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(f)  Organizational meeting. If the Petition for the Formation of
a Political Party is properly drawn and filed, as in this section pro-
vided, then, within ninety days after the filing of the petition and
appended papers, the persons designated in the petition as consti-
tuting the governing body of the party shall hold an organizational
meeting and shall adopt for the conduct of the affairs of the party
an interim constitution and bylaws, which shall be filed with the
State Administrative Board of Election Laws within thirty days
after adoption. Any amendments to the interim constitution and
bylaws shall likewise be filed with the State Administrative Board
of Election Laws within thirty days after adoption. The said organ-
izational meeting shall be convened by the person designated in the
petition as the State Chairman of the party, who shall preside as
president pro tern of the meeting until such time as party officers
are elected.

(g)  Interim constitution and bylaws. The interim constitution and
bylaws shall provide for such meetings as in the opinion of the
governing body of the new political party shall be necessary for the
proper conduct of party affairs, and shall specifically provide for
the selection of a State central committee for the party, the selection
of party central committees for the several counties and Baltimore
City, and for the selection of chairmen for the State and local party
central committees, in the numbers required in Section 11-2 (b) of
this article. The interim constitution and bylaws shall also provide
for the manner of calling all meetings and for advance notification
thereof; for rules governing the conduct of all meetings, including
the attendance required for a quorum; for a procedure for selecting
party nominees for public office, subject to the provisions of this
article; and for the manner and method of amending the interim
constitution and bylaws of the political party. The interim consti-
tution and bylaws shall also provide that no meeting of the political
party or the governing body of the political party shall be called
unless ten days written notice thereof shall be given, by regular
mail, to each person entitled under the interim constitution and
bylaws to attend, addressed to the residence of such person as dis-
closed by the records of the board of the county or Baltimore City
in which such person is a voter. In the event that it is necessary
to call a meeting to fill a vacancy in a party nomination for public
or party office, it shall be sufficient if seventy-two hours FIVE DAYS
notice shall be given in a manner to be provided by the interim
constitution and bylaws.

(h) Nomination by petition. Unless the party is required to select
its nominees for public office by primary election pursuant to Section
5-1 of this article, the nominees for public office of the party shall
be selected in the manner provided in the interim constitution and
bylaws of the party, but no such nominee shall appear upon the
ballot at any general election unless the nominee has complied with
all the requirements of the provisions of the subtitle "Nomination
by Petition" of this article, including the filing of petitions with the
election board or the several boards of the State, which shall bear
IN ADDITION TO THE NAME OF THE NOMINEE, the name
of the party, signed by not less than three percent (3%) OR
FOUR THOUSAND (4,000), WHICHEVER IS GREATER, of the
registered voters who are eligible to vote for the office for which
election at the general election is sought. If a nominee of a party
has filed a valid petition for nomination in compliance with all