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sioner, a person must be a resident of the Town for at least one year;
The Commission shall meet annually on the second Monday in June
to organize and elect from its members a President; there shall be
no office of Mayor; ordinances may be passed at the meeting at which
introduced and may be made immediately effective; there shall be no
executive veto; the affirmative vote of two Commissioners shall be
necessary and sufficient to pass any ordinance; there shall be no board
of election supervisors; the Clerk-Treasurer shall be in charge of
registration and of elections and shall not be a candidate for office;
registration of voters shall be held annually on the first Monday of
May; only registered individuals may vote; there shall be no primary
elections for municipal office; nominations for the office of Commis-
sioner shall be made upon certificate signed by five registered voters
and filed 20 days before election date, which shall be the first Monday
in June; write-in votes shall be permitted; the polls shall be open
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; unpaid municipal taxes shall be overdue on
October 1 and may be collected by complying with State law (and in
the case of personal property in the same manner as unpaid rent, by
way of distraint); the Town may borrow money for any public pur-
pose and may issue general obligation bonds, bond application notes
or tax anticipation notes in accordance with applicable general law,
provided, however, that the same may, if authorized by ordinance, be
sold at private sale; payment may be as provided by ordinance but
shall ultimately be secured by a pledge of the Town's full faith and
credit; there shall be no classified service; no provision is made for
the relationship of special assessments to assessed value, but such
assessments are limited to 40 years' duration; the oath of office may
be taken before any Maryland Notary Public, who shall certify the
same.

Edith J. Porter, Clerk

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by The Commissioners of Church
Hill that the Charter of the municipal corporation of the State of
Maryland known as "The Commissioners of Church Hill," as the same
is set forth in Sections 135 to 171 inclusive, of Article 18 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition) (except that the corporate
limits, defined in Chapter 435 of the Laws of Maryland of 1886 shall
continue to be the corporate limits of Church Hill until changed in accord-
ance with applicable law) be and the same is hereby repealed, and a new
Charter, adopting substantially the provisions of the Charter set forth in
Article 23B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), titled
"Municipal Corporation Charter," with certain differences and exceptions,
be and the same is hereby enacted in lieu thereof to stand in the place of
the Charter repealed, to read as follows:

GENERAL CORPORATE POWERS

1. The inhabitants of the Town of Church Hill within the corporate
limits legally established from time to time are hereby constituted and
continued as a body corporate by the name of "The Commissioners of
Church Hill" with all the privileges of a body corporate, by that name to
sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any Court of law or equity,
to have and use a common seal and to have perpetual succession, unless the
charter and the corporate existence are legally abrogated.