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III - Legislative Department
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§1. The Legislature shall consist of two distinct branches; a Senate, and a House of Delegates, and …
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§2. The membership of the Senate shall consist of forty–seven (47) Senators. The membership of the H…
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§3. The State shall be divided by law into legislative districts for the election of members of the …
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§4. Each legislative district shall consist of adjoining territory, be compact in form, and of subst…
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§5. Following each decennial census of the United States and after public hearings, the Governor sha…
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§6. A member of the General Assembly shall be elected by the registered voters of the legislative or…
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§7. The election for Senators and Delegates shall take place on the Tuesday next, after the first Mo…
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§9. A person is eligible to serve as a Senator or Delegate, who on the date of the person’s election…
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§10. No member of Congress, or person holding any civil, or military office under the United States,…
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§11. No person holding any civil office of profit, or trust, under this State shall be eligible as S…
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§12. No Collector, Receiver, or Holder of public money shall be eligible as Senator or Delegate, or …
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§13. (a) (1) In case of death, disqualification, resignation, refusal to act, expulsion, or removal …
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§14. The General Assembly shall meet on the second Wednesday of January, nineteen hundred and sevent…
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§15. (1) The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interes…
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§16. No book, or other printed matter not appertaining to the business of the session, shall be purc…
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§17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, sha…
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§18. No Senator or Delegate shall be liable in any civil action, or criminal prosecution, whatever, …
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§19. Each House shall be judge of the qualifications and elections of its members, as prescribed by …
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§20. A majority of the whole number of members elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for t…
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§21. The doors of each House, and of the Committee of the Whole, shall be open, except when the busi…
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§22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and cause the same to be published. The yea…
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§23. Each House may punish by imprisonment, during the session of the General Assembly, any person, …
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§24. The House of Delegates may inquire, on the oath of witnesses, into all complaints, grievances a…
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§25. Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, at any…
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§26. The House of Delegates shall have the sole power of impeachment in all cases; but a majority of…
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§27. (a) Any bill may originate in either House of the General Assembly and be altered, amended or r…
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§28. No bill, nor single group of bills placed on the “consent calendar,” shall become a Law unless …
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§29. The style of all Laws of this State shall be, “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Marylan…
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§30. Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly, and sealed with the Great Seal, shall be prese…
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§31. A Law passed by the General Assembly shall take effect the first day of June next after the ses…
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§32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the State, by any order or resolution, nor except …
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§33. The General Assembly shall not pass local, or special Laws, in any of the following enumerated …
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§34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General Assembly unless such debt shall be authori…
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§35. Extra compensation may not be granted or allowed by the General Assembly to any public Officer,…
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§36. No lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorized by the General Assembly, unless it is a lot…
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§38. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction…
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§39. The books, papers and accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection under such regulations …
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§40. The General Assembly shall enact no Law authorizing private property, to be taken for public us…
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§43. The property of the wife shall be protected from the debts of her husband.
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§44. Laws shall be passed by the General Assembly, to protect from execution a reasonable amount of …
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§45. The General Assembly shall provide a simple and uniform system of charges in the offices of Cle…
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§46. The General Assembly shall have power to receive from the United States, any grant, or donation…
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§48. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special Act, except …
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§49. The General Assembly shall have power to regulate by Law, not inconsistent with this Constituti…
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§50. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, at its first session, held after the adoption of …
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§51. The personal property of residents of this State, shall be subject to taxation in the County or…
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§52. (1) The General Assembly shall not appropriate any money out of the Treasury except in accordan…
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§53. (a) There is a Transportation Trust Fund. (b) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this sect…
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§54. No County of this State shall contract any debt, or obligation, in the construction of any Rail…
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§55. The General Assembly shall pass no Law suspending the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
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§56. The General Assembly shall have power to pass all such Laws as may be necessary and proper for …
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§57. The Legal Rate of Interest shall be Six per cent. per annum; unless otherwise provided by the G…
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§58. The Legislature shall provide by Law for State and municipal taxation upon the revenues accruin…
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§59. The Legislature shall pass no law creating the office of “State Pension Commissioner,” or estab…
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§60. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have the power to provide by suitable general enactment …
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§61. (a) The General Assembly may authorize and empower any county or any municipal corporation, by …