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of Maryland, and provided further that notice of any such sale, lease,
exchange or other disposition, and of the approval thereof by said Public
Service Commission, shall be inserted by said municipal corporation in
some newspaper published in the corporate limits thereof, or published in
the county in which said municipal corporation is situate if there shall be
no newspaper published in said corporate limits, at least twice within
fifteen days after the date of order of such approval by said Public Service
Commission.

See sec. 386, et seq

1927, ch 690, sec. 193B.

193B. In addition to the conditions and limitations imposed by Sec-
tion 193A of this Article, any such proposed sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition of any municipally owned electric plant and/or gas plant, as
defined and contemplated by said section, shall also be ratified by the
affirmative vote of a majority of such persons, residing within the corporate
limits of such municipal corporation and eligible to vote at the last pre-
ceding regular election therein for municipal officers, who shall cast ballots
at a special election for that purpose, to be arranged for and held at such
time and place within such municipal corporation and in such manner as
such municipal corporation shall prescribe, provided and on condition that
a written petition to such municipal corporation requesting it to arrange
for and hold such special election for such ratification or disapproval of
any such sale, lease, exchange or other disposition, shall be signed by at
least ten per cent, of the voters in such municipal corporation, qualified as
aforesaid in this section, and shall be delivered to said municipal corpora-
tion within thirty days after the date of publication of the second notice
required by Section 193A; and if any such sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition shall be ratified as aforesaid at such special election, then such
municipal corporation shall forthwith execute all transfers or other title
papers necessary to consummate and effectuate any such sale, lease, ex-
change or other disposition. But if no such petition for a special election
be signed and delivered to said municipal corporation, as aforesaid, within
the said period of thirty days after the date of publication of the second
notice required by said Section 193A, as aforesaid, then ratification of
any such proposed sale, lease, exchange or other disposition by said voters,
as heretofore authorized in this section, shall not be required and no
such special election for that purpose shall be held, and any such mu-
nicipal corporation shall forthwith execute all transfers or other title
papers necessary to consummate and effectuate any such sale, lease, ex-
change or other disposition, and any such sale, lease, or other disposition
shall be as valid and effective as though the same had been actually ratified
by the said voters at a special election petitioned for and held as herein
authorized; and provided further, that nothing contained in said Section
193A or in this section shall in any way be construed to qualify, limit or
abridge the power and authority, now or hereafter conferred upon any
such municipal corporation by its charter or by special Act of the General