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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="4-303" title_number="4" title_name="In General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Amendment or Repeal of Charter">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In conformity with the requirement imposed on the General Assembly under Article III, § 29 of the Maryland Constitution:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a resolution or petition to amend a municipal charter shall contain the exact text of the proposed charter amendment, prepared so that each provision is shown as the provision would read when amended or enacted;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>except as provided in subsection (e)(2) of this section, a provision of a municipal charter may not be amended by reference to its title or citation only; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a municipal charter amendment shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>embrace one subject only; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>describe the subject in its title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A proposed amendment shall identify the provision to be amended by citing the code or other publication or amendment in which the most recent text of the provision appears.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Proposed amendments shall be in a consecutively numbered series.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A proposed amendment shall provide specifically for the repeal of a provision of the municipal charter that is inconsistent with the amended provision.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In a proposal to amend a municipal charter:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each addition shall be underscored, italicized, or shown in capital letters;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, each provision to be repealed shall be enclosed in double parentheses or boldface brackets; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>each new section shall be underscored, italicized, or shown in capital letters or contain some marginal or other notation to that effect.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each entire section to be repealed need not be written out in full and enclosed in double parentheses or boldface brackets.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
