2128                                MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Section 601. County Personnel Board.

There shall be established a County Personnel Board, composed of
[three] five members who are qualified voters of the County, appointed
by the County Council in Executive Session. The original members of the
Board shall be appointed [for terms expiring one, two and three years
respectively,] as follows: two for a term of one year, two for two years,
and one for three years, from the date of their appointment, as designated
by the County Council at the time of appointment. All appointments there-
after shall be for a term of three years, except that any member appointed
to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of a term shall be
appointed only for the remainder of that term. Members of the Board
shall receive such compensation, if any, as may be determined by the
County Council in Executive Session. Said members each year shall select
one of their number as Chairman of said Board. The Administrative
Director or the Assistant Administrative Director shall serve as Secretary
of the County Personnel Board.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that this Act, haying
been approved by not less than four members of the County Council of
Wicomico County, said proposed amendments shall be published by the
Administrative Director in one or more newspapers of general circulation
in Wicomico County once each week for five successive weeks prior to the
next General election or Congressional election occurring after the pas-
sage hereof and at said election the question shall be submitted to the
voters of the County and if at said election the majority of the votes cast
on the question shall be in favor of the herein proposed amendments, such
amendments shall stand adopted and become a part of the Charter of
Wicomico County, Maryland, from and after the thirtieth day following
said election in accordance with Article XI, Section 1102 of the Charter of
Wicomico County, Maryland.

CERTIFIED CORRECT AS PASSED
Richard S. Wootten, President
David H. Clark, Secretary

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT Twenty-five (25) copies of the above
Bill are available for distribution to the public and press at the time of its
introduction.

David H. Clark, Secretary

Legislative Session (Second) June, 1968
Chapter 7

(Bill No. 7)

Introduced June 3, 1968

By: Mr. Wootten, Mr. Riley,

Mr. Burnett, Mr. Grier and

Mr. Insley

An Act to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Article VII en-
titled "Budgetary and Fiscal Procedures"; Section 703 entitled
"Expense budget and budget message"; Subsection (d) entitled
"Inspection of documents; hearings" and Subsection (e) entitled
"Adoption of budget" of the Charter of Wicomico County, Maryland,
as adopted by the voters of said Wicomico County, Maryland, on
November 3, 1964, for the purpose of changing the dates on which a