modified by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. The power of the courts other than the Court of Appeals to make rules of practice and procedure shall be subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 084 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1944 *** [Amendments 81-84 amend sections of Art. 4 They were passed together in Act of 1943, CHAPTER 772. Ratified 1944. (Senate Bill 213)] Sec. 21. From and after January 1, 1945, there shall be at least three judges for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh circuits, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. In any of said circuits in which there shall be more than three judges (including the additional judge of the Court of Appeals), no successor to the additional judge of the Court of Appeals shall be appointed or elected as judge of said circuit. In any of said circuits in which there shall be only three judges (including an additional judge of the Court of Appeals), a successor to the additional judge of the Court of Appeals shall be appointed and elected as judge of said circuit. The aforesaid number of judges for any of the circuits shall be subject to increase or decrease by law as provided in Section 5 of this Article. The senior judge in length of service shall be the chief judge of the circuit (unless there is an additional judge of the Court of Appeals) ; the other judge or judges shall be associate judges. No two of said judges of the Circuit Court shall at the time of their election or appointment, or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in any one county other than Baltimore, Montgomery, Prince George's or Allegany County, and not more than two in any county except (if there is an additional judge of the Court of Appeals) Baltimore County. In case any candidate or candidates for judge at any election shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of the circuit, then and in that event there shall be declared elected only that candidate or those candidates residing in said county, in the order of the votes received, whose election would provide the permitted number of judges from said county, and also the candidate or candidates residing in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of judges duly qualified as to residence shall not be elected at any election, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. The said judges shall hold such terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times, as are now prescribed or may hereafter be prescribed by rules or regulations by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. One judge in each of said seven circuits shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges, or any of them, may hold special terms of their Courts, when in their discretion, the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. All provisions of the Constitution of Maryland and all acts of the General Assembly relating to the Court of Appeals or any other courts, and all rules heretofore adopted by the Court of Appeals, not inconsistent with the provisions of the sections amended or added by this amendment, shall remain in full force and effect unless and until amended or repealed by proper authority. All salaries now prescribed by law for associate judges of the Circuit Courts shall continue to apply to all judges (including chief judges) of the Circuit Courts who are not judges of the Court of Appeals. No member of the General Assembly at which this amendment was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as judge of the Court of Appeals or any other court by reason of his membership in such General Assembly. All appeals and other matters pending in the Court of Appeals on January 1, 1945, shall be proceeded with and determined by the Court as hereby constituted. In the event and to the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of any section amended or added by this amendment and any of the other provisions of this Constitution or the provisions of any existing law, the provisions of the sections amended or added shall prevail, and such other provisions shall be repealed or abrogated to the extent of such inconsistency, except Section 35A of Article III of this Constitution; provided, however, that in the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the sections thus amended or added and any of the other provisions of this Constitution as amended by any other amendments which may be adopted at the same time as this amendment, i. e., at the election held in November, 1944, the changes made by this amendment and all such other amendments to this Constitution shall all be given effect [Approved May 4,1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 085 013.A 004.0 1 MD 1867 1944 *** [Act of 1943, CHAPTER 796. Ratified 1944.(Senate Bill 364)] Sec. 13A. The General Assembly shall provide by General Law for the assignment by the Court of Appeals of any of the Chief Judges and any of the Associate Judges of the several Judicial Circuits of this State, including any Judge of the Court of Appeals from Baltimore City, and any of the Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, to sit in any other or different Judicial Circuits for designated and limited periods, for the purpose of relieving accumulation of business or because of the indisposition or disqualification of any judge. And any judge so assigned by the Court of Appeals shall have all the power and authority pertaining to the judge of the court to which he is assigned. [Approved April 30, 1943.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 086 012.0 005.0 0 MD 1867 1946 *** [Act of 1945, CHAPTER 529. Ratified 1946 (Senate Bill 327)] 12. The State's Attorney in each county, and the City of Baltimore, shall have authority to collect, and give receipt, in the name of the State, for such sums of money as may be collected by him, and forthwith make return of and pay over the same to the proper accounting officer. And the State's Attorney of each county, and the City of Baltimore, before he shall enter on the discharge of his duties, and from time to time thereafter, shall give such corporate surety bond as may hereafter be prescribed by Act of the General Assembly. [Approved April 5, 1945.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 087 001.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1946 *** [Act of 1945, CHAPTER 659. Ratified 1946 (House Bill 351)] Sec 1. (c) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall have authority to use the power of eminent domain to acquire any land needed for any redevelopment project within the corporate limits of the City of Baltimore. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission; provided, however, that no real property belonging to the State of Maryland or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or of the Baltimore Housing Authority may be acquired without the consent of said State or of said City or of said Baltimore Housing Authority, as the case may be. No property taken by the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, by exercise of the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a Jury. [Approved April 23, 1945.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 088 005.0 004.0 1 MD 1867 1946 *** [Act of 1945, CHAPTER 703. Ratified 1946 (Senate Bill 37)] PART I-GENERAL PROVISIONS. SEC. 5. Upon every occurrence or recurrence of a vacancy through death, resignation, removal, disqualification by reason of age or otherwise, or expiration of the term of fifteen years of any judge, or creation of the office of any judge, or in any other way, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the election and qualification of his successor; except that when a vacancy shall exist in the office of Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the Governor may designate an Associate Judge of said Supreme Bench as Chief Judge of said Supreme Bench, and such appointee as Chief Judge shall hold such office for the residue of the term for which he was last elected an Associate Judge of said Supreme Bench. His successor shall be elected at the first biennial general election for Representatives in Congress after the expiration of the term of fifteen years (if the vacancy occurred in that way) or the first such general election after one year after the occurrence of the vacancy in any other way than through expiration of such term. Except in case of reappointment of a judge upon expiration of his term of fifteen years, no person shall be appointed who will become disqualified by reason of age and thereby unable to continue to hold office until the prescribed time when his successor would have been elected. [Approved April 23, 1945.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 089 044.0 004.0 7 MD 1867 1946 *** [Act of 1945, CHAPTER 786. Ratified 1946 (Senate Bill 246)] 44. There shall be elected in each county in the year 1946 and in every fourth year thereafter, one person, resident in said county, above the age of twenty-five years and at least five years preceding his election, a citizen of the State, to the office of Sheriff. He shall hold office for four years, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified ; shall give such bond, exercise such powers and perform such duties as now are or may hereafter be fixed by law. In the City of Baltimore at the general election to be held in the year 1946 and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected in said City of Baltimore, one person who shall be a resident of said city, above the age of twenty-five years, and who shall have been at least five years preceding his election a citizen of this state, to the office of Sheriff. He shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified; shall be eligible for re-election; shall give such bond, exercise such powers and perform such duties as now are or may hereafter be fixed by law. In case of vacancy by death, resignation, refusal to serve, or neglect to qualify, or give bond, or by disqualification or removal from the County or City, the Governor shall appoint a person to be Sheriff for the remainder of the official term. The Sheriff in each county and in Baltimore City shall receive such salary or compensation and such expenses necessary to the conduct of his office as may be fixed by law; provided, that the salary of the Sheriff in Baltimore City shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per year. All fees collected by the Sheriff shall be accounted for and paid to the Treasury of the several counties and of Baltimore City, respectively. [Approved April 27,1945.