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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and Commissioners
of the Town of Elkton be and they are hereby specifically enjoined and
instructed to carry out the provisions as contained herein, and as evidence
of said compliance they shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting appropriate certification of publication of the newspaper in which
the title of this Resolution shall have been published and shall declare
the charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing the sig-
nature of the Mayor in the space provided on the effective date hereof.

The date of enactment of this Resolution for charter amendment is
the 3rd day of March, 1971, and said charter amendment shall become
effective fifty (50) days from this date, or the 23rd day of April, 1971.

THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TOWN OF ELKTON

By: Kennth A. Wilcox, Mayor
ATTEST:

Mary D. Lippin, Secretary

Resolution amending Section 22 of the Charter of

the Town of Elkton relative to Election Dates;

filing of Candidates, and terms of office

Resolution of the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton,
adopted pursuant to the authority of Article 11E of the Constitution
of Maryland, and Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Corporations—Municipal" as said
section was enacted by Chapter 423 of the Laws of Maryland of 1955,
to add a new section to the Code of the Public Local Laws of Cecil
County of 1953, said new section to be known as Section 22, and
constituting an amendment to the municipal charter of the body
politic and corporate known as the Mayor and Commissioners of the
Town of Elkton, said new section to change election dates, filing of
candidates, and terms of office.

WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 13 of Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition) the Mayor and Commis-
sioners of the Town of Elkton are desirous of amending Section 22 of the
charter of the Town of Elkton relating to election dates, filing of candi-
dates, and terms of office.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Commissioners of
the Town of Elkton, that Section 22 of the charter of the Town of Elkton
be and it is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 22 (a)—On the fourth Monday of May starting with the
year 1971, duly registered voters shall elect a Mayor who shall serve for a
term of three years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.
At the end of this term all following terms shall be for four years and
until his successor is duly elected and qualified.

(b) On the fourth Monday in May starting with the year 1971, the
duly registered voters shall elect by ballot two Commissioners who shall
serve for a term of three years and until their successors are duly elected
and qualified. At the end of this term the following terms shall be for
four year periods and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.