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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 210

pursuant to § 22-1 (b) of this article to fill a vacancy in
the office of Representative in Congress, the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws shall certify to the
board of each county and of the City of Baltimore, within
which any of the voters may by law vote for candidates for
any office, the name, party affiliation and residence of
each person nominated for the office, as specified in the
certificates of nominations filed with the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws AND THE NAME AND
RESIDENCE OF EACH APPELLATE JUDGE AT AN ELECTION FOR HIS
CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE.

8-5.

(C) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE NAME OF AN
INCUMBENT JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS AND THE COURT OF
SPECIAL APPEALS SHALL BE PUBLISHED AND SHALL BE INCLUDED ON
THE BALLOT ONLY AT THE GENERAL ELECTION FOR HIS CONTINUANCE
IN OFFICE.

16-5.

(c) The titles of offices may be arranged
horizontally or vertically on the ballots, with the names of
candidates for an office arranged longitudinally under or
transversely opposite the title of his office. The titles
of offices shall be so arranged that: (1) there shall first
appear those titles of public offices for which the voters
of the entire State or of an entire congressional district
may vote as follows: President and Vice—President, Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General, U.S.
Senator, Representative; (2) there shall next appear the
titles of offices of the Senate and House of Delegates of
the General Assembly of Maryland; (3) there shall next
appear the titles of the offices of Mayor, president of the
city council, Comptroller and members of the City Council of
Baltimore City or county executive and county council or
county commissioners of the respective counties; (4) there
shall next appear the titles of candidates for judge [of the
Court of Appeals and the Court of Special Appeals of
Maryland,] of the circuit courts of the several counties[,]
and of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City AND QUESTIONS OF
CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE OF AN INCUMBENT JUDGE OF THE COURT OF
APPEALS AND THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS; (5) there shall
next appear, in the following order, the titles of offices
for which the voters of the respective counties or Baltimore
City may vote, including, but not limited to, the offices of
Treasurer, State's Attorney, clerk of the circuit court in
the several counties or clerks of the Superior Court,
Circuit Court No. 1, Circuit Court No. 2, Criminal Court,
Baltimore City Court and Court of Common Pleas in Baltimore
City, register of wills, judges of the orphans courts, and
sheriff; (6) the titles of party offices shall follow the
titles of public offices on all ballots.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)

of the Annotated Code of Maryland (as enacted by

Chapter_____ of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1978) be