2194                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Section 22-23 of the
District Heights Charter shall read as follows:

(REGISTRATION) There shall be a registration day on the [first Monday in
April] LAST MONDAY IN MARCH in every year, of qualified persons not
registered to vote. If necessary for the performance of registration or the
convenience of the citizens of the City, the Commission may designate additional
days as registration days, HOWEVER, NO PERSON SHALL BE PERMITTED
TO REGISTER DURING THE LAST THIRTY DAYS IMMEDIATELY
PRECEDING THE REGULAR ELECTION DAY ON THE FIRST
MONDAY IN MAY IN EVERY YEAR. Registration shall be permanent
EXCEPT AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED and no person shall be allowed to
vote in the City elections unless he is registered. It shall be the duty of the Board
of Supervisors of Elections to keep the registration lists up to date by striking from
the lists persons known to have died or moved out of the City OR ANY PERSON
WHO HAS NOT VOTED WITHIN THE FIVE PRECEDING CALENDAR
YEARS. The Commission is hereby authorized and directed, by ordinance, to
adopt and enforce any provision necessary to establish and maintain a system of
permanent registration and to provide for a re-registration when necessary.

SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the date of the adoption of
this Resolution shall be the 1st day of December 1972 and the amendment to the
Charter shall become effective on the 20th day of January 1973, unless a proper
petition for a referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law, provided a
complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the
bulletin board in the District Heights Municipal Center until the 19th day of
January, 1973 and provided further that a copy of the Title and a summary of this
Resolution of a complete copy of this Resolution be published in the
Enquirer-Gazette or some other newspaper of general circulation throughout
Prince George's County, Maryland once in each of the four weeks beginning
December 10th, 1972, December 17th, 1972, December 24th, 1972 and December
31st, 1972.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is hereby
specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions hereof and as evidence of such
compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this meeting an
appropriate certificate of publication of the newspaper in which the Title and
summary of this Resolution or a complete copy of this Resolution is published and
shall declare the amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing his
signature hereto in the space provided for that purpose.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as the
amendment to the Charter hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein
provided or by referendum, the Mayor shall send separately and by registered
mail, to the Secretary of State and the Department of Legislative Reference of
Maryland, (1) a certified copy of the text of this Resolution as hereby enacted, (2)
the date of the referendum, if any, (3) the number of votes cast for or against the
Charter amendment either in the legislative body or in a referendum, and (4) the
effective date if the Charter is amended.

RESOLVED this 1st day of December, 1972, at a regular meeting of the
Mayor and Commission of the City of District Heights, Prince George's County,
Maryland.

/s/ E. Michael Roll
E. MICHAEL ROLL, MAYOR