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PORTEN SULLIVAN CORP. v. STATE

No. 93, September Term, 1989.

318 Md. 387 (1990)

568 A.2d 1111

PORTEN SULLIVAN CORPORATION ET AL. v. STATE OF MARYLAND ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 6, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Albert Figinski (Kathleen McDermott, Weinberg and Green, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.

Arthur B. Spitzer, Elizabeth Symonds, American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the Nat. Capital Area, Washington, D.C., Fred R. Joseph, Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, Greenbelt, amicus curiae for American Civil Liberties Union of Nat. Capital Area and Prince George's County Chapter of ACLU.

Robert A. Zarnoch, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kathryn M. Rowe, Carmen Shepard, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), Annapolis, Roger D. Redden (Kurt J. Fischer, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Ronald D. Schiff, General Counsel to Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Com'n, Hyattsville, Michael P. Whalen, County Atty., Bruce L. Marcus, Sp. Counsel and Michael O. Connaughton, Deputy County Atty., Upper Marlboro, Walter H. Maloney, Beltsville, on briefs), for respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.

ADKINS, Judge.

Among the several provisions of Article III, § 29 of the Maryland Constitution is the declaration that "every Law enacted by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title." This case involves the "one-subject" mandate. We shall hold that Chapter 244, Acts of 1989, violates that constitutional command. We shall further hold that the measure's "ethics" provisions are severable from its "tax" provisions...

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