2228                               Municipal Charters

to mail such notice to the address of said voter and his registration may-
be forthwith cancelled as hereinafter provided. If no cause or insufficient
cause shall be shown, the registration of such voter shall be cancelled by
removing the registration cards or looseleaf pages of said voter from the
original files and placing the same in a transfer file, along with said sworn
statement where used.

[(h)] (k) Same; failure to vote. If a registered voter in said city
has not voted at least once at a general or special election within the five
preceding calendar years, it shall be the duty of the Board of Election
Supervisors to cause the registration of such voter to be cancelled by re-
moving the registration cards or looseleaf pages of said voter from the
original files and placing the same in a transfer file; a notice of such action
and the reason therefor shall be sent to the last known address of
such voter; provided, however, that the registration of no person shall be
so cancelled during his service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

[(i)] (l) Reregistration after cancellation. A voter whose regis-
tration has been cancelled under any of the preceding sections shall not
thereafter be eligible to vote except by lawfully registering again.

[(j)] (m) Extra registration places. In case of the designation of
more than one polling place as hereinbefore provided, then and in that
event, the members of the Board of Election Supervisors appointed
for each polling place shall sit separately as Boards of Registration at
places to be designated by the Mayor and City Council and registration
books shall be kept for each polling place separately and any action taken
with respect to any name on said registration books, or to any person de-
siring to be registered as hereinbefore provided, shall be taken by the
Board of Registration for that particular polling place, and in all other
respects of the provisions of this subsection shall be in force as to
each of said places of registration.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the adoption of the
Resolution is 8th of November, 1971 and that the Amendment to the
Charter of the City of Laurel, hereby proposed by this enactment, shall be
and become effective on the 28th day of December, 1971, unless a proper
petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law. A com-
plete and exact copy of the Resolution shall be posted in the City Office
until the 18th day of December, 1971, and a copy of the title of this Reso-
lution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City
of Laurel not less than four times at weekly intervals before the 20th day
of December, 1971.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as the Charter
Amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein pro-
vided or following a referendum, the Mayor of the City of Laurel shall send
separately by registered mail, to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, to
the Department of Legislative Reference, Hall of Records Commission and
State Library, the following information concerning the Charter Amend-
ment:

1.   The complete text of this Resolution.

2.   The date of the referendum election, if any, held with respect
thereto;

3.   The number of votes cast for and against the question contained
in the Charter Amendment, whether by the Council of the City of Laurel
or in a referendum; and