Frederick                                       2319

safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare of the
city; to provide good civic design and arrangement; to promote the wise
and efficient expenditure of public funds; to make adequate provisions for
traffic; to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; to prevent
the overcrowding of land and to avoid undue concentration of population;
to provide adequate light and air; and to make adequate provision for
public utilities, water, sewage disposal, parks, and other public require-
ments.

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the date of the
passage of this Resolution is March 20, 1969, and the amendment of the
Charter of the City of Frederick, hereby enacted, shall become effective
on May 9, 1969, unless a proper petition for a referendum herein shall be
filed as provided by Section 13 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, and provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution
shall be continuously posted at City Hall, Frederick, Maryland, until April
29,1969, and provided further that a fair summary of the proposed amend-
ment shall be published in the News & Post, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Frederick, once in each of the weeks of March
25, 1969 and April 1, 8 and 15, 1969; and that all sections of the charter
or ordinances or parts of sections of the charter or ordinances inconsistent
with the provisions of this Resolution be and the same are hereby repealed
to the extent of such inconsistency.

Section 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDAINED that
the Mayor of Frederick shall send separately by registered mail to the
Secretary of the State of Maryland and the Department of Legislative
Reference the complete text hereof; the date of referendum election, if
any; the number of votes cast for and against the question containing
the Charter amendment, whether in the legislative body or in a referen-
dum and effective date of the charter amendment.

APPROVED: March 20, 1969                     PASSED: March 20, 1969

John A. Derr, Mayor                                       John A. Derr, President

Board of Aldermen

Resolution No. 1-70

A Resolution to propose an amendment to Article IX, Section 130,
(6) and enacting a new Section 137-A, to provide for retirement
of personnel upon reaching sixty-five years of age.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED by
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Frederick, that the
Charter of the City of Frederick, as the same was enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, in Chapter 539 of the laws of 1951, and as amended
by a Resolution of the City of Frederick on March 7, 1957, be amended
in Article IX, Section 130, (6), as follows:

ARTICLE IX. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION.
Section 130. Classified and Unclassified Service.

(6) Persons employed for seasonal work, to perform emergency
work, [or] employed in a temporary capacity [.] or sixty-five years of
age, or over.