District Heights                                  2117

Resolution No. 7

of the
Mayor and Commission

of the

City of District Heights, Maryland,
Amending Section 22-18(b) of the City Charter

TITLE: An amendment of the City Charter to provide that the
required age for qualified voters in City Elections shall be "eighteen"
(18) instead of "twenty-one" (21) as presently required.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMIS-
SION OF THE CITY OF DISTRICT HEIGHTS, pursuant to the authority
of Article 23, Section 12 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edi-
tion as amended, that Section 22-18(b) of the present Charter of the City
of District Heights as adopted January 20, 1962, be amended by deleting
therefrom the word "twenty-one" as the required age for voting in City
Elections, and substituting therefor the word "eighteen".

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Section 22-18 of the
District Heights City Charter shall read as follows:

"(VOTERS). Every person who (a) is a citizen of the United
States, (b) is at least [twenty-one] eighteen years of age, (c) has re-
sided within the corporate limits of the City for six months next preceding
any City election and, (d) is registered in accordance with the provisions
of the Charter, shall be a qualified voter of the City."

Section 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the adop-
tion of this Resolution shall be the 7th day of May, 1971, and the amend-
ment to the Charter hereby enacted shall become effective on the 27th
day of June, 1971, unless a proper petition for a referendum hereon shall
be filed as permitted by law, provided a complete and exact copy of this
Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board in the Dis-
trict Heights Municipal Center until the 26th day of June, 1971, and
provided further that a copy of the title and a summary of this Resolu-
tion or a complete copy of this Resolution be published in the Enquirer-
Gazette or other newspaper of such general circulation throughout
Prince George's County, Maryland, once in each of the weeks beginning
May 9, 1971, May 16, 1971, May 23, 1971, and May 30, 1971.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is
hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section 3 hereof,
and as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be affixed
to the minutes of this meeting an appropriate certificate of publication of
the newspaper in which the Title and Summary of this Resolution shall
be published, and shall declare the amendment hereby enacted to be
effective by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided for that
purpose.

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that as soon as the
amendment to the Charter hereby enacted shall become effective, either
as herein provided or following a referendum, the Mayor shall send sepa-
rately and by registered mail to the Secretary of State and to the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference of Maryland, (1) a certified copy of the
text of this Resolution as hereby enacted, (2) the date of the referen-
dum if any, (3) the number of votes cast for or against the Charter
Amendment either in the legislative body or in a referendum, and (4) the
effective date if the Charter is amended.