Laurel                                          2225

Resolution No. 3rd of 1971

A Resolution of the City of Laurel adopted pursuant to the provi-
sions of Article 23A, Sections 11 through 18, titled Corporations—
Municipal, subtitled Charter Amendments, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume) to amend the Charter of the
City of Laurel, Section 49-23 entitled Registration by the repeal of
subsection (a) thereof entitled Procedure, the substitution in lieu
thereof four new subsections to be known as (a), (b), (c) and (d)
and to redesignate subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i)
and (j) to (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (1) and (m), respectively.

THEREFORE: BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE
MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF LAUREL, MARYLAND, that Section
49-23 of the Charter of the City of Laurel, titled Registration, be amended
by the repeal of subsection (a) thereof entitled Procedure, the substitution
in lieu thereof four new subsections to be known as (a), (b), (c) and (d)
and to redesignate subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) and
(j) to (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (1) and (m), respectively, to
read as follows:

[(a) Procedure. The Board of Election Supervisors shall act as a
Board of Registration, and after giving notice by publication in at least
one newspaper published in said town of not less than eight days before
the first day of registration, they shall attend at some place or places in
said town to be selected by the Mayor and City Council and stated in said
notice, on the fourth Monday in February, between the hours of 8:00
A.M. and 7:00 P.M., and on the Tuesday after the following Monday be-
tween the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M., for the purpose of making
a supplemental registration and revision, every even-numbered year be-
ginning with the year 1958, and shall enter the names of such persons as
may register, in accordance with law, on cards or looseleaf pages, which
shall forthwith be placed in such registration books as shall be provided
by the Mayor and City Council; and the Mayor and City Council shall by
ordinance or resolution prescribe the form of such card or looseleaf page,
provided that there shall be entered on such card or looseleaf page at least
the name, age, color, sex, occupation, and actual place of domicile in said
town and the length of time thereof, of such persons as may register; the
person so registering and the officer so registering him or her shall sign
the registration card or looseleaf page; two identical registration cards or
looseleaf pages shall be prepared for each person registering, and there
shall be two separate registration books kept for each voting place in said
town, to be prepared and kept by said Election Supervisors at the office
of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, thus acting as a Board of Regis-
tration, and one card or looseleaf page of each registration shall be kept in
one of said registration books and the other card or looseleaf page of each
registration shall be kept in the other registration book; said registration
books shall be used on election days for all general and special elections of
said town, and all persons so registered therein shall be entitled to vote in
said town elections, and no person not registered therein shall be entitled
to vote at such elections.]

(a) Board of Registration. The Board of Registration shall consist of
the Board of Election Supervisors and such employees of the City of Lau-
rel as may be required to effect the registration of residents of Laurel. These
employees of the City of Laurel shall be designated by the Mayor and shall
be identified as Registrars with full authority to register as voters, quali-
fied residents of the City of Laurel in the same manner as the Board of
Election Supervisors.