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Election Officials - Board of Supervisors, Judges, Clerks, by the exclusion of the
words and figures "February, 1962" and "February" and the substitution in lieu
thereof the words and figures "December, 1973" and "December."

Charter Amendment No. 3rd of 1971

A RESOLUTION of the City of Laurel adopted pursuant to the provisions of
Article 23A, Sections 11 through 18, titled Corporations - Municipal, subtitled
Charter Amendments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement
Volume) to amend the Charter of the City of Laurel, Section 49-23 entitled
Registration by the repeal of subsection (a) thereof entitled Procedure, the
substitution in lieu thereof four new subsections to be known as (a), (b), (c) and (d)
and to redesignate subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j) to (e), (f),
(g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (1) and (m) respectively.

Note: There was no referendum election on any of the above cited Charter
Amendments.

RESOLUTION NO. 1st - 1971

A RESOLUTION of the City of Laurel Adopted Pursuant to the provisions of
Article 23A, Sections 11 through 18, titled Corporations - Municipal, subtitled
Charter Amendments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement
Volume) to amend the Charter of the City of Laurel, Section 49-12(a) entitled
"Elections - General Provisions - Voters; Qualifications," by the exclusion of the
words "twenty-one" and the the substitution therefor of the word "eighteen."

THEREFORE: be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
Laurel, Maryland, that Section 49-12(a) entitled "Elections - General Provisions -
Voters; Qualifications," be amended by the exclusion of the words "twenty-one"
and the substitution therefor of the word "eighteen," to read as follows:

Elections

49-12 General Provisions.

(a) Voters; qualifications. All citizens of the United States above the age of
[twenty-one] EIGHTEEN years who shall have actually resided in the said Town
of Laurel not less than one year preceding an election for Mayor and City
Councilmen of said town, and whose names shall appear upon the books of
registered voters as hereinafter provided, shall be qualified voters of said town, and
as such shall be entitled to vote at any election held under the provisions of this
sub-title.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the adoption of the Resolution is
June 28, 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 17th day
of August, 1971, unless a proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as
permitted by law. A complete and exact copy of the Resolution shall be posted in
the City Office until the 7th day of August, 1971, and a copy of the title of this
Resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of
Laurel not less than four times at weekly intervals before the 14th day of June,