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 090 001.0 002.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 109. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 143)] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses concurring), That the following be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Executive Department," the same, if adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as herein provided, to become Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland. Section 1. The executive power of the State shall be vested in a Governor, whose term of office shall commence on the second Wednesday of January next ensuing his election, and continue for four years, and until his successor shall have qualified; and a person who has served two consecutive popular elective terms of office as Governor shall be ineligible to succeed himself as Governor for the term immediately following the second of said two consecutive popular elective terms. [Approved March 15,1947.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 091 001.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 162. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 151)] CITY OF BALTIMORE-LAND DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT. Section 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize and empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) To acquire, within the boundary lines of Baltimore City, land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for development or redevelopment, including, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or rehabilitation thereof; and (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped, altered or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 092 002.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 162. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 151)] Section 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 093 003.0 011.B 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 162. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 151)] Section 3. The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission may continue in existence and shall have and may continue to exercise any of the power and authority which is now or hereafter may be vested in the Commission by law, until such time as such power and authority of the Commission is validly repealed by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland or by an ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and a new agency of the .Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is created to carry out the objects and purposes for which the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission was originally created; and nothing contained in this Article shall be taken or construed to the contrary. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 094 014.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 497. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 64)] 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Wednesday of January, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and on the first Wednesday in February, nineteen hundred and fifty, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the Governor. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 095 015.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 497. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 64)] 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not longer than ninety days in odd years and thirty days in even years; and on and after January 1, 1949, each member thereof shall receive a compensation of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00)) per annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per diem for each day of unexcused absence from any session; and he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding Twenty Cents per mile; and the presiding officers of each House shall receive an additional compensation of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250) per annum. In any of said thirty-day sessions in even years, the General Assembly shall consider no bills other than (1) Bills having to do with budgetary, revenue and financial matters of the State Government, (2) legislation dealing with an acute emergency, and (3) legislation in the general public welfare. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, but an additional compensation other than mileage and other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the General Assembly for special session. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 096 052.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947 CHAPTER 497. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 64)] 52. (1) The General Assembly shall not appropriate any money out of the Treasury except in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) Every appropriation bill shall be either a Budget Bill, or a Supplementary Appropriation Bill, as hereinafter provided. (3) Within twenty days after the convening of the General Assembly, in odd-numbered years (except in the case of a newly elected Governor, and then within thirty days after his inauguration), unless such time shall be extended by the General Assembly, and on the first Wednesday in February in even-numbered years, the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a Budget for the next ensuing fiscal year. Each Budget shall contain a complete plan of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for said fiscal year and shall show the estimated surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of the preceding fiscal year. Accompanying each Budget shall be a statement showing: (a) the revenues and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year;(b) the current assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus or deficit of the State; (c) the debts and funds of the State; (d) an estimate of the State's financial condition as of the beginning and end of the preceding fiscal year; (e) any explanation the Governor may desire to make as to the important features of the Budget and any suggestions as to methods for reduction or increase of the State's revenue. (4) Each Budget shall embrace an itemized estimate of the appropriations, as follows: (a) for the General Assembly as certified to the Governor in the manner hereinafter provided; (b) for the Executive Department; (c) for the Judiciary Department, as provided by law, certified by the Comptroller; (d) to pay and discharge the principal and interest of the debt of the State in conformity with Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in pursuance thereof; (e) for the salaries payable by the State under the Constitution and laws of the State; (f) for the establishment and maintenance throughout the State of a thorough and efficient system of public schools in conformity with Article 8 of the Constitution and with the laws of the State; (g) for such other purposes as are set forth in the Constitution or laws of the State. (5) The Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of each House the Budget and a bill for all the proposed appropriations of the Budget classified and in such detail as he shall determine or as may be prescribed by law; and the presiding officer of each House shall promptly cause said bill to be introduced therein, and such bill shall be known as the ''Budget Bill". The Governor may, with the consent of the General Assembly, before final action thereon by the General Assembly, amend or supplement said Budget to correct an oversight, provide funds contingent on passage of pending legislation or, in case of an emergency, by delivering such an amendment or supplement to the presiding officers of both Houses; and such amendment or supplement shall thereby become a part of said Budget Bill as an addition to the items of said bill or as a modification of or a substitute for any item of said bill such amendment or supplement may affect. (6) The General Assembly shall not amend the Budget Bill so as to affect either the obligations of the State under Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, or the provisions made by the laws of the State for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools or the payment of any salaries required to be paid by the State of Maryland by the Constitution thereof; and the General Assembly may amend the bill by increasing or diminishing the items therein relating to the General Assembly, and by increasing the items therein relating to the judiciary, but except as hereinbefore specified, may not alter the said bill except to strike out or reduce items therein, provided, however, that the salary or compensation of any public officer shall not be decreased during his term of office; and such bill, when and as passed by both Houses, shall be a law immediately without further action by the Governor. (7) The Governor and such representatives of the executive departments, boards, officers and commissions of the State expending or applying for State's moneys, as have been designated by the Governor for this purpose, shall have the right, and when requested by either House of the General Assembly, it shall be their duty to appear and be heard with respect to any Budget Bill during the consideration thereof, and to answer inquiries relative thereto. (8) Supplementary Appropriation Bill. Neither House shall consider other appropriations until the Budget Bill has been finally acted upon by both Houses, and no such other appropriation shall be valid except in accordance with the provisions following: (a) Every such appropriation shall be embodied in a separate bill limited to some single .work, object or purpose therein stated and called herein a Supplementary Appropriation