Kelly v. Marylanders for Sports Sanity, Inc.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Article XVI of the Constitution of Maryland, entitled “The Referendum,” in § 1(a), reserves to the people the power “to have submitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the General Assembly____” Section 2 of Art. XVI limits the right of referendum, in pertinent part, as follows:

“No law making any appropriation for maintaining the State Government, or for maintaining or aiding any public institution, not exceeding the next previous appropriation for the same purpose, shall be subject to rejection or…