2158                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Town Council of Chesapeake Beach,
Maryland that the following amendments shall be made to the Town Charter:

1)  Section 17 is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows:
17. Ordinances.

No ordinance shall be passed at the meeting at which it is introduced. At any
regular or special meeting of the council held not less than six nor more than sixty
days after the meeting at which an ordinance was introduced, it shall be passed, or
passed as amended, or rejected, or its consideration deferred to some specified
future date. In cases of emergency the above requirements may be suspended by
the affirmative votes of five members of the council. Every ordinance, unless it be
passed as an emergency ordinance, shall become effective at the expiration of
twenty calendar days following approval by the mayor or passage by the council
over his veto, provided that no such ordinance shall become effective until seven
days after the last required publication. A fair summary of each ordinance shall be
published at least twice at not less than seven days interval in a newspaper or
newspapers having general circulation in the municipality, and the entire ordinance
shall also be posted in the Town Hall. An emergency ordinance shall become
effective on the date specified in the ordinance, but no ordinance shall become
effective until approved by the mayor or passed over his veto by the council.

2)  Section 19 is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows:
19. Referendum.

If, before the expiration of twenty, calendar days following approval of any
ordinance by the mayor or passage of any ordinance over the mayor's veto, or
seven days after the last required publication, whichever date is later, a petition is
filed with the clerk-treasurer containing the signatures of not less than twenty per
centum (20%) of the qualified voters of the town and requesting that the ordinance,
or any part thereof, be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the town for
their approval or disapproval, the council shall have the ordinance, or the part
thereof requested for referendum, submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the
town at the next regular town election or, in the council's discretion, at a special
election occurring before the next regular election. No ordinance, or the part
thereof requested for referendum, shall become effective following the receipt of
such petition until and unless approved at the election by a majority of the
qualified voters voting on the question. An emergency ordinance, or the part
thereof requested for referendum, shall continue in effect for sixty days following
receipt of such petition. If the question of approval or disapproval of any
emergency ordinance, or any part thereof, has not been submitted to the qualified
voters within sixty days following receipt of the petition, then the operation of the
ordinance, or the part thereof requested for referendum, shall be suspended until
approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question at any
election. Any ordinance, or part thereof, disapproved by the voters, shall stand
repealed. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any ordinance, or part
thereof, passed under the authority of Section 64, levying property taxes for the
payment of indebtedness, but the provisions of this section shall apply to any
ordinance, or any part thereof, levying special assessment charges under the
provisions of Sections 94 and 95. The provisions of this section shall be
self-executing, but the council may adopt ordinances in furtherance of these
provisions and not in conflict with them.