Title
Acting Mayor Designation - For the purpose of amending the procedure for designating an Acting Mayor.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Charter Amendment 1-18
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee
A CHARTER AMENDMENT Resolution concerning
Acting Mayor Designation
FOR the purpose of amending the procedure for designating an Acting Mayor.
BY repealing and reenacting the following portion of the City Charter:
Article V, Section 3.
SECTION I: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Charter of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
Article V MAYOR
Sec. 3. - Acting mayor.
The mayor shall may, during his temporary disability or absence from the City, designate in writing an alderman to serve as acting mayor and to perform the duties of the office during the mayor's absence from the city for longer than one (1) day or during the mayor's temporary disability. In the event that the mayor is temporarily disabled or absent from the City and fails to designate an acting mayor as above provided, the City Manager shall serve as acting mayor until such time as If the mayor is disabled or absent from the city and has failed to designate an acting mayor, the city council, at the call of any member, may meets and, by a majority vote, designates an alderman to serve as acting mayor. An acting mayor has the same rights, duties, powers and obligations as the mayor.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that a notice of public hearing was published on the proposed charter amendment, at least 21 days in advance of the public hearing that was held on Sunday, September 16, 2018.
SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the date of adoption of this Resolution is November 19, 2018, and the amendments of the Charter of the City of Annapolis, hereby enacted shall become effective on January 10, 2019, unless a proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law within 40 days of adoption, provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board in the City Hall until December 31, 2018, and provided further that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in "The 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 on, December 10, 2018, December 17, 2018, December 24, 2018, and December 31, 2018.
SECTION IV: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Mayor is hereby specifically commanded to carry out the provisions of Section II hereof, and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be maintained appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper or newspapers in which the title of the Resolution shall have been published and if a favorable referendum is held on the Charter change, shall declare the Charter change hereby enacted to be effective on January 10, 2018, by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided on the effective date of change.
SECTION V: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that as soon as the Charter Amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as provided herein or following a referendum, the Mayor shall send to the Maryland Department of Legislative Services a copy of this Resolution showing the number of Aldermen and Alderwomen voting for and against it and a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment hereby enacted at any referendum thereon and the date of such referendum.
The above Charter Amendment was enacted by the foregoing Resolution which was passed at a Meeting of the Annapolis City Council on November 19, 2018; 6 voting in the affirmative, 3 voting in the negative, 0 abstaining and 0 absent and the said Resolution becomes effective in accordance with law on the 10th day of January, 2019.
EXPLANATION
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