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quirement of more than one year."
THE CHAIRMAN: Amendment 7-A to
Amendment No. 7 is offered by Delegate
Gullett as a substitute for Amendment No.
7. Is there a second?
(The amendment was duly seconded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment hav-
ing been seconded the Chair recognizes
Delegate Gullett, to speak to the amend-
ment.
DELEGATE GULLETT: Mr. Chairman,
I think Amendment 7-A satisfies the re-
quirements of Delegate Storm. I think it
satisfies the requirements of the majority
of the Committee. I think it also should
almost totally satisfy the minority.
It simply does this. It will allow Ocean
City and other vacation communities to
continue their present practice of allowing
non-resident voters to vote.
There has been no problem with this at
the present time. This has not really been
a problem, but it could be a problem. It
could in the future time become a very
serious problem.
I would like to mention one municipality
in this State that was organized about fif-
teen years ago or less. In fact, one of our
delegates lives in the municipality, Dele-
gate Boilean. This municipality was or-
ganized by the developer who became the
Mayor, and the members of his corporation
were the council. They did not live in this
place. They could have gotten the insurance
company to set up the city charter to pro-
vide that every stockholder could become a
voter.
There could have been 10,000 voters in
this municipality before it even got off
the ground. This could be a real abuse, and
my amendment would allow the General
Assembly to control it. They could limit
the amount of property. This should do
the trick.
The second part of the amendment —
this became a whole new section here of
section 2 — merely reiterates the majority
requirements and I feel that they are
proper. However there could be allowed a
one-year residency requirement. They have
spoken of that. They are quite correct in
that opinion.
Municipal affairs sometimes do not get
the publicity that they should get.
The average person moving into a
strange municipality does not know about
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the problems there. This amendment also
carries out the same requirement as to the
voting age. I would like to point out in
this respect that the figure nineteen years
is to be construed strictly as the same fig-
ure that is mentioned in section 1 ; if that
nineteen figure gets changed to some other
figure, as I assume is still possible, that
figure will automatically get changed.
Anybody voting for this substitute mo-
tion would not be voting for the voting age
of nineteen one way or the other. That fig ure is there to indicate that that is the
same figure that is in section 1.
This would be allowed and that is the
purpose of this wording. I submit to you
that this amendment does put the munici-
pal corporation elections under the control
of the General Assembly.
I think that it satisfies Delegate Storm
and I think it satisfies the majority and
minority, and I urge its adoption.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: Unless Mr. Moser
and others have some thoughts on this, I
will follow the advice of my wife who says
that Mr?. Gullett is a wonderful person and
I should get to know her husband.
I have not been able to do that, but I
believe he has a better amendment. I am
willing to go along with it if he does not
mind. I will withdraw mine and make his
not 7-A but 7 unless local government has
some different thoughts.
I believe Delegate Gullett's proposal does
satisfy everybody, including me.
TPIE CHAIRMAN: Do you have any
comment to make to Dr. Storm's sugges-
tion?
DELEGATE MOSER: No, I do not.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm, do
you withdraw your Amendment No. 7 so
that 7-A may be substituted for it?
DELEGATE STORM: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well. Amend-
ment No. 7 is withdrawn and Amendment
No. 7-A is substituted. It will retain the
number 7-A so that we do not lose track
of our numbers.
Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. Chairman and
fellow delegates, it seems to me that these
two amendments do not in any way result
in the same thing.
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