ROCKVILLE 2311
I hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true and correct copy of a
Resolution adopted by the Mayor and Council of Rockville at its meeting
of June 29, 1971.
Jean R. Horneck, City Clerk
Charter Amendment No. 26
Resolution No. 42-71
Resolution of The Mayor and Council of Rockville adopted pur-
suant to the authority of Article XI-E of the Constitution of Mary-
land, Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Replacement Volume), title "Corporations—Municipal," sub-
title "Home Rule," and Sections 48-15A to 48-15G, inclusive, of the
Charter of The Mayor and Council of Rockville, as amended, to
amend the Charter of The Mayor and Council of Rockville, as set
forth in Sections 48-1 to 48-95, inclusive, of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Montgomery County (1965 Edition, as amended, being Article
16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland) to repeal and re-
enact, with amendments, Sections 48-60 thereof, to allow for special
assessments against all benefitted properties rather than abutting
properties alone.
Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by The Mayor and Council of Rockville
that the Charter of said municipal corporation as set forth in Sections
48-1 to 48-95, inclusive, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Montgomery
County (1965 Edition, as amended, being Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland) be and the same is hereby amended by repealing
and re-enacting, with amendments, Section 48-60 thereof, as follows:
Section 48-60. Streets, sidewalks, etc.; water and sewers; special
assessments, borrowing money, etc.
(a) The council is authorized and empowered whenever, in its judg-
ment, the public health, safety or comfort requires it, to grade, construct,
reconstruct, pave, provide street lighting for or otherwise improve any
street, sidewalk, alley, curb, curb and gutter and public highway, or parts
thereof, at such time and to such extent and of such materials and in such
manner as shall be provided by ordinance and to purchase, contract to
purchase, lay or contract to lay water mains and trunk and lateral sewers
in said city and to pay the costs of all such work and assess said cost,
or any part thereof, against the abutting property and any other prop-
erties benefitted thereby as hereinafter provided in this section. For the
purpose of this section, the term "water mains" shall include fire hydrants,
meters, valves and connections and all other service equipment. The fore-
going action may be initiated by the council on its own motion without
the filing of a petition by [abutting] property owners hereinafter pro-
vided for.
(b) Whenever a petition in writing, duly signed, by the owners of at
least twenty per cent of the front footage of all the property abutting
upon or to be benefitted by any such proposed public improvement shall be
filed with the council praying for the construction of any public improve-
ment herein mentioned, the council shall, after having given the notice
prescribed in the following section, hold a public hearing upon the matter
of such petition, and shall, as soon thereafter as may be convenient, render
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