An amendment of a Municipal Charter may be initiated
by the Commission or by a petition of qualified voters of the town.
The Town Manager shall give notice by posting
and publication of any submission of a proposed Charter amendment
to the voters thereof. For not less than the four (4) weeks immediately
preceding the election at which the question is to be submitted, a
complete and exact copy of the wording of the proposed amendment or
amendments shall be posted at the town office or other main municipal
building or in a public place. On the day of the election, a similar
copy shall be posted at the place or places for voting. Notice of
the election, together with a fair summary of the proposed amendment
or amendments, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation
in the town, not less than once in each of the four (4) weeks immediately
preceding the election.
The exact text of any amendment or amendments
to the Charter, adopted as in this Article specified, shall thereafter
be included in any subsequent edition or codification of the Charter,
until altered, modified or repealed by a subsequent amendment or amendments
to the Charter.
The Commissioners of Delmar shall have the power
to make administrative or clerical changes in its Charter, ordinances,
resolutions and all other town documents as to form only, in no way
changing the substance thereof, to correct typographical, clerical
or other errors in form only, without the necessity of the formal
procedures normally required for Charter amendments, the enactment
of ordinances or resolutions or the passage or ratification of other
documents, and said changes may be made by motion properly made and
passed at a duly called meeting of the Commissioners, the adoption
of said motion to be duly recorded in the minutes of said meeting.