Bill; (b) Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue necessary to pay the appropriation thereby made a tax, direct or indirect, to be levied and collected as shall be directed in said bill; (c) No Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall become a law unless it be passed in each House by a vote of a majority of the whole number of the members elected, and the yeas and nays recorded on its final passage; (d) Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be presented to the Governor of the State as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution and thereafter all the provisions of said section shall apply. (9) Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing the General Assembly from passing at any time, in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of Article 3 of the Constitution and subject to the Governor's power of approval as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution, an appropriation bill to provide for the payment of any obligation of the State within the protection of Section 10 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States. (10) If the Budget Bill shall not have been finally acted upon by the Legislature three days before the expiration of its regular session, the Governor may, and it shall be his duty to issue a proclamation extending the session for some further period as may, in his judgment, be necessary for the passage of such bill; but no other matter than such bill shall be considered during such extended session except a provision for the cost thereof. (11) The Governor for the purpose of making up his Budget shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to require from the proper State officials, including herein all executive departments, all executive and administrative offices, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies, expending or supervising the expenditure of, and all institutions applying for State moneys and appropriations, such itemized estimates and other information, in such form and at such times as he shall direct. The estimates for the Legislative Department, certified by the presiding officer of each House, of the Judiciary, as provided by law, certified by the Comptroller, and for the public schools, as provided by law, shall be transmitted to the Governor, in such form and at such times as he shall direct, and shall be included in the Budget without revision. (12) The Governor may provide for public hearings on all estimates and may require the attendance at such hearings of representatives of all agencies, and for all institutions applying for State moneys. After such public hearings he may, in his discretion, revise all estimates except those for the legislative and judiciary departments, and for the public schools, as provided by law. (13) The General Assembly may, from time to time, enact such laws not inconsistent with this section, as may be necessary and proper to carry out its provisions. (14) In the event of any inconsistency between- any of the provisions of this Section and any of the other provisions of the Constitution, the provisions of this Section shall prevail. But nothing herein shall in any manner affect the provisions of Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution or of any laws heretofore or hereafter passed in pursuance thereof, or be construed as preventing the Governor from calling extraordinary sessions of the General Assembly, as provided by Section 16 of Article 2, or as preventing the General Assembly at such extraordinary sessions from considering any emergency appropriation or appropriations. (15) If any item of any appropriation bill passed under the provisions of this Section shall be held invalid upon any ground, such invalidity shall not affect the legality of the bill or of any other item of such bill or bills. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 097 000.0 011.C 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Amendments 97-99 create article 11-C, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1947, CHAPTER 505. Ratified 1948 (Senate, Bill 132)] [AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, by adding a new article thereto, to follow immediately after Article XIB, and to be known as Article XIC, relating to the acquisition and disposal of property by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for certain purposes, and to provide for the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for adoption or rejection. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses concurring), That the following Article to follow immediately after Article XIB, and to be known as Article XIC, be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, which Article, if adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, as herein provided, shall thereby, by such adoption, be and become a part of the Constitution of Maryland :] ARTICLE XIC. OFF-STREET PARKING Sec. 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) Within the City of Baltimore to acquire land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for storing, parking and servicing self-propelled vehicles, provided, that no petroleum products shall be sold or offered for sale at any entrance to or exit from, any land so acquired or at any entrance to, or exit from, any structure erected thereon, when any entrance to, or exit from, any such land or structure faces on a street or highway which is more than 25 feet wide from curb to curb; and (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. Sec. 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. [Approved April 16, 1947.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 098 001.0 011.C 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Amendments 97-99 create article 11-C, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1947, CHAPTER 505. Ratified 1948 (Senate, Bill 132)] ARTICLE XIC. OFF-STREET PARKING Sec. 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) Within the City of Baltimore to acquire land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for storing, parking and servicing self-propelled vehicles, provided, that no petroleum products shall be sold or offered for sale at any entrance to or exit from, any land so acquired or at any entrance to, or exit from, any structure erected thereon, when any entrance to, or exit from, any such land or structure faces on a street or highway which is more than 25 feet wide from curb to curb; and (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 099 002.0 011.C 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Amendments 97-99 create article 11-C, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1947, CHAPTER 505. Ratified 1948 (Senate, Bill 132)] Sec. 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. [Approved April 16, 1947.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 100 001.0 013.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947, CHAPTER 618. Ratified 1948. (Senate Bill 210)] Section 1. The General Assembly may provide, by Law, for organizing new Counties, locating and removing county seats, and changing county lines; but no new county shall be organized without the consent of the majority of the legal voters residing within the limits proposed to be formed into said new county; and whenever a new county shall be proposed to be formed out of portions of two or more counties, the consent of a majority of the legal voters of such part of each of said counties, respectively, shall be required; nor shall the lines of any county nor of Baltimore City be changed without the consent of a majority of the legal voters residing within the district, which under said proposed change, would form a part of a county or of Baltimore City different from that to which it belonged prior to said change; and no new county shall contain less than four hundred square miles, nor less than ten thousand white inhabitants; nor shall any change be made in the limits of any county, whereby the population of said county would be reduced to less than ten thousand white inhabitants, or its territory reduced to less than four hundred square miles. [Approved April 25, 1947.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 101 038.0 9002.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947, CHAPTER 623. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 242)] AN ACT to propose an amendment to Article 38 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland, relating to the consent of the General Assembly to certain gifts, grants, deeds, devises and bequests for religious purposes and to provide for the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for adoption or rejection. Article 38. That every gift, sale or devise of land to any Minister, Public Teacher or Preacher of the Gospel, as such, or to any Religious Sect, Order or Denomination or to, or for the support, use or benefit of, or in trust for, any Minister, Public Teacher, or Preacher of the Gospel as such, or any Religious Sect, Order or Denomination; and every gift or sale of goods, or chattels to go in succession, or to take place after the death of the Seller or Donor, to or for such support, use or benefit; and also every devise of goods or chattels to or for the support, use or benefit of any Minister, Public Teacher or Preacher of the Gospel, as such, or any Religious Sect, Order or Denomination, without the prior or subsequent sanction of the Legislature, shall be void; except always, any sale, gift, lease or devise of any quantity of land, not exceeding five acres, for a church, meeting-house, or other house of worship, or parsonage, or for a burying ground, which shall be improved, enjoyed or used only for such purpose; or such sale, gift, lease or devise shall be void. Provided, however, that except in so far as the General Assembly shall hereafter by law otherwise enact, the consent of the Legislature shall not be required to any gift, grant, deed, or conveyance executed after the 2nd day of November, 1948, or to any devise or bequest contained in the will of any person dying after said 2nd day of November, 1948, for any of the purposes hereinabove in this Article mentioned. [Approved April 25, 1947.] [The 1867 constitution starts out with a Declaration of Rights. The declaration includes "articles" not sections, but we have coded them as sections in the 9002 article. So this is an amendment to section 38 (not article 38) of the Declaration of Rights.