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640 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 20]
^ SEC. 20. A Court shall be held in each County of the State to be styled the Circuit Court for the County, in which it may be held. The said Circuit Courts shall have and exer- cise, in the respective counties, all the power, authority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which the present Cir- cuit Courts of this State now have and exercise, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law. The several judges of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on and after the Tuesday next after the first Mon- day in November, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, shall each, alternately and in rotation and on schedules to be established by the said judges, sit as an Orphan's (2) Court for said County, and shall have and exercise all the power, authority and jurisdiction which the present Orphans' Courts now have and exercise, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law. ' SEC. 21. From and after January 1, 1955, there shall be in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh circuits at least one judge for each county, who shall be a resident of the county in which he shall hold office, and who shall be elected by the voters thereof, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. The number of judges for any of the circuits or for any of the counties, may be increased or decreased by the General As- sembly from time to time, and any vacancy so created shall be filled as provided in Section 5 of this Article except that in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh judicial circuits there shall never be less than one judge for each county and in all of the circuits there shall never be less than four for each circuit. The senior judge in length of service shall be the chief judge of the circuit; the other judge or judges shall be associate judges. In the first and second judicial circuits no two of said judges of the Circuit Court shall at the time of their election or appointment, or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed, reside in any one county, except in Cecil County wherein two said judges may reside at one time provided that each of the other counties within the second judicial circuit shall have at least one judge resident therein. In the first and second judicial circuits, in case any candidate or candidates for judge at any election shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more judges than herein permitted to reside in any county i Thus amended by Chapter 744, Acts of 1968, ratified November 3, 1964, ^ Thus in the original. ' Thus amended by Chapter 372, Acts of 1966, ratified November 8, 1966. |
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