§ 201. Composition, mode of election, etc.

(a)

Residence requirement. There shall be a county council of Baltimore County composed of seven members, each one of whom shall, at the time of his election and for two years prior thereto and during his full term of office, reside in a different one of the seven councilmanic districts described in Section 206 of this Article.

(b)

Mode of election. All members of the county council shall be elected by the voters in the councilmanic district in which they reside, and they shall likewise be nominated as members of the General Assembly are or may be nominated under provisions of the laws of the State of Maryland.
(Petitioned to referendum; approved by voters Nov., 1972)

  Annotation— Paragraph (b), as it existed before the referendum of 1972, was interpreted in Gray vs. Board of Supervisors of Elections, 243 Md. 657, 222 A.2d 176 (1966).
 The procedure for selection of the initial council was upheld in Tyler v. Board of Supervisors of Elections, 213 Md. 37, 131 A.2d 247 (1957).