GAITHERSBURG

4705

REFERENCE TO ORDINANCES FOLLOWING ADOPTION BY
THE COUNCIL.

BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of
Gaithersburg, in public meeting assembled, that Section
11(b) of the Charter is amended to read as follows:

(b) Each ordinance [passed] ADOPTED by the Council
shall WITHIN THREE DAYS AFTER ADOPTION, be delivered
[within three days] by the City Manager to the Mayor for
his approval or veto. If the Mayor approves any
ordinance, he may sign it. If he vetoes any ordinance,
he shall deliver to each member of the Council, within
seven days after delivery of such ordinance to him, a
statement of his reason for the veto of the ordinance.
If the Mayor shall neither approve an ordinance nor veto
it within the time required herein, said ordinance shall
be deemed to have been approved BY THE MAYOR on the
seventh day following delivery of said ordinance to the
Mayor. An ordinance vetoed by the Mayor shall not become
effective unless subsequently passed by a favorable vote
of four[-fifths of the council] COUNCILMEN WITHIN
thirty—five days after the date of delivery of such
statement of disapproval. No further hearings shall be
required with reference to such ordinance.

Adopted by the City Council of Gaithersburg this
18th day of March, 1974.

ORDINANCE NO. CA-8-74

REPEALING SECTION 17 OF THE CITY CHARTER.

BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of
Gaithersburg, in public meeting assembled, that Section
17 of the Charter is hereby repealed.

[17. The Mayor with the approval of a majority of
the Council, shall appoint the City Attorney and the
members of the Planning Commission, the Board of Appeals
and the Supervisors of Elections.]

Adopted by the City Council of Gaithersburg this
18th day of March, 1974.