698                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 423

(B) PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF THE LEGISLATIVE
BODY SHALL APPROVE OF THE AMENDMENT OR AMEND-
MENTS PROVIDED FOR IN THE PETITION PRESENTED TO
IT UNDER SUB-SECTION (A) ABOVE, IT SHALL HAVE THE
RIGHT BY RESOLUTION TO ADOPT THE AMENDMENT OR
AMENDMENTS THEREBY PROPOSED AND TO PROCEED
THEREAFTER IN THE SAME MANNER AS IF THE AMEND-
MENT OR AMENDMENTS HAD BEEN INITIATED BY SUCH
LEGISLATIVE BODY AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRO-
VISIONS OF SECTION 13 OF THIS ARTICLE.

15.  (Posting and Publication.) The mayor or other chief executive
officer of the municipal corporation, by whatever name known, shall
give notice by posting and publication of any submission of a pro-
posed charter amendment to the voters thereof. for not less than
the four weeks immediately preceding the election at which the ques-
tion is to be submitted, a complete and exact copy of the wording of
the proposed amendment or amendments shall be posted at the Town
Hall or other main municipal building or in a public place. On the
day of the election, a similar copy shall be posted at the place or
places for voting. Or, in lieu of such posting, there shall be posted a
statement that, if the amendment is adopted, the municipal corpora-
tion shall be governed under and according to the municipal corpora-
tion charter contained in Article 2SB of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Municipal Corporation Charter", and that this
municipal corporation charter comprises the proposed amendment.
Notice of the election, together with a fair summary of the pro-
posed amendment or amendments, shall be published in a newspaper
of general circulation in the municipal corporation, not less than
once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the election.

16.   (Referendum.) (a) On the day and during the hours specified
for any referendum, the proposed charter amendment or amendments
shall be submitted to the registered QUALIFIED voters of the
municipal corporation. The official or officials thereof whose duty
it is to arrange for and conduct the regular municipal elections shall
perform the same duties so far as relevant to the referendum election
on the proposed charter amendment or amendments. It is the intent
of this section that the referendum election shall be conducted gen-
erally according to the procedures and practices observed for regular
municipal elections, except as specifically or necessarily modified by
the provisions of this sub-heading. The wording specified by the
legislative body of the municipal corporation, in the resolution pro-
viding for a referendum on the charter amendment or amendments,
shall be placed on the ballots or voting machines used at the refer-
endum election. The expenses of the referendum election shall be
defrayed by the municipal corporation.

(b)  The official or officials charged with the duty to arrange for
and conduct the referendum, promptly following the closing of the
polls, shall tally the results thereof, and shall forthwith certify the
results of the referendum to the mayor or other chief executive officer
of the municipal corporation.

(c)  If a majority of those who vote on any question so submitted
to the voters of the municipal corporation shall cast their votes in
favor of the proposed charter amendment or amendments, the mayor