2,068                                  Municipal Charters

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Commissioners of the Town
of Bel Air that subsection (a) of Section 105 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Harford County, being part of the Code of the Town of Bel Air
and of the Town Charter, be and the same are hereby amended to read
as follows:

105. Commissioners; election, term, quorum, meetings.

(a) Voters. Every person who has resided within the corporate
limits of the Town of Bel Air for eighteen (18) months next preceding
any town election held on or after the first Monday of December, 1968,
who is above the age of [twenty-one (21) years] eighteen (18) years,
who is a duly registered voter on the registration books of the Supervisors
of Elections of Harford County, and who is registered in accordance with
the provisions of this Charter, shall be a qualified voter of the town; pro-
vided further, that any person who is a duly qualified voter of the Town
on the 12th day of August, 1968, shall not be disqualified from voting at
the Town election held on the first Monday of December, 1968, solely be-
cause such person will not have resided within the corporate limits of the
Town for eighteen (18) months next preceding the said election held on
the first Monday of December, 1968. Every qualified voter of the town shall
be entitled to vote at any or all town elections.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Commis-
sioners of the Town of Bel Air that the date of adoption of this Resolution
is the 11th day of October, 1971, and the amendment of the Charter of
the Town of Bel Air hereby enacted shall become effective on the 30th day
of November, 1971, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum hereon shall
be filed as permitted by law, provided, that a complete and exact copy of
this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board at the
Town Office until the 20th day of November, 1971; and provided further
that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in a newspaper
of general circulation in the Town of Bel Air, once in each of the four
successive weeks hereafter.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chairman
of the Commissioners is hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the pro-
visions of Section 2 hereof, and as evidence of such compliance, the said
Chairman shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this meeting appro-
priate certificates of publication of the newspaper or newspapers in which
the title of this Resolution shall have been published, and shall declare the
Charter amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing his signature
hereto in the space provided on the effective date of such amendment.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, as soon as the
Charter amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein
provided or, in due course of law following a referendum, said Chairman
shall send separately by registered mail to the Secretary of State of Mary-
land and to the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a clear
certified copy of the text of the Section of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Harford County, as revised by the amendment hereby enacted, and a
certified copy of this Resolution showing the number of Commissioners
voting for and against it, and a report on the votes cast for or against the
amendment hereby enacted at any Referendum thereon and the date of
such Referendum.

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The above Charter amendment was proposed and enacted by the
foregoing Resolution which was passed at a regular meeting of the Com-