632 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 251

charter, and meetings not held on due time may be held as soon
thereafter as practicable. )

78(122-5) (Elections, Town Meeting, Qualifications. ) There
shall be an annual meeting of the qualified voters of Chevy
Chase Village on the third Monday of April. The Board of
Managers shall give notice of the time and place of such meet-
ing a reasonable time prior thereto.

(a) On the third Monday in April, 1951, three members of
the said Board of Managers shall be elected to serve for one
year and four members to serve for two years. On the third
Monday in April, 1952, and on the third Monday of April in
each following year, an election meeting shall be held at which
Board members shall be elected for two years to succeed those
whose terms are at that time expiring, and at which Board
members shall be elected to fill any vacancies that may then
exist, but the Board members so elected to fill such vacancies
shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired term to
which they shall have been elected. All elections shall be held
upon reasonable prior notice of the time and place of such
meeting to all registered, qualified voters within the corporate
limits of Chevy Chase Village. Only registered, qualified voters
of the State of Maryland having lived within the corporate
limits of Chevy Chase Village for six months prior to the elec-
tion shall be eligible to be elected as members of the Board of
Managers. Only registered, qualified voters of the State of
Maryland having resided within the corporate limits of
Chevy Chase Village for six months prior to the election shall
be entitled to vote at said meeting.

(b) Following each election each newly elected Board mem-
ber shall qualify by taking an oath to support the Constitu-
tion of Maryland and the Constitution of the United States
and that he will faithfully and diligently perform the duties
of his office without favor, partiality or prejudice; and said
oath shall be filed among the records of Chevy Chase Village.

(c) If any newly elected Board member fails to so qualify,
or if any Board member shall remove his residence from the
corporate limits of Chevy Chase Village, or if a vacancy shall
occur by resignation, death or for any other reason, such office
shall be deemed to have become vacant. Vacancies in the Board
of Managers which occur before the annual election herein-
before provided for may be filled by appointment, by a favor-
able vote of at least four of the remaining Board of Man-
agers, of a registered, qualified voter of the State of Maryland
having resided in Chevy Chase Village for six months prior to
his appointment, to serve upon qualification as required by a
newly elected Board member until the next regular election.