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thereon and the date of such referendum.

The above Charter Amendment was enacted by the
foregoing Resolution which was passed at a regular
meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, February 11, 1974, the Mayor and eight (8)
Aldermen voting in the affirmative, no Aldermen voting in
the negative, no Aldermen abstaining, no Aldermen absent,
and the said Resolution becomes effective in accordance
with law on the 2nd day of April, 1974.

RESOLUTION

OF THE

MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE

CITY OF ANNAPOLIS

TO REPEAL AMD RE-ENACT

SECTION 26 - OF THE CITY CHARTER

Resolution of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, adopted pursuant to the authority of Article
11E of the Constitution of the State of Maryland and
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1973
Replacement Volume), titled "Corporations—Municipal", to
repeal and re—enact Section 26 of the Charter of the City
of Annapolis for the purpose of providing that the police
chief shall have control over the police department;
promotions; reductions in rank and dismissals; political
affiliations and religious beliefs of members;
probationary police officers, and all matters relating
generally.

SECTION I: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that Section 26 of the Charter
of the City of Annapolis be and the same is hereby
repealed and re—enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 26. Control over police department;
promotions, reductions in rank and dismissals;
political affiliations and religious beliefs
of members; probationary police officers.

The police [commissioner] CHIEF shall have and
exercise full control and dominion over the police
of said city, having the power to make such rules
and regulations governing them as he, from time to
time, may prescribe, and to [remove,] reprimand,
[or] suspend, PROMOTE, DEMOTE OR DISMISS IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE CIVIL SERVICE STATUTES OF THE