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MR. QUILLEN: Amendment No. 10 to Committee

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Recommendation No. GP-13 by Delegate Clagett and others:

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On page 28 Section 30. Procedure to Adopt a

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County Instrument of Government in line 2 after the word

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"Board" add the words "not to exceed nine"; and in line 6

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after the period add the following:

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"If additional Charter Board members are nominated

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by petitions signed by three percent of the registered voters

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of the county or by three thousand voters, whichever is less,

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which shall be delivered to the Board of County Commissioners

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within sixty days after the Charter Board shall have been

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appointed, then the Board of County Commissioners shall call

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a special election not less than thirty nor more than

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ninety days after receipt of the petitions unless a regular

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election falls within the designated period. The appointees

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of the Board of County Commissioners and those nominated by

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petitions shall be placed on the ballot in alphabetical

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order without party designation. The voters shall be

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entitled to cast votes for, and elect, a number of nominees

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equal to the number of Charter Board members originally

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selected by the Board of County Commissioners and those so