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 102 011.0 015.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1947, CHAPTER 721. Ratified 1948. (House Bill 309)] 11. No person who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Maryland through force or violence shall be eligible to hold any office, be it elective or appointive, or any other position of profit or trust in the Government of or in the administration of the business of this State or of any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State. [Approved April 25, 1947.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 103 005.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1948 *** [Act of 1949, CHAPTER 226. Ratified 1948. (Senate Bill 225)] SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 of this Article, the membership of the House of Delegates shall consist of one hundred and twenty-three (123) Delegates, apportioned as follows: Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Kent, Queen Anne's, and St. Mary's Counties, two Delegates each; Cecil, Garrett, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester Counties, three Delegates each; Carroll, Dorchester, Harford, and Wicomico Counties, four Delegates each; Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's, and Washington Counties, and each of the six legislative districts of Baltimore City, six Delegates each. [Approved April 22, 1949.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 104 005.0 015.0 0 MD 1867 1950 *** [Act of 1949, CHAPTER 407. Ratified 1950. (House Bill 603)] SEC. 5. In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact, except that the Court may pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. [Approved April 22, 1949.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 105 017.0 002.0 0 MD 1867 1950 *** [Act of 1949, CHAPTER 714. ratified 1950. (House Bill 325)] 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and encroachments of the Legislative Department upon the coordinate Executive and Judicial Departments, every Bill which shall have passed the House of Delegates, and the Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor of the State; if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it with his objections to the House in which it originated, which House shall enter the objections at large on its Journal and proceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths of the members elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall be sent with the objections to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the members elected to that House it shall become a law; but in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the Governor within six days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he signed it, unless the General Assembly shall, by adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. Any bill which is vetoed by the Governor following the adjournment of the General Assembly, or any bill which fails to become a law by reason of not having been signed by the Governor following the adjournment of the General Assembly, shall be returned to the House in which it originated, immediately after said House shall have organized at the next regular or special session of the General Assembly. Said bill may then be reconsidered according to the procedure specified hereinabove. If the bill is passed over the veto of the Governor, it shall take effect on June 1 following, unless the bill is an emergency measure to take effect when passed. The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of any Bills making appropriations of money embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the Bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriations disapproved shall be void unless repassed according to the rules or limitations prescribed for the passage of other Bills over the Executive veto. [Approved May 6, 1949.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 106 038.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1950 *** [Act of 1950, CHAPTER 14. Ratified 1950. (Senate Bill 18)] 38. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction OR AGREEMENT APPROVED BY DECREE OF SAID COURT for the support of a wife or dependent children, or for alimony, shall not constitute a debt within the meaning of this section. [Approved March 28, 1950.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 107 003.0 006.0 0 MD 1867 1950 *** [Act of 1950, CHAPTER 56. Ratified 1950. (Senate Bill 150)] SEC. 3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of the State, and, until otherwise prescribed by law, deposit them, as soon as received, to the credit of the State, in such bank or banks as he may, from time to time, with the approval of the Governor, select (the said bank or banks giving security, satisfactory to the Governor, for the safe-keeping and forthcoming, when required of said deposits), and he or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature shall disburse the same for the purposes of the State according to law, upon warrants drawn by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and on checks countersigned by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and not otherwise. The Treasurer or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature shall take receipts for all moneys paid from the Treasury Department; and receipt for moneys received by him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed, by the Comptroller, or such deputy as may be authorized to do so by law, without which warrants, so signed, no acknowledgment of money received into the Treasury shall be valid; and upon warrants issued by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer shall make arrangements for the payment of the interest of the public debt, and for the purchase thereof, on account of the sinking .fund. Every bond, certificate, or other evidence of the debt of the State shall be signed by the Treasurer or Chief Deputy Treasurer, and countersigned by the Comptroller or Chief Deputy Comptroller; and no new certificate or other evidence intended to replace another shall be issued until the old one shall be delivered to the Treasurer, and authority executed in due form for the transfer of the same tiled in his office, and the transfer-accordingly made on the books thereof, and the certificate or other evidence canceled; but the Legislature may make provisions for the loss of certificates, or other evidences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law, the manner in which the Treasurer shall receive and keep the moneys of the State. [Approved March 28, 1950.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 108 000.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1952 *** [Amendments 108-110 create article 11_D, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1951, CHAPTER 199. Ratified 1952. (House Bill 402)] [AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, by adding a new Article thereto, to follow immediately after Article XIC, and to be known as Article XID, relating to the Acquisition and Disposal of Property by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for certain purposes, and to provide for the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for adoption or rejection. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses concurring), That the following Article to follow immediately after Article XIC, and to be known as Article XID, be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland, which Article, if adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, as herein provided, shall thereby, by such adoption, be and become a part of the Constitution of Maryland:] ARTICLE XID PORT DEVELOPMENT 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) To acquire land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in, adjoining or in the vicinity of the Patapsco River or its tributaries, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for or in connection with extending, developing or improving the harbor or port of Baltimore and its facilities and the highways and approaches thereto; and (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it is undeveloped or has been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. [Approved March 24, 1951.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 109 001.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1952 *** [Amendments 108-110 create article 11_D, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1951, CHAPTER 199. Ratified 1952. (House Bill 402)] ARTICLE XID PORT DEVELOPMENT 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) To acquire land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in, adjoining or in the vicinity of the Patapsco River or its tributaries, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for or in connection with extending, developing or improving the harbor or port of Baltimore and its facilities and the highways and approaches thereto; and (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it is undeveloped or has been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 110 002.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1952 *** [Amendments 108-110 create article 11_D, they were part of the same legislation: Act of 1951, CHAPTER 199. Ratified 1952. (House Bill 402)] 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. [Approved March 24, 1951.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 111 052.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1952 *** [Act of 1952, CHAPTER 20. Ratified 1952. (Senate Bill 21) AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 52 (4), (5) of Article 3 of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Legislative Department," relating to the State Budget and to provide for the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or rejection.] 