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AN ACT concerning

Amendment of Section 307A, Charter of Prince George's County

For the purpose of proposing an amendment to Section 307A of the Charter of Prince George's County concerning the application of term limitations to Council members and eligibility of Council members and providing a precedence clause in the event of conflicting charter amendments ratified by the voters at the November 2004 general election.

BY proposing an amendment to:

Section 307A,

Charter of Prince George's County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED by the County Council of Prince George's County, Maryland, that the following amendment to Section 307A of the Charter of Prince George's County, Maryland, is hereby proposed:

Section 307A. Term Limitation.

No person shall be eligible to serve more than two consecutive terms on the County Council. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two consecutive terms as County Executive. This Section shall apply to all persons who are currently serving on the County Council or as County Executive on the effective date of this Section and to all persons elected thereafter. In the event that a charter amendment adding two at-large Council members is ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of the County at the general election in November, 2004, then no Council member who has been elected to two consecutive terms of office, either as an at-large member or as a district member, or both, shall be eligible to be elected to a third consecutive term on the Council. If, at the general election in November 2, 2004, the qualified voters of the County shall not ratify an amendment to this Charter adding two at-large Council member positions, then this amendment shall be automatically abrogated and of no effect and shall be deleted from the text of the Charter.

SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that a copy of this Act be transmitted to the County Executive for publication and that a copy also be transmitted to the Board of Supervisors of Elections for submission of the proposed amendment to the voters of this County at the 2004 General Election pursuant to Section 1105 of the Charter.

SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that the question of adoption of this proposed Charter Amendment shall be submitted to the voters of the County at the General Election occurring on November 2, 2004, and shall be placed on the ballot in the following form:

PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT

To provide that members of the County Council may not be elected to more than two consecutive terms; and to provide a precedence clause in the event of conflicting charter amendments ratified by the voters at the November 2004 general election.

SECTION 4. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that in the event that no petition for Charter Amendment or for referendum hereafter meets all requirements of law and, therefore, is not placed on the November 2004 ballot, then this Charter Amendment shall not appear on the local ballot.

Adopted this 30th day of July, 2004, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the full County Council.

COUNTY COUNCIL OF PRINCE

GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND

BY: _________________________________

Tony Knotts

Chairman

ATTEST:

______________________________

Redis C. Floyd

Clerk of the Council

KEY:

Underscoring indicates language added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate language deleted from existing law.

Asterisks *** indicate intervening existing Code provisions that remain unchanged.

SUBJECT TO REFERENDUM ON 11/2/2004

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