HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a) As used in this article the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated unless a contrary meaning is clearly
intended from the context in which the term appears:

(12) "Partisan organization" means any combination of
two or more persons formed for the purpose of assisting the
promotion of the success or defeat of any candidate, political
party, principle or proposition to be submitted to a vote at any
election.

(14) "Political committee" means any combination of

two or more persons appointed by a candidate or any other person

or formed in any other manner which assists or attempts to assist

in any manner the promotion of the success or defeat of any

candidate, candidates, political party, principle on proposition

submitted to a vote at any election.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986 is declared to be an emergency measure
and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health
and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1986.

CHAPTER 53

(House Bill 457)

AN ACT concerning

Duck Blinds - Back River

FOR the purpose of adding to existing prohibitions on the
erection, maintenance, or licensing of duck blinds in
certain waters of the State a prohibition on these
activities in a certain portion of the Back River.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 10-619

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: