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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

CITY CODE PERTAINING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. [any
person guilty of any infraction or other violation
of such rules or regulations, and he shall have the
power to promote, reduce in rank, or dismiss any
police officer; provided, that in case of dismissal
or any case which in his judgment warrants
dismissal, except in the case of a probationary
officer, defined herein, the charges and
specifications in writing shall be drawn and served
on the police officer at least five days before
trial, and reserving the the said police officer the
right to be represented by counsel or attorney at
the said trial or hearing, and if in the judgment of
the said commissioner, the case warrants a
dismissal, he shall dismiss said officer.] The said
POLICE [commissioner] CHIEF shall not appoint,
promote, reduce in rank, or remove any police
officer from the said service for any political
affiliations or because of any religious belief or
for any other cause other than the fitness or
unfitness of such person for the position which he
occupies, both morally and physically.

All appointments by the police [commissioner] CHIEF
of the City of Annapolis, in said police department as
provided for in section 25 of this Charter shall be as
probationary police officers for a period of eighteen
months after said appointment and the probationary police
officer may be dismissed from the police department by
the police [commissioner] CHIEF, if said [commissioner]
CHIEF shall find him unsuited for the service to which
appointment was made. That when a police officer is on
probationary status, he may be dismissed without a
hearing by the police [commissioner] CHIEF and such
action shall not be subject to review or appeal.

SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that the date of
adoption of this Resolution is February 11, 1974, and the
amendment of the Charter of the City of Annapolis, hereby
enacted shall become effective on April 2, 1974, unless a
proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as
permitted by law, provided a complete and exact copy of
this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the
bulletin board in the City Hall until March 23, 1974, and
provided further that a copy of the title of this
Resolution shall be published in the "Evening Capital", a
newspaper of general circulation in the City of
Annapolis, or in any other newspaper of such general
circulation, once in each of the weeks, Feb. 19, Feb.
26, March 5, March 12, and March 19, 1974.

SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS that the