2436                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Commissioners of Sharptown may buy, out of general funds, without
referring the matter to a referendum of the voters of Sharptown, from Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) to Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00)
and providing for the sale of property of a value of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) or more, only by competitive bidding.

SECTION I. BE IT RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE
COMMISSIONERS OF SHARPTOWN, MARYLAND, by virtue of the
authority granted in Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland, and Section 12
of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Corporations-Municipal" sub-title "Home Rule", that Section 477 of the Charter
of the Town of Sharptown be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

477. Property provisions. All the property, franchises and funds of every kind
belonging to or in possession of the Commissioners of Sharptown are vested
in this corporation; and the said corporation may receive in trust or
absolutely any gifts, devises or bequests made to it, and may hold, sell,
invest, re-invest, administer and otherwise deal with the properties or funds in
accordance with terms of any trust or the conditions of any gilt; and the
corporation may buy any property costing not more than Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars ($35,000) without first submitting the question of purchase
to the voters of Sharptown at a referendum thereon of which twenty days
notice shall be given in the manner provided for holding general elections in
the Town of Sharptown. Nor may the Commissioners sell any item of real
or personal property with an appraised value of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) or more, except by competitive bidding after first giving notice of
such sale by advertisement in a newspaper published in Wicomico County,
Maryland.

SECTION II. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND
ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF SHARPTOWN, MARYLAND,

that this Charter Amendment shall take effect fifty (50) days from the date of its
final passage.

RESOLUTION NO. 2 - 1972

A RESOLUTION to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 487 and 488 of
the Charter of the Town of Sharptown as contained in the Wicomico County
Code (1965 Edition), Section 487 relating to the procedure for enforcing the
payment of town taxes and charges, and Section 488 relating to the town tax
rate and the time of the annual levy thereof; both sections having been
superseded in whole or in part by statewide law, and the re-enactments serve
only to make them comply with the presently applicable state laws relating to
enforcement of tax payment by municipalities; and to the time of making the
annual levy of town taxes, and the time of delinquency after such levy.

SECTION I. BE IT RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE
COMMISSIONERS OF SHARPTOWN, MARYLAND, by virtue of the
authority granted in Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland, and Section 12
of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Title
"Corporation-Municipal" Sub-title "Home-Rule", that Sections 487 and 488 of
the Charter of the Town of Sharptown be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows: