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SEC. 8. QUORUM. A majority of the members elected to the
Council shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less
. number may adjourn from time to time and compel the atten-
dance of absent members in such manner and under such penal-
ties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote
of a majority of the members elected to the Council shall be
necessary to adopt any ordinance, resolution, order or vote;
except that a vote to adjourn, or regarding the attendance of
absent members, may be adopted by a majority of the mem-
bers present. No member shall be excused from voting except
on matters involving the consideration of his own official con-
duct or when his financial interests are involved.

SEC. 9. INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES AND RES-
OLUTIONS. Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in
the Council only in written or printed form. All ordinances,
except ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codi-
fying or rearranging existing ordinances or enacting a code of
ordinances, shall be confined to one subject, and the subject, or
subjects, of all ordinances shall be clearly expressed in the
title. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to
the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed
until it has been read on two separate days, unless the re-
quirements for reading it on two separate days be dispensed
with by a vote of not less than four members of Council. The
final reading of each ordinance shall be in full unless a writ-
ten or printed copy thereof shall have been furnished to each
Councilman prior to such reading. The yeas and nays shall
be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions
and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the Coun-
cil. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be "Be it or-
dained by the Council of the Town of Greenbelt".

SEC 10. WHEN ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS TAKE EFFECT.
All ordinances and resolutions passed by the Council shall
take effect at the time indicated therein but not less than ten
days after the date of their passage.

SEC. 11. AUTHENTICATION AND PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCES
AND RESOLUTIONS. Upon its final passage each ordinance or
resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor
and the town clerk and shall be recorded in a book kept for
that purpose. Each ordinance and resolution shall be pub-
lished as soon as possible after its passage by posting it in the
community hall for ten days or by publishing it once within
ten days in a newspaper of general circulation in the town, or
both.

SEC. 12. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. The regular election for
the choice of Councilmen shall be held on the third Tuesday of