Ritchmount Partnership v. Board of Supervisors of Elections
Court of Appeals of Maryland
September Term, 1977.]
1Opinion of the CourtLevine, J.
We consider in these two appeals the constitutionality of Article III, § 308 of the Charter of Anne Arundel County and specifically whether the people of a home rule county may confer upon themselves the power of referendum over local legislative enactments, where such power was neither delegated by act of the General Assembly nor expressly reserved to the inhabitants of charter counties by the Constitution of this State. 1
In ratifying § 308, the voters of Anne Arundel County sought to retain the right to approve or reject by way of petition and popular election ordinances of the Anne Arundel…
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