52. (4). Each Budget shall embrace an [itemized] estimate of [the] all appropriations in such form and detail as the Governor shall determine or as may be prescribed by law, as follows: (a) for the General Assembly as certified to the Governor in the manner hereinafter provided; (b) for the Executive Department; (c) for the Judiciary Department, as provided by law, certified by the Comptroller; (d) to pay and discharge the principal and interest of the debt of the State in conformity with Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in pursuance thereof; (e) for the salaries payable by the State and under the Constitution and laws of the State; (f) for the establishment and maintenance throughout the State of a thorough and efficient system of public schools in conformity with Article 8 of the Constitution and with the laws of the State; (g) for such other purposes as are set forth in the Constitution or laws of the State. (5). The Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of each House the Budget and a bill for all the proposed appropriations of the Budget classified and in such form and detail as he shall determine or as may be prescribed by law; and the presiding officer of each House shall promptly cause said bill to be introduced therein, and such bill shall be known as the "Budget Bill." The Governor may, with the consent of the General Assembly, before final action thereon by the General Assembly, amend or supplement said Budget to correct an oversight, provide funds contingent on passage of pending legislation or, in case of an emergency, by delivering such an amendment or supplement to the presiding officers of both Houses; and such amendment or supplement shall thereby become a part of said Budget Bill as an addition to the items of said bill or as a modification of or a substitute for any item of said bill such amendment or supplement may affect. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 112 044.0 004.0 7 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 55. Ratified 1954. (House Bill 10)] 44. There shall be elected in each county and in Baltimore City in the year 1946 and in every fourth year thereafter, one person, resident in said county, or City, above the age of twenty-five years and at least five years preceding his election, a citizen of the State, to the office of Sheriff. He shall hold office for four years, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified; shall give such bond, exercise such powers and perform such duties as now are or may hereafter be fixed by law. In case of vacancy by death, resignation, refusal to serve, or neglect to qualify, or give bond, or by disqualification or removal from the County or City, the Governor shall appoint a person to be Sheriff for the remainder of the official term. The Sheriff in each county and in Baltimore City shall receive such salary or compensation and such expenses necessary to the conduct of his office as may be fixed by law. All fees collected by the Sheriff shall be accounted for and paid to the Treasury of the several counties and of Baltimore City, respectively. [Approved March 9,1953.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 113 021.0 002.0 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 315. Ratified 1954. (House Bill 184)] 21. The Governor shall reside at the seat of government, and, from and after the second Wednesday in January, 1955, shall receive for his services an annual salary of FIFTEEN Thousand Dollars. [Approved April 6, 1953.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 114 001.A 001.0 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 480. Ratified 1954 (House Bill 121)] 1A. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have power to provide by suitable enactment for voting by qualified voters of the State of Maryland who are absent [and engaged in the Military or Naval Service of the United States] at the time of any election from the ward or election district in which they are entitled to vote, and for the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent voters may vote, and for the canvass and return of their votes. [Approved April 11, 1953.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 115 003.0 004.0 1 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 607 . Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 257)] 3. THE JUDGES OF THE SAID SEVERAL COURTS SHALL BE ELECTED IN BALTIMORE CITY AND IN EACH COUNTY, BY THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY AND OF EACH COUNTY, RESPECTIVELY, EXCEPT THAT IN THE FIRST AND SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUITS THE SAID JUDGES OF THE SEVERAL COURTS SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE QUALIFIED VOTERS IN EACH RESPECTIVE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED, ALL OF THE SAID JUDGES TO BE ELECTED AT THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE TUESDAY AFTER THE FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, AS NOW PROVIDED FOR IN THE CONSTITUTION. EACH OF THE SAID JUDGES SHALL HOLD HIS OFFICE FOR THE TERM OF FIFTEEN YEARS FROM THE TIME OF HIS ELECTION, AND UNTIL HIS SUCCESSOR IS ELECTED AND QUALIFIED, OR UNTIL HE SHALL HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF SEVENTY YEARS, WHICHEVER MAY FIRST HAPPEN, AND BE RE-ELIGIBLE THERETO UNTIL HE SHALL HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF SEVENTY YEARS, AND NOT AFTER. IN CASE OF THE INABILITY OF ANY OF SAID JUDGES TO DISCHARGE HIS DUTIES WITH EFFICIENCY, BY REASON OF CONTINUED SICKNESS, OR OF PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY, IT SHALL BE IN THE POWER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS OF EACH HOUSE CONCURRING, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR, TO RETIRE SAID JUDGE FROM OFFICE. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 116 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 607 . Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 257)] 21. From and after January 1, 1955, there shall be IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH AND SEVENTH CIRCUITS at least one judge for each county, who shall be a resident of the county in which he shall hold office, and who shall be elected by the voters thereof, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court;, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. The number of judges for any of the CIRCUITS OR FOR ANY OF THE counties may be increased or decreased by the General Assembly from time to time, AND ANY VACANCY SO CREATED SHALL BE FILLED as provided in Section 5 of this Article except that IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITS there shall never be less than one judge for each county AND ALL OF THE CIRCUITS THERE SHALL NEVER BE less than three for each circuit. The senior judge in length of service shall be the chief judge of the circuit; the other judge or judges shall be associate judges. FROM AND AFTER DECEMBER 1, 1954, THERE SHALL BE NOT LESS THAN THREE JUDGES RESIDENT IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND NOT LESS THAN TWO JUDGES RESIDENT IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, AND IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, AND NOT LESS THAN THREE JUDGES RESIDENT IN BALTIMORE COUNTY. THE VACANCIES IN GARRETT, MONTGOMERY, AND PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY CREATED BY THE ADOPTION OF THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE FILLED AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 5 OF THIS ARTICLE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE THE VACANCIES IN ANNE ARUNDEL, BALTIMORE, AND ST. MARYS, COUNTIES CREATED BY THE ADOPTION OF THIS AMENDMENT SHALL NOT BE FILLED BY APPOINTMENT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 5 OF THIS ARTICLE; BUT AT THE FIRST BIENNIAL GENERAL ELECTION FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THIS AMENDMENT A JUDGE SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF ANNE ARUNDEL, BALTIMORE, AND ST. MARY'S, TALBOT, AND COUNTIES, RESPECTIVELY, TO FILL SUCH VACANCY IN EACH COUNTY. ANY OTHER VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE, ARUNDEL, BALTIMORE, AND ST. MARY'S, COUNTIES SHALL BE FILLED AS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 3 AND 5 OF THIS ARTICLE. The said judges shall hold such terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now prescribed or may hereafter be prescribed by rules or regulations by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. One judge in each of the first seven circuits shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges, or any of them, may hold special terms of their Courts, when in their discretion, the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. All provisions of the Constitution of Maryland and all Acts of the General Assembly relating to the Court of Appeals or any other courts, and all rules heretofore adopted by the Court of Appeals, not inconsistent with the provisions of the sections amended or added by this amendment, shall remain in full force and effect unless and until amended or repealed by proper authority. All salaries now prescribed by law for associate judges of the Circuit Courts shall continue to apply to all judges (including chief judges) of the Circuit Court, No member of the General Assembly at which either of these amendments was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as judge of the Court of Appeals or any other court by reason of his membership in such General Assembly. In the event and to the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of any section amended or added by these amendments and any of the other provisions of this Constitution or the provisions of any existing law, the provisions of the sections amended or added shall prevail, and such other provisions shall be repealed or abrogated to the extent of such inconsistency, except Section 35A of Article III of this Constitution; provided, however, that in the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the sections thus amended or added and any of the other provisions of the sections thus amended or added and any of the other provisions of this Constitution as amended by any other amendments which may be adopted at the same time or times as these amendments, i. e., at the election held in November, 1944, or at the election held in November, 1954, the changes made by these amendments and all such other amendments to this Constitution shall all be given effect. [Approved April 27, 1953.