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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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House Bill No. 1677 - Calvert County - Local Laws
AN ACT concerning
Calvert County - Clarification of Local Laws
FOR the purpose of striking obsolete and redundant
sections of the Calvert County Code of Public Local
Laws; clarifying language; renumbering as
appropriate; making certain age requirements
consistent with State policy transferring certain
provisions of the Calvert County Code of Public
Local Laws to the Public General Laws; making the
Calvert County Code of Public local Laws more clear
and readable; and generally relating to a certain
conciseness, clarity and contemporary approach to
that Code.
May 26, 1977
Honorable John Hanson Briscoe
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404
Dear Mr. Speaker:
In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the
Maryland Constitution, I have today vetoed House Bill
1677.
This bill recodifies the public local law of Calvert
County, by deleting certain obsolete and redundant
provisions and revising certain other provisions.
Among the provisions this bill repeals and reenacts
are four sections relating to operation of slot machines.
Before enactment of the state-wide prohibition on
slot machines, the Calvert County provisions had
prescribed licensure requirements for persons who desired
to operate slot machines. In Clerk of Circuit Court v.
Chesapeake Beach Park, Inc., 251 Md. 657, 248 A. 2d. 479
(1968), the Court of Appeals held that these local
provisions were superceded, to the extent of any
inconsistency, by the later enacted prohibition.
This bill, by reenactment of the local provisions,
raises the converse possibility of the local provisions
superceding the general prohibition and thereby
authorizing licensure of slot machines. The Attorney
General has advised me that this interpretation of the
bill cannot be discounted absolutely. A copy of the
Opinion of the Attorney General is attached and should be
considered a part of this veto message.
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