2346                               Municipal Charters

48-23. Same; notice and hearing.

When the Mayor and Town Council shall have determined to make
sidewalk, curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvements, or any or all
of them, in any street in said town, they shall thereupon notify, as far as
practicable, each property owner upon said street proposed to be improved,
by depositing said notice in the United States Post Office addressed to
such owner's last known address, setting forth that on a certain day to
be named therein, the Mayor and Town Council will meet to determine the
character and kind of curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvement,
or any or all, to be laid, and notifying said owner to appear at said meeting,
and express his views upon the questions, if he so desires; at said meeting
the Mayor and Town Council shall hear any suggestions of said abutting
owners and immediately thereafter they shall determine the character
and kind of work to be done, which said determination shall be final and
conclusive as to the kind and character of the street improvement, [unless
a majority of the owners abutting the proposed improvements and charge-
able with the cost thereof shall in one week from said meeting, file with
the Mayor and Town Council a petition in writing signed by said majority
of owners asking for a different kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter and street
improvements, or any of them, in which event the Mayor and Town
Council shall forthwith adopt the sidewalk, curb, gutter or street improve-
ment, or all, in said petition requested, instead of the one theretofore
selected by them, and thereafter, as soon as practicable, begin, and with
all possible expedition complete, said proposed improvements.] If a ma-
jority of the owners abutting the proposed improvements, and chargeable
with the cost thereof, shall within [the time specified] ten (10) days
from the date of the aforesaid public meeting, file with the Mayor and
Town Council a petition in writing, signed by said majority of owners,
asking that the proposed improvements be made by contract, said improve-
ments shall be made by contract.

BE IT FURTHER, RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
any section or sections of the Charter of the Town of Landover Hills,
Maryland which are inconsistent with the above enacted section, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the aforegoing proposed amendment shall be posted in the Town Hall for
a period of at least forty (40) days following its adoption, and shall
further be published in the Prince George's Post once in each of four
successive weeks before the 29th day of September, 1969.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the proposed amendment will become and be considered a part of the
Municipal Charter of the Town of Landover Hills on the 9th day of October,
1969, unless a petition is filed pursuant to Article 23A, Section 13, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edition as amended, said petition to
be filed on or before the 29th day of September, 1969.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the aforegoing Resolution and Ordinance be and the same is hereby
adopted this 20th day of August, 1969.

Charles R. Kline, Mayor
ATTEST:
Frances A. Davidson, Town Clerk

Telford P. Falk
Anna A. Lex