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 117 001.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 754. Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 217)] ARTICLE XID Port Development 1. The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: (a) To acquire land and property of every kind, and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in, adjoining or in the vicinity of the Patapsco River or its tributaries, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for or in connection with extending, developing or improving the harbor or port of Baltimore and its facilities and the highways and approaches thereto; and PROVIDING, FURTHER, THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE SHALL NOT ACQUIRE ANY SUCH LAND OR PROPERTY, OR ANY SUCH RIGHT, INTEREST, FRANCHISE, EASEMENT OR PRIVILEGE THEREIN, FOR ANY OF SAID PURPOSES, IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES OF THIS STATE WITHOUT THE PRIOR CONSENT AND APPROVAL BY RESOLUTION DULY PASSED AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING, BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH LAND OR PROPERTY, OR SUCH RIGHT, INTEREST, FRANCHISE, EASEMENT OR PRIVILEGE THEREIN, IS SITUATE; AND PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY SHALL RETAIN JURISDICTION AND POWER TO TAX ANY LAND SO ACQUIRED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT. (b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not it is undeveloped or has been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved and irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property taken by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article by exercising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land or property needed, or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may be granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a public use. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 118 002.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 754. Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 217)] 2. The General Assembly of Maryland may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of the specified powers which the General Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accomplish any and all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provisions of this Article, provided such additional power or authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitution of Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other and further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper and expedient. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 119 003.0 011.D 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1953, CHAPTER 754. Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 217)] 3. Provided, however, that no public local law enacted under the provisions and authority of this Article shall be enacted or construed to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to exercise or apply any of the powers or authority in this Article enumerated within the territorial limits of Howard COUNTY. [Approved May 6, 1953.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 120 022.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1954, CHAPTER 42. Ratifed 1954 (Senate Bill 95)] 22. A Secretary of State shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall continue in office, unless sooner removed by the Governor, till the end of the official term of the Governor from whom he received his appointment, and receive such annual salary as the General Assembly may from time to time by law prescribe. [Approved March 12, 1954.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 121 000.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland by adding a new Article thereto, to be known as Article 11-E under the title "Municipal Corporations", and to follow immediately after Article 11-D thereof, generally prohibiting the enactment by the General Assembly of local laws relating to those municipal corporations which are not authorized by Article 11-A of the Constitution to have a charter form of government with certain exceptions, and conferring powers of charter amendment and home rule upon such municipal corporations. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, (Three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses concurring), That the following Article, to follow immediately after Article 11-D, and to be known as Article 11-E, be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland which Article, if adopted by the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, as herein provided, shall thereby, by adoption, be and become a part of the Constitution of Maryland:] ARTICLE 11-E MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Section 1. Except as provided elsewhere in this Article, the General Assembly shall not pass any law relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of those municipal corporations which are not authorized by Article 11-A of the Constitution to have a charter form of government which will be special or local in its terms or in its effect, but the General Assembly shall act in relation to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any such municipal corporation only by general laws which shall in their terms and in their effect apply alike to all municipal corporations in one or more of the classes provided for in Section 2 of this Article. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law the method by which new municipal corporations shall be formed. Section 2. The General Assembly, by law, shall classify all such municipal corporations by grouping them into not more than four classes based on population as determined by the most recent census made under the authority of the United States or the State of Maryland. No more than one such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes shall be in effect at any time, and the enactment of any such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes shall repeal any such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes then in effect. Municipal corporations shall be classified only as provided in this section and not otherwise. Section 3. Any such municipal corporation, now existing or hereafter created, shall have the power and authority, (a) to amend or repeal an existing charter or local laws relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of said municipal corporation heretofore enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, and (b) to adopt a new charter, and to amend or repeal any charter adopted under the provisions of this Article. Section 4. The adoption of a new charter, the amendment of any charter or local laws, or the repeal of any part of a charter or local laws shall be proposed either by a resolution of the legislative body of any such municipal corporation or by a petition containing the signatures of at least five per cent of the registered voters of a municipal corporation and filed with the legislative body of said municipal corporation. The General Assembly shall amplify the provisions of this section by general law in any manner not inconsistent with this Article. Section 5. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Article, the General Assembly may enact, amend, or repeal local laws placing a maximum limit on the rate at which property taxes may be imposed by any such municipal corporation and regulating the maximum amount of debt which may be incurred by any municipal corporation. However, no such local law shall become effective in regard to a municipal corporation until and unless it shall have been approved at a regular or special municipal election by a majority of the voters of that municipal corporation voting on the question. NO SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL LEVY ANY TYPE OF TAX, LICENSE FEE, FRANCHISE TAX OR FEE WHICH WAS NOT IN EFFECT IN SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ON JANUARY 1, 1954, UNLESS IT SHALL RECEIVE THE EXPRESS AUTHORIZATION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR SUCH PURPOSE, BY A GENERAL LAW WHICH IN ITS TERMS AND ITS EFFECT APPLIES ALIKE TO ALL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN ONE OR MORE OF THE CLASSES PROVIDED FOR IN SECTION 2 OF THIS ARTICLE. All charter provisions enacted under the authority of Section 3 of this Article shall be subject to any local laws enacted by the General Assembly and approved by the municipal voters under the provisions of this section. Section 6. All charter provisions, or amendments there-to, adopted under the provisions of this Article, shall be subject to all applicable laws enacted by the General Assembly; except that any local laws, or amendments thereto, relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any municipal corporation and enacted before this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any charter provisions, or amendments thereto, adopted under the provisions of this Article. Any local law, or amendments thereto, relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any municipal corporation and in effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any applicable State law enacted after this Article becomes effective. All laws enacted by the General Assembly and in effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall remain in effect until amended or repealed in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, BY ANY AMENDMENT OR ADDITION TO ITS CHARTER, TO PERMIT ANY ACT WHICH IS PROHIBITED BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH DAY OR THE MANUFACTURE, LICENSING OR SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. [Approved March 12,1954.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 122 001.