3805

GREENBELT

Charter of the City of Greenbelt, said Charter being
Subtitle 40 of article 17 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1963 Edition as amended) and containing
in whole or in part the Charter of the City of Greenbelt,
Maryland, shall be amended by repealing and reenacting
with amendments Subsection 2 of Section 3, Title,
"General Powers" to read as follows:

2.

To furnish any or all public services; to own or
dispose of stock in, purchase, hire, construct, own,
maintain and operate or lease public utilities or public
utility services; to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of
public utilities or public utility services; to acquire
by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise, real,
personal, or mixed property necessary for any such
purpose; subject to restrictions imposed by laws of the
State of Maryland; and to grant local public utility
franchises, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO FRANCHISES TO
OPERATE COMMUNITY ANTENNA OR CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS,
which may be deemed advantageous and beneficial to the
city.

SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of
the adoption of the Resolution is November 19, 1973 and
that the amendment to the Charter of the City of
Greenbelt, hereby proposed by its enactment, shall be and
become effective on January 8, 1974, unless a proper
petition for a 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
December 29, 1973, and a copy of the title of this
Resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Greenbelt not less than four
(4) times at weekly intervals before December 29, 1973.

SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as
the Charter amendment hereby enacted shall become
effective, either as herein provided or following a
referendum, the City Manager shall send separately, by
registered mail to the Secretary of the State of Maryland
and the Department of Legislative Reference, the
following information concerning the Charter amendment:
(1) the complete text of this Resolution; (2) the date of
the referendum election, if any, held with respect
thereto; (3) the number of votes cast for and against the
question contained in the Charter amendment, whether by
the Council of the City of Greenbelt or in a referendum;
and (4) the effective date of the Charter amendment.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City
Manager of the City of Greenbelt be, and he is
specifically enjoined and instructed to carry out the