2226                               Municipal Charters

(b)   Time of registration, general. Qualified residents of the City of
Laurel may register to vote at the City Hall or such other location as may
be designated by the Mayor and City Council on such days and during
such hours as the City offices are normally open from January 1st through
the close of business on the Friday preceding the last Monday in February
in every even-numbered year. However, in 1972, the start of general regis-
tration shall be February 1, 1972.

(c)   Registration, special. The Supervisors of Elections, acting for
the Board of Registration, and after giving notice by publication in at
least one newspaper published in said city of not less than eight days before
the first day of registration, they shall attend at some place or places in
said city 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 between
the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M., for the purpose of making a sup-
plemental registration and revision, every even-numbered year beginning
with the year 1958.

(d)   Procedure. The Board of Registrations 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 Coun-
cil shall by ordinance or resolution prescribe the form of such card or
looseleaf page, provided that there shall be entered on such card or loose-
leaf page at least the name, age, color, sex, occupation, and actual place
of domicile in said city and the length of time thereof, of such persons
as may register; the person so registering and the officer so registering
Mm 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 city, 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 Registration, 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 regis-
tration book; said registration books shall be used on election days for all
general and special elections of said city, and all persons so registered
therein shall be entitled to vote in said city elections, and no person not
registered therein shall be entitled to vote at such elections.

[(b)] (e) Voters not qualified. If it shall be determined by the
Board of Registration that the applicant for registration is not a qualified
voter, the Board of Registration shall so indicate on said cards or looseleaf
pages, and shall not place such cards or looseleaf pages in said registration
books, or shall remove such cards or looseleaf pages from such registration
books if the same shall already have been placed therein. All such cards or
looseleaf pages not placed in or removed from said registration books shall
be retained for a period of one year open to public inspection.

[(c)] (f) Failure to vote for five years. In carrying out the provi-
sions hereof with respect to cancelling the registration of any voter who
has not voted at least once at a general or special election within the five
preceding calendar years, the Board of Election Supervisors shall remove
the cards or looseleaf pages of said voter from the registration books and
place the same in a transfer file.

[(d)] (g) Notice to persons disqualified. The members of said
Board of Registration shall at the close of the first day of such registration