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is hereby authorized and directed to adopt by ordinance, and the Mayor
shall enforce, any provisions necessary to establish and maintain a system
of permanent registration, and to provide for re-registration when nec-
essary.

ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW CAR-
ROLLTON THIS sixth day of October, 1971.

William C. Rawlinson, Jr., Chairman of the Council

Date: October 6, 1971
ATTEST:

Earl C. Klinger, Administrative Officer

APPROVED: Jordan L. Harding, Mayor
Date: October 7, 1971

New Carrollton Charter Amendment No. 71-11

A Resolution to adopt an amendment to the Charter of
New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland (Section 9 of Ar-
ticle 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, Everstine's
1963 Edition, as amended, and registered pursuant to Article 23A,
Section 11, et. seq., of the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957, as
amended), amending Section 4 of said Charter, entitled "Qualifica-
tions of Officers" to remove the requirement that the Mayor, the Coun-
cilmen and the Treasurer own real property within the City to qualify
for office.

WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of New Carrollton currently
contains a provision that the Mayor, the Councilmen and the Treasurer
must be a freeholder, owning real property within the corporate limits
of the City of an assessed value of at least eight hundred dollars; and

WHEREAS, at a duly-advertised public hearing conducted by the
City Council on September 15, 1971, the citizens in attendance expressed
the unanimous desire that said "freeholder provision" be removed as a
qualification to hold public office in the City; and

WHEREAS, the City Council agrees that the "freeholder provision"
should not be used as a qualification for public office,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of New Carrollton that Section 4 of the Charter of the City of New
Carrollton, entitled "QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS," be amended
as follows:

SECTION 4. QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS.

Each elective officer of the City, and the Treasurer appointed by the
Mayor [shall be a freeholder, or the spouse of a freeholder, owning real
estate within the corporate limits of the City of an assessed value of at
least Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) either individually or with his or
her spouse,] shall have attained the age of at least twenty-five years,
must be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the City of New
Carrollton, and must be a registered voter of said State and of said City.
Each such officer shall retain throughout his respective term of office all