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then, in addition to (1) and (2) above, he shall
have resided in the district for as long as it has
been established.
A person is eligible to serve as a Senator, if he
has attained the age of twenty-five years, or as a
Delegate, if he has attained the age of twenty-one
years, on the date of his election.
SEC. 10. No member of Congress, or person
holding an", civil, or military office under the
United States, shall be eligible as a Senator, or
Delegate; and if any person shall after his election
as Senator, or Delegate, be elected to Congress,
or be appointed to any office, civil, or military,
under the Government of the United States, his
acceptance thereof, shall vacate his seat.
SEC. 11.** No person holding any civil office
of profit, or trust, under this State shall be eligi-
ble as Senator or Delegate.
SEC. 12. No Collector, Receiver, or Holder of
public money shall be eligible as Senator or Dele-
gate, or to any office of profit, or trust, under
this State, until he shall have accounted for, and
paid into the Treasury all suiiiii on the books
thereof, charged to, and due by him.
SEC. 13." (a) In case of death, disqualifica-
tion, resignation, refusal to act, expulsion, or re-
moval from the county or city for which he shall
have been elected, of any person who shall have
been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in case
of a tie between two or more such qualified
persons, the Governor shall appoint a person to
fill such vacancy from a person whose name shall
be submitted to him in writing, within thirty days
after the occurrence of the vacancy, by the Cen-
tral Committee of the political party with which
the Delegate or Senator, so vacating, had been af-
filiated in the County or District from which he
or she was elected, provided that the appointee
shall be of the same political party as the person
whose office is to be filled; and it shall be the
duty of the Governor to make said appointment
within fifteen days after the submission thereof to
him. If a name is not submitted by the Central
Committee within thirty days after the occurrence
of the vacancy, the Governor within another peri-
od of fifteen days shall appoint a person, who
shall be of the same political party as the person
whose office is to be filled, and who is otherwise
properly qualified to hold the office of Delegate
" Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified No-
vember 7,1978.
•" Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified No-
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or Senator in the District or County. In the event
there is no Central Committee in the County or
District from which said vacancy is to be filled,
the Governor shall within fifteen days after the
occurrence of such vacancy appoint a person who
is otherwise properly qualified to hold the office
of Delegate or Senator in such District or Coun-
ty. In every case when any person is so appointed
by the Governor, his appointment shall be
deemed to be for the unexpired term of the per-
son whose office has become vacant.
(b) In addition, and in submitting a name to
the Governor to fill a vacancy in a legislative or
delegate district, as the case may be, in any of the
twenty-three counties of Maryland, the Central
Committee or committees shall follow these
provisions:
(1) If the vacancy occurs in a district having
the same boundaries as a county, the Central
Committee of the county shall submit the name
of a resident of the district.
(2) If the vacancy occurs in a district which
has boundaries comprising a portion of one
county, the Central Committee of that county
shall submit the name of a resident of the dis-
trict.
(3) If the vacancy occurs in a district which
has boundaries comprising a portion or all of
two or more counties, the Central Committee
of each county involved shall have one vote for
submitting the name of a resident of the dis-
trict; and if there is a tie vote between or
among the Central Committees, the list of
names there proposed shall be submitted to the
Governor, and he shall make the appointment
from the list.
SEC. 14/" The General Assembly shall meet
on the second Wednesday of January, nineteen
hundred and seventy-one, and on the same day in
every year thereafter, and at no other time, unless
convened by Proclamation of the Governor. A
Proclamation convening the General