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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Section 5. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the
Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton will hold a
public meeting in regards to the enactment of this
Resolution on June 5, 1974, at 8:00 P.M. in the Town Hall
of the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton,
Elkton, Maryland.

Section 6. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date
of adoption of this Resolution is April 17, 1974, and the
amendment to the Charter of the Town of Elkton by the
Mayor and Commissioners of Elkton hereby proposed by this
enactment shall become effective forty—five (45) days
after final enactment, unless a proper petition for a
referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law,
provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution
shall be posted in the Town Hall of Elkton until June 5
1974, and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that public notice of the
contents of this Resolution shall be published in the
"Cecil Whig," or "Cecil Democrat," a newspaper of general
circulation in the Town of Elkton, once in each of the
weeks of April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, 1974.

Section 7. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the
Mayor of the Town of Elkton be and he is hereby
specifically enjoined and instructed to carry out the
provisions of Section 6 hereof, and, as evidence of said
compliance, the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of
Elkton shall cause to be affixed to the minutes of this
meeting appropriate certificates of publication of the
newspaper in which the title of this Resolution shall
have been published and shall declare the charter
amendment hereby enacted to be effective by affixing his
signature hereto in the space provided on the effective
date hereof.

Section 8. AND 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 Mayor and the Commissioners of the Town
of Elkton shall send separately, by Registered Mail, to
the Secretary of the State of Maryland, and to the
Department of Legislative Reference, to the Clerk of the
Court for Cecil County, and to the Clerk or similar
official thereof with the Director of the Hall of
Records, the following information concerning the charter
amendment: (1) The complete text of Section 180A of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County (1953 Edition)
as hereby enacted; (2) The date of the referendum
election, if any, held with respect thereof; (3) The
number of votes cast for and against the question
containing the charter amendment, whether by the Mayor
and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton or in a
referendum; (4) The effective date of the charter
amendment; and, (5) A complete description of the