Ritchmount Partnership v. Board of Supervisors of Elections

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• holding that Art. XI-A authorized the County’s Charter to provide for a referendum on Council ordinances
• holding that Art. XI-A conferred on the citizens of Anne Arundel County the right to reserve to themselves by express charter provision the power to refer legislation enacted by their County Council
• noting that the people’s power to use the referendum was enacted “[i]n response to the public outcry over corruption in state government and alleged abuses of legislative power....”
• \The effect of the language in the opening sentence of Sect. 3 is to render the council the ultimate repository of all legislative power possessed by the county.\
• “The effect of the language in the opening sentence of Sect. 3 is to render the council the ultimate repository of all legislative power possessed by the county.”
• charter adopted under Article XI-A of the Constitution may reserve to voters the right to petition an enactment of the county council to referendum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).