3599
CUMBERLAND

of Cumberland (1966 Edition, as amended), being Article
1A of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, by
repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Section 12
thereof, setting forth qualifications and terms of office
of Mayor and Councilmen."

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL OF CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, That Section 12 of the
Charter of the City of Cumberland, (1966 Edition, as
amended), be and is hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

The Mayor shall not be less than [thirty]
TWENTY—FIVE years of age, and each of the said four
Councilmen shall not be less than [twenty—five]
TWENTY—ONE years of age at the time of their election;
they shall each of them be citizens of the United States
and for five years immediately preceding their election
residents of the City of Cumberland. The Mayor and
Councilmen shall, upon taking the prescribed oath of
office before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany
County, hold office for a period of four years from the
first Monday in July next succeeding their election and
until their successors have been duly elected and
qualified. The Mayor shall serve as President of the
City Council.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the
date of the passage of this Resolution is April 3, 1973,
and the amendment to the Charter of the City of
Cumberland, hereby enacted, shall become effective on May
23, 1973, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon shall be filed as provided by Section 13 of
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and
provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution
shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street
entrance of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until
May 13, 1973, and provided further that a fair summary of
the proposed amendment shall be published in the
Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of
the weeks of April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 1973.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the
Mayor of the City of Cumberland is hereby specifically
directed to carry out the provisions of Section 2 hereof,
regarding the giving of notice by posting and publication
of this Resolution approving the same, and, as evidence
of said compliance, the City Clerk shall cause to be
affixed hereto a certificate of publication of the
newspaper in which the summary of this Resolution shall