2000                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

County (Everstine, 1965) as amended, be and the same is hereby amended
by repealing Section 739 thereof and re-enacting Section 739 with amend-
ments, as follows:

739. Mayor and Council; election, qualifications.

The government of the city shall be vested in and enforced by a Mayor
and Common Council of five members who shall be elected by the in-
habitants of the city qualified to vote for delegates to the General Assembly
who have actually resided within the corporate limits of the City of
Westminster not less than six months preceding a municipal election of
said city, and whose names shall appear upon the books of registered
voters as hereinafter provided. The Mayor shall be at least twenty-five
years of age, and a payer of taxes on the assessed value of at least one
thousand dollars' worth of property subject to municipal taxation; the
members of the Common Council shall be at least twenty-one years of age
and payers of taxes upon the assessed value of at least five hundred
dollars' worth of property subject to municipal taxation; and the Mayor
shall have resided at least two years and the members of the Council at
least one year within said City. [At the election to be held on the first
Monday of May, 1910, the Mayor and the two members of the Council
receiving the highest number of votes shall hold office for the period of
two years; the three other members of the Council holding for only one
year; and if at this election there shall be a tie between more than two
candidates with the highest number of votes, the ones to hold office for
two years shall be publicly determined by lot, after due notice to the
parties interested by the judges of the election. At the election to be held
in May, 1911, there shall be three members of the Council elected for a
period of two years, and at the election in the year 1912, the Mayor, with
two members of the Council, shall be elected for two years, and so alter-
nately from year to year thereafter.] THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF
THE CITY SHALL ELECT THREE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL ON
THE SECOND MONDAY OF MAY, 1967 AND EVERY FOUR YEARS
THEREAFTER, AND SHALL ELECT A MAYOR AND TWO MEM-
BERS OF THE COUNCIL ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF MAY, 1969,
AND EVERY FOUR YEARS THEREAFTER. THE TERMS OF THE
THREE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WHOSE TERMS
ARE DUE TO EXPIRE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF MAY, 1967
SHALL EXPIRE ON SUCH DAY AND THE TERMS OF THE MAYOR
AND THE TWO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WHOSE TERMS ARE
DUE TO EXPIRE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF MAY, 1968 SHALL
EXPIRE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF MAY, 1969. [said] SAID elec-
tions shall be held [annually on the second Monday of May] at such place
as shall be designated by the Mayor between the hours of seven o'clock
A.M. and seven o'clock in the evening. The Mayor shall give at least two
weeks' notice of the election in the newspapers published in Westminster
and by such other means as he may elect, and shall appoint three judges
of election. The said judges shall have power to appoint a clerk, who
shall keep