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[Art. 4, Sec. 41C] MARYLAND MANUAL 653
term), for any cause, the Governor shall appoint to said
Court a Judge who shall hold office under such appointment
until the thirty-first day of December immediately following
the first Congressional election occurring at least one year
after the date of his appointment.
(3) In order to qualify for election or re-election a can-
didate shall file a certificate of candidacy with the Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore City not later than mid-
night of the day which is ten weeks or seventy days prior
to the day on which the primary election should be held.
(4) The names of all candidates for judge of the Muni-
cipal Court created herein shall be placed in the voting ma-
chines without any party label or other distinguishing
mark or location which might directly or indirectly indicate
the party affiliation of any such candidate.
(5) When a vacancy shall exist in the Chief Judgeship
of said Court, the Governor may designate an Associate
Judge of said Court as Chief Judge, and such appointee
as Chief Judge shall continue as such for the residue of the
term for which he was originally appointed or subsequently
elected an Associate Judge of said Court; or the Governor
may designate as Chief Judge the person appointed to fill
the vacancy on said Court under sub-section (b) (2) herein.
(c) The jurisdiction of said Court shall consist original-
ly of the jurisdiction vested on the day immediately pre-
ceding the first Monday of May, 1961, in the Justices of the
Peace of Baltimore City, including the Police Magistrates,
the Chief Police Magistrate of Baltimore City, the Magis-
trates-at-Large of Baltimore City, and the Traffic Court of
Baltimore City, and thereafter shall consist of such greater
or lesser jurisdiction (which may be made exclusive as to
any class or classes of cases), with such right of appeal
therefrom, as the General Assembly shall prescribe from
time to time by law. The Chief Judge and the Associate
Judges thereof shall have such powers and duties as the
General Assembly shall prescribe from time to time by law.
The Judges of said Court shall have full power to regulate
by rules the administration, procedure and practice of said
Court, including, but not limited to, the creation of divisions
of said Court to hear exclusively any class or classes of cases
and the assignment of a particular judge or judges exclus-
ively to such divisions and the vesting of administrative
duties in the Chief Judge; such rules shall have the force
of law until rescinded or modified by said judges or the
General Assembly. Unless otherwise provided by law, all
powers granted by this section or by law to said Court or

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