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KELLY v. MARYLANDERS FOR SPORTS SANITY

No. 75, September Term, 1987.

310 Md. 437 (1987)

530 A.2d 245

WINFIELD M. KELLY, JR. AND GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE, INC. ET AL. v. MARYLANDERS FOR SPORTS SANITY, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Judson P. Garrett, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Baltimore and Robert A. Zarnoch, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Linda H. Lamone, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Catherine E. Bocskor, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Annapolis, on the brief), for appellant Secretary of State; George A. Nilson (Sheila Mosmiller Vidmar, John A. Singer and Piper & Marbury, on the brief), Baltimore, Md., for Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. et al.

Ronald L. Early (Harry W. Lerch, and Lerch, Early, Roseman & Frankel, Chartered, on the brief), Bethesda, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Article XVI of the Constitution of Maryland, entitled "The Referendum," in § 1(a), reserves to the people the power "to have submitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the General Assembly...." Section 2 of Art. XVI limits the right of referendum, in pertinent part, as follows:

"No law making any appropriation for maintaining the State Government, or for maintaining...

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