[HISTORY: Adopted at referendum 11-5-2002. Amendments noted where applicable.]
PREAMBLE
We the citizens of Dorchester County, Maryland, a body corporate
and politic, under the Constitution and general laws of the State
of Maryland, in order to establish a more dynamic, efficient, and
responsive form of county government, which shall be empowered by
us to exercise greater local authority to govern and be manifest in
its scope to all, do adopt, ordain, and establish as our instrument
of government this Charter of Dorchester County, Maryland.