HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Section 4A-3, 4D-1(c), and 7-l(b)(l), (c)(2) and (3)

(g) and (j)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 7-l(c)(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 7-2 and 7-3

Annotated Code of Maryland.

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

4A-3.

Except for certificates of candidacy filed by PETITION
OR write-in candidates and as otherwise provided herein,
certificates of candidacy shall be received and filed in the
office of the appropriate board not later than nine p.m. on
the Monday which is ten weeks or seventy days before the day
on which the primary election should be held under the
primary election law. Certificates of candidacy for an
office to be filled by a special election pursuant to §
22-1(b) of this article, shall be received and filed in the
office of the appropriate board not later than [nine] FIVE
p.m. on [the Monday which is three weeks or twenty-one days
before] the day [on which] the special primary election is
to be held under the Governor's proclamation setting the
date for the special primary election. If the filing date
should occur on a legal holiday, the certificates must be
received and filed not later than nine p.m. on the next
regular business day which is not a legal holiday.

4D-1.

(c) The certificate of candidacy for election of a
write-in candidate shall be filed no later than 7 days after
a total expenditure of $51 is made in his behalf by the
committee promoting his candidacy, but shall not be filed
after noon on the [fourth day] SECOND TUESDAY preceding the
day of the election for which filed.