2108                               Municipal Charters

of Cumberland, as enacted by Charter Amendment Resolution No. 29,
adopted December 18, 1967, be and is hereby repealed and re-enacted to
read as follows:

"(a) There is hereby created a municipal parking authority which
shall be known and designated as the 'Cumberland Municipal Parking
Authority,' which shall consist of seven (7) members, all of whom shall
be either residents of the City of Cumberland, or own real property
therein, six (6) of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor and City Council
and shall each serve for a term of [two (2) years] three years, or until
their successors are appointed, except that the members first appointed
shall be appointed for such terms so that the term of two members shall
expire annually thereafter, and said members shall serve without com-
pensation. The seventh member of said authority shall be the Chief of
the Cumberland Police Department, who shall serve a term coextensive
with his term as Chief of said department. Vacancies shall be filled by the
Mayor and City Council for the balance of the term. It shall be unlawful
for any member of said authority to enter into any contract with the
authority from which he will derive any financial benefit, or sell, lease
or broker for sale or lease to the City of Cumberland, any land or build-
ings to be used for off-street parking facilities."

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the date of
the passage of this Resolution is December 8, 1970, and the amendment
of the Charter of the City of Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become
effective on January 27, 1971, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon 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 on the North Centre Street
entrance of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until January 17, 1971,
and provided further that a fair summary of the proposed amendment
shall be published in the Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of
general circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of the weeks
of December 14, 21, 28, 1970; January 4, 11, 1971.

Section 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor
of the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically directed to carry out the
provisions of Section 2 hereof regarding the giving of notice by posting
and publication of this Resolution approving the same, and, as evidence
of said compliance, the City Clerk shall cause to be affixed to the Charter
Amendment Resolution a certificate of the publication of the newspaper
in which the summary of this Resolution shall have been published, and
the Mayor, if there is no Petition for a Referendum, shall declare the
Charter Amendment to be effective on the effective date herein provided
for, which is January 27, 1971, by affixing his signature hereto in the
space provided below the effective date hereof.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, if a proper
Petition for a Referendum on the Charter Amendment herein proposed
is filed, the Mayor and other proper officials of the City of Cumberland
shall comply with all the provisions set forth in Sections 13 to 17, both
inclusive, of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That as soon as
the Charter Amendment hereby made shall become effective, either as
herein provided or following a Referendum, the Mayor shall send sepa-
rately by Registered Mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, and
to the Department of Legislative Reference of Maryland, a complete cer-