2070                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

RESOLUTION OF THE
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE

CITY OF ANNAPOLIS
TO REPEAL AND RE-ENACT

SECTION 4 - OF THE CITY CHARTER

Resolution of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, adopted
pursuant to the authority of Article 11-E of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland and Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966
Replacement Volume), titled "Corporations-Municipal", to repeal and re-enact
Section 4 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis for the purpose of providing that
the residence requirement be reduced to two (2) years prior to the election for an
Alderman for any new ward created by annexation of territory by the City of
Annapolis, and all matters relating generally.

SECTION I: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF
THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that Section 4 of the Charter of the City of
Annapolis be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 4. Annexation of territory.

The procedure for the annexation of territory of the City of Annapolis shall be the
procedure prescribed by section 19 of Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Cumulative Supplement), or by any public general law of
Maryland, in force and effect at the time any such annexation is initiated,
amending, superseding or supplementing said section and enacted pursuant to
the authority of Article 11-E of the Constitution of Maryland. Whenever any
area is so annexed to the City of Annapolis, the mayor and aldermen of the
City of Annapolis shall thereupon be empowered to exercise in such area all
governmental and municipal powers vested in that body to the same extent and
in the same manner as such powers are then exercised in said city and, upon
such annexation becoming effective, all laws and ordinances then and thereafter
in effect with respect to the City of Annapolis, shall apply to the annexed
territory; provided, however, that, prior to any referendum on any such
annexation, the mayor and aldermen of the City of Annapolis, may adopt an
ordinance or ordinances making special provisions, not contrary to law, for
limited periods of time, not exceeding five years, with respect to the levy of
municipal taxes and assessments and the rendition of municipal services in any
such annexed area. The mayor and aldermen of the City of Annapolis may also
enter into appropriate agreements with any other political subdivision, agency or
department of the State of Maryland or of the United States for the transfer to
the city, with or without consideration, of any public property in the area or
areas to be annexed and for the assumption by the city of the payment of any
public indebtedness for which any such area or areas are primarily liable. Prior
to any such referendum, and upon condition that any such annexation shall be
approved, the mayor and aldermen of the City of Annapolis shall provide by
ordinance for the inclusion of the area or areas to be annexed in any of the
existing wards of the city or for the establishment of said area or areas as a new
ward or wards, or for the change in the lines of the existing wards so as to form
larger wards of the same number, in some or all of which the annexed area or
areas shall be a part or parts. Each new ward so formed shall be represented by
one alderman of the same status as. the present aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, who shall be elected at the same election at which the question of