Gaithersburg                                     2147

Approved this 1st day of November, 1971.

Harold C. Morris, Mayor

EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCE: December 21,1971.
VOTE OF COUNCIL: 4 Ayes—1 Nay (All present and voting)

Ordinance No. 0-10-71

Proposing Amendment of the City Charter requiring removal from
registration lists of persons failing to vote for five years.

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Mayor and Council of Gaithersburg, in pub-
lic meeting assembled that Section 27 of the Charter of the City of Gaith-
ersburg be and it hereby is amended to read as follows:

"27. Registration shall be permitted in the City Office during regular
office hours every day such offices are open, except that registration shall
not be permitted within thirty days immediately prior to any regular or
special election. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions to keep the registration lists up-to-date by striking from the lists
any person who has died, or who has become ineligible to vote in City elec-
tions, or who has not voted in a City election, general, primary, special or
referendum, within the five preceding calendar years. Registration of any
person shall be permanent until stricken pursuant hereto."

I Hereby Certify that the foregoing Ordinance proposing amendment
to the City Charter was introduced by a vote of a majority of the Council
on November 1, 1971.

Sanford W. Daily, City Manager

ADOPTED by the City Council of Gaithersburg this 1st day of Novem-
ber, 1971.

Harold C. Morris, President of the City Council

Delivered to the Mayor of Gaithersburg this 1st day of November, 1971.

Sanford W. Daily, City Manager
Approved this 1st day of November, 1971.

Harold C. Morris, Mayor

EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCE: December 21, 1971.
VOTE OF COUNCIL: Unanimous (All present and voting)

Ordinance No. 0-11-71

Proposing amendment of the City Charter relating to Capital Ap-
propriations.

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Mayor and Council of Gaithersburg, in
public meeting assembled that Section 44 of the Charter of the City of
Gaithersburg be and it hereby is amended to read as follows:

"All appropriations for operating expenses shall lapse at the end of
the budget year to the extent that they shall not have been expended or
lawfully encumbered. All appropriations for capital expenditures, to the
extent that they shall not have been expended or lawfully encumbered at