2186                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Gerald T. Warwick, Jr.
Passed:

October 4, 1971

Emory Dobson

J. Bradford Horsey

Richard T. Warfield
Commissioners of Denton

RESOLUTION NO. 205

Resolution of the Commissioners of Denton, Adopted pursuant to the authority
of Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland and Section 13 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition as amended) Title "Corporations-Municipal," to
amend the Charter of the Commissioners of Denton by repealing and re-enacting
Section 53 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (Everstine's Code of
Public Local Laws of Caroline County, 1965 Edition) to change the voters
qualifications; providing for the registration of voters; election of commissioners;
tenure and vacancies, in town elections in the Town of Denton.

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Commissioners of Denton that the
Charter of said municipal corporation be and the same is hereby amended by
repealing Section 53 of the Code of Public Laws of Maryland (Everstine's Code of
Public Local Laws of Caroline County) and re-enacting said Section 53 as follows:

Section 53 - Commissioners.

(a) Election; qualifications; tenure; vacancies. The government of said body
corporate shall be vested in and exercised and enforced by a Board of five
commissioners who shall be elected as hereinafter provided; provided however, that
the present Commissioners of Denton shall each be and remain members of said
Board, or be and remain Commissioners of Denton for the duration of their
present terms of office for which they have already been elected, in the same
manner and to the same extent as though this subtitle had not been passed. The
said commissioners shall be persons eligible to vote at said election, at least
twenty-five years of age, and payers of taxes in said town on assessed valuation of
at least One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) of property, including property held as
tenants by the entireties. Each commissioner during the whole term for which he is
elected shall be possessed of all qualifications rendering him eligible to be elected,
and if any commissioner, during the time for which he was elected, shall fail to
retain all the qualifications necessary to render him eligible to election or shall
neglect or refuse to attend meetings of the commissioners for the space of three
months, he shall forfeit such office, and such forfeiture shall be declared by a
majority of the remaining commissioners, and the vacancy caused thereby shall be
immediately filled as other vacancies; and if said commissioners shall neglect or
refuse to declare such vacancy and to fill the same, then any tax paying inhabitant
of said municipality being a legal voter therein, may file a petition in the Circuit