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) ARTICLE 11-E MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Section 1. Except as provided elsewhere in this Article, the General Assembly shall not pass any law relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of those municipal corporations which are not authorized by Article 11-A of the Constitution to have a charter form of government which will be special or local in its terms or in its effect, but the General Assembly shall act in relation to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any such municipal corporation only by general laws which shall in their terms and in their effect apply alike to all municipal corporations in one or more of the classes provided for in Section 2 of this Article. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law the method by which new municipal corporations shall be formed. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 123 002.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) Section 2. The General Assembly, by law, shall classify all such municipal corporations by grouping them into not more than four classes based on population as determined by the most recent census made under the authority of the United States or the State of Maryland. No more than one such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes shall be in effect at any time, and the enactment of any such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes shall repeal any such grouping of municipal corporations into four (or fewer) classes then in effect. Municipal corporations shall be classified only as provided in this section and not otherwise. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 124 003.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) Section 3. Any such municipal corporation, now existing or hereafter created, shall have the power and authority, (a) to amend or repeal an existing charter or local laws relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of said municipal corporation heretofore enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, and (b) to adopt a new charter, and to amend or repeal any charter adopted under the provisions of this Article. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 125 004.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) Section 4. The adoption of a new charter, the amendment of any charter or local laws, or the repeal of any part of a charter or local laws shall be proposed either by a resolution of the legislative body of any such municipal corporation or by a petition containing the signatures of at least five per cent of the registered voters of a municipal corporation and filed with the legislative body of said municipal corporation. The General Assembly shall amplify the provisions of this section by general law in any manner not inconsistent with this Article. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 126 005.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) Section 5. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Article, the General Assembly may enact, amend, or repeal local laws placing a maximum limit on the rate at which property taxes may be imposed by any such municipal corporation and regulating the maximum amount of debt which may be incurred by any municipal corporation. However, no such local law shall become effective in regard to a municipal corporation until and unless it shall have been approved at a regular or special municipal election by a majority of the voters of that municipal corporation voting on the question. NO SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL LEVY ANY TYPE OF TAX, LICENSE FEE, FRANCHISE TAX OR FEE WHICH WAS NOT IN EFFECT IN SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ON JANUARY 1, 1954, UNLESS IT SHALL RECEIVE THE EXPRESS AUTHORIZATION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR SUCH PURPOSE, BY A GENERAL LAW WHICH IN ITS TERMS AND ITS EFFECT APPLIES ALIKE TO ALL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN ONE OR MORE OF THE CLASSES PROVIDED FOR IN SECTION 2 OF THIS ARTICLE. All charter provisions enacted under the authority of Section 3 of this Article shall be subject to any local laws enacted by the General Assembly and approved by the municipal voters under the provisions of this section. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 127 006.0 011.E 0 MD 1867 1954 *** [Amendments 121-127 were all created by Act of 1954, CHAPTER 53 . Ratified 1954 (House Bill 88) Section 6. All charter provisions, or amendments there-to, adopted under the provisions of this Article, shall be subject to all applicable laws enacted by the General Assembly; except that any local laws, or amendments thereto, relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any municipal corporation and enacted before this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any charter provisions, or amendments thereto, adopted under the provisions of this Article. Any local law, or amendments thereto, relating to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs of any municipal corporation and in effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall be subject to any applicable State law enacted after this Article becomes effective. All laws enacted by the General Assembly and in effect at the time this Article becomes effective, shall remain in effect until amended or repealed in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, BY ANY AMENDMENT OR ADDITION TO ITS CHARTER, TO PERMIT ANY ACT WHICH IS PROHIBITED BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH DAY OR THE MANUFACTURE, LICENSING OR SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. [Approved March 12,1954.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 128 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1954 *** [CHAPTER 65 (Senate Bill 71)] 21. From and after December 1, 1954, there shall be at least three judges for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh circuits, and at least four judges in the sixth circuit to be styled judges of the Circuit Court to be elected or appointed as herein provided. The aforesaid number of judges for any of the circuits shall be subject to increase or decrease by the General Assembly . The senior judge in length of service shall be the chief judge of the circuit; the other judge or judges shall be associate judges. No two of said judges of the Circuit Court shall at the time of their election or appointment, or during the terms for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in any one county other than Baltimore, Montgomery, Prince George's or Allegany County and not more than two in any county except Baltimore County; and except further that after December 1, 1954, there shall be not less than three judges of the Circuit Court in Montgomery County and the vacancy hereby created shall be filled as provided in Section 5 of this Article. In case any candidate or candidates for judge at any election shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates could cause more judges than permitted by law to reside in any county of the circuit then and in that event there shall be declared elected only that candidate or those candidates residing in said county, in the order of the votes received, whose election would provide the permitted number of judges from said county and also the candidate or candidates residing in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of judges duly qualified as to residence shall not be elected at any election, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. The said judges shall hold such terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times, as are now prescribed or may hereafter be prescribed by rules or regulations by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. One judge in each of said seven circuits shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges, or any of them, may hold special terms of their Courts, when in their discretion, the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. All provisions of the Constitution of Maryland and all Acts of the General Assembly relating to the Court of Appeals or any other Courts, and all rules heretofore adopted by the Court of Appeals, not inconsistent with the provisions of the sections amended or added by this amendment, shall remain in full force and effect unless and until amended or repealed by proper authority. All salaries now prescribed by law for associate judges of the Circuit Courts shall continue to apply to all judges (including chief judges) of the Circuit Courts who are not judges of the Court of Appeals. No member of the General Assembly at which this amendment was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as judge of the Court of Appeals or any other court by reason of his membership in such General Assembly. In the event and to the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of any section amended or added by this amendment and any of the other provisions of this Constitution or the provisions of any existing law, the provisions of the sections amended or added shall prevail, and such other provisions shall be repealed or abrogated to the extent of such inconsistency, except Section 35A of Article III of this Constitution; provided, however, that in the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the sections thus amended or added and any of the other provisions of this Constitution as amended by any other amendments which may be adopted at the same tune as this amendment, i.e., at the election held in November, 1954, the changes made by this amendment and all such other amendments to this Constitution shall all be given effect and further provided that if the amendments proposed by Chapter 607 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1958 to Sections 3 and 21 of Article 4 of the Constitution of Maryland are adopted by the voters of the State at the election held in November, 1954, the amendments proposed herein to said Section 21 shall be null and void and of no effect whatsoever and shall not be included in any future copy or edition of the Constitution of Maryland or treated in any way as if effective. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 129 021.0 004.0 3 MD 1867 1954 *** [Act of 1954, CHAPTER 68. Ratified 1954. (Senate Bill 77)] 21. From and after December 1, 1954, there shall be at least three judges for the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh circuits, and at least four judges in the third circuit to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. The aforesaid number of judges for any of the circuits shall be subject to increase or decrease by the General Assembly. The senior judge in length of service shall be the chief judge of the circuit; the other judge or judges shall be associate judges. No two of said judges of the Circuit Court shall at the time of their election or appointment, or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in any one county other than Baltimore, Montgomery, Prince George's or Allegany County, and not more than two in any county except Baltimore County. In case any candidate or candidates for judge at any election shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of the circuit, then and in that event there shall be declared elected only that candidate or those candidates residing in said county, in the order of the votes received, whose election would provide the permitted number of judges from said county, and also the candidate or candidates residing in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number of votes in said election. If, by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more candidates a sufficient number of judges duly qualified as to residence shall not be elected at any election, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such unfilled office or offices. From and after December 1,1954, there shall be not less than three judges resident in Baltimore County. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the vacancy in Baltimore County created by the adoption of this amendment shall not be filled by appointment as provided in Section 5 of this Article; but at the first biennial general election for representatives in Congress after the adoption of this amendment, a judge shall be elected by the qualified voters of Baltimore County to fill such vacancy. Any other vacancy in the office of judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County shall be filled as provided in Sections 8 and 5 of this Article. The said judges shall hold such terms of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective circuits, at such times, as are now prescribed or may hereafter be prescribed by rules or regulations by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. One judge in each of said seven circuits shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business; and the said judges, or any of them may hold special terms of their Courts, when in their discretion, the business of the several counties renders such terms necessary. All provisions of the Constitution of Maryland and all Acts of the General Assembly relating to the Court of appeals or any other courts, and all rules heretofore adopted by the Court of Appeals, not inconsistent with the provisions of the sections amended or added by this amendment, shall remain in full force and effect unless and until amended or repealed by proper authority. All salaries now prescribed by law for associate judges of the Circuit Courts shall continue to apply to all judges (including chief judges) of the Circuit Courts who are not judges of the Court of Appeals. No member of the General Assembly at which this amendment was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election as judge of the Court of Appeals or any other court by reason of his membership in such General Assembly. In the event and to the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of any section amended or added by this amendment and any of the other provisions of this Constitution or the provisions of any existing law, the provisions of the sections amended or added shall prevail, and such other provisions shall be repealed or abrogated to the extent of such inconsistency, except Section 35A of Article III of this Constitution; provided, however, that in the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the sections thus amended or added and any of the other provisions of this Constitution as amended by any other amendments which may be adopted at the same time as this amendment; i. e., at the election held in November, 1954, the changes made by this amendment and all such other amendments to this Constitution shall all be given effect and further provided that if the amendments proposed by Chapter 607 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1953 to Sections 3 and 21 of Article 4 of the Constitution of Maryland are adopted by the voters of the State at the election held in November, 1954, the amendments proposed herein to said Section 21 shall be null and void and of no effect whatsoever and shall not be included in any future copy or edition of the Constitution of Maryland or treated in any way as if effective. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 130 003.0 011.A 0 MD 1867 1956 *** [Act of 1955, CHAPTER 557. ratified 1956 (Senate Bill 104)] ARTICLE XIA Local Legislation SEC. 3. Every charter so formed shall provide for an elective legislative body in which shall be vested the law-making power of said City or County. 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 presiding officer of said legislative body, if such charter shall not provide for the election of a chief executive officer, 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 Commissioners 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 a charter by the City of Baltimore, or any County of this State, as hereinbefore provided, the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the County Council of said County, subject to the Constitution and Public General Laws of this State, shall have full power to enact local laws of said City or County including the power to repeal or amend local laws of said City or County enacted by the General Assembly, upon all matters covered by the express powers granted as above provided; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or empower the County Council of any County in this State to enact laws or regulations for any incorporated town, village, or municipality in said County, on any matter covered by the powers granted to said town, village, or municipality by the Act incorporating it, or any subsequent Act or Acts amendatory thereto. Provided, however, that the charters for the various Counties shall [provide] specify the number of days, not to exceed forty-five, which may but need not be consecutive, that the County Council of the Counties [shall not] may sit [more than one month] in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation for such Counties, and all legislation shall be enacted [during the month] at the times so designated 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 Counties, so that the taxpayers and citizens may have notice thereof. This provision shall not apply to Baltimore City. All such local laws enacted by the Mayor of Baltimore and City Council of the City of Baltimore or the Council of the Counties as hereinbefore 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 local law and any Public General Law now or hereafter enacted the Public General Law shall control. [Approved April 25, 1955.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 131 027.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1956 *** [Act of 1955, CHAPTER 616. Ratified 1956. (Senate Bill 597) ] 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General Assembly and be altered, amended or rejected by the other, but no bill shall originate in either House during the last ten CALENDAR days of [the] regular session in even years or during the last twenty CALENDAR days of a regular session in odd years, unless two-thirds of the members elected thereto shall so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become a law until it be read on three different days of the session in each House, unless two-thirds of the members elected to the House where such bill is pending shall so determine by yeas and nays, and no bill shall be read a third time until it shall have been actually engrossed or printed for a third reading. [Approved April 25, 1955.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 132 011.0 002.0 0 MD 1867 1956 *** [Act of 1955, CHAPTER 626. Ratified 1956. (House Bill 89)] 11. In case of any vacancy during the recess of the Senate, in any office which the Governor has power to fill, he shall appoint some suitable person to said office, whose commission shall continue in force until the end of the next session of the Legislature, or until some other person is appointed to the same office, whichever shall first occur; and the nomination of the person thus appointed during the recess, or of some other person in his place, shall be made to the Senate on the first day of the next regular meeting of the Senate. [Approved April 25, 1955.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 133 052.0 003.0 0 MD 1867 1956 *** [Act of 1955, CHAPTER 725* Ratified 1956 Adopted (House Bill 529)] 52. (3) Within twenty days after the convening of the General ASSEMBLY IN ODD-NUMBERED YEARS, UNLESS SUCH TIME SHALL BE EXTENDED by the General Assembly, and on the first Wednesday in February in even-numbered years, the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a Budget for the next ensuing fiscal year. Each Budget shall contain a complete plan of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for said fiscal year and shall show the estimated surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of the preceding fiscal year. Accompanying each Budget shall be a statement showing: (a) the revenues and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year; (b) the current assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus or deficit of the State; (c) the debts and funds of the State; (d) an estimate of the State's financial condition as of the beginning and end of the preceding fiscal year; (e) any explanation the Governor may desire to make as to the important features of the Budget and any suggestions as to methods for reduction or increase of the State's revenue. *** MEND *** *** CEND ***