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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Laws Applicable. Except as hereinafter otherwise
provided, all of the provisions of the Constitution of
Maryland, all the laws of the State of Maryland
applicable to the Town of Capitol Heights, which are now
in force or may hereinafter be enacted, and all of the
existing ordinances of the Town of Capitol Heights,
except as hereinafter provided, shall be and the same are
hereby extended and made applicable to such portion of
Prince George's County as is, under the provisions of
this section annexed to and made a part of the said Town
of Capitol Heights, Nothing herein, or elsewhere in this
section, shall affect the power of the Mayor and Common
Council of Capitol Heights to amend or repeal any
ordinance existing at the date of the passage of this
section, or to enact and ordain any ordinance which, at
the date of the passage of this section, or hereafter, it
may be authorized to enact and ordain.

Jurisdiction of Town. All inhabitants of the
territory annexed to the Town of Capitol Heights by this
section, shall, in all respects and to all intents and
purposes, be subject to the powers, jurisdiction and
authority vested, or to be vested by law, in the Mayor
and Common Council of Capitol Heights, and to all the
ordinances now in force in said Town, or which may
hereinafter be enacted and ordained by it, so far as the
same may be consistent with the provisions of this
section, and the territory so annexed shall, in all
respects be taken and considered as part of the municipal
corporation of the Mayor and Common Council of Capitol
Heights.

Taxes. No real estate taxes or otherwise will be
levied against said property concerned in these
proceedings until such time as the Town shall provide
municipal services to said area as designated
hereinbefore.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Mayor and Common
Council of the Town of Capitol Heights that the date of
adoption of this Resolution is the 8 day of April, 1974,
and the Amendment of the Charter of the Town of Capitol
Heights hereby enacted shall become effective on the
fiftieth day after its passage, 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
Town Hall for at least forty—five (45) days after its
passage, and provided further that a copy of the title of
this Resolution shall be published in a newspaper of
general circulation in Prince George's County once in
each of the four (4) successive weeks thereafter.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is hereby