MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               2413

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 1-402

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1-402 of Article - Courts and
Judicial Proceedings, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1973 Volume) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
1-402. Composition of Court.

(a)    Number; Chief Judge,

The Court of Special Appeals consists of [ten]
TWELVE judges, one of whoa shall be designated by the
Governor as Chief Judge.

(b)    Selection; Terms.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
judges of the Court of Special Appeals shall be selected,
appointed, retained, removed from office, or retired as
provided in Article IV of the Constitution with respect
to judges of the Court of Appeals. One judge of the
Court of special Appeals shall be a resident respectively
of each of the appellate judicial circuits defined in
Article IV, §14 of the Constitution, except that two
judges shall be residents of the Sixth Appellate Judicial
Circuit. When election to judicial office is required by
the Constitution, each of these judges shall be elected
by the qualified voters of his circuit of residence.
[Three] THE REMAINING judges of the Court of Special
Appeals say be residents of any part of the State and,
when election to judicial office is required by the
Constitution, shall be elected by the qualified voters of
the entire State. The term of a judge of the Court of
Special Appeals begins on the date of his qualification
for office.

SECTION 2. AMD BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1974.

Approved Hay 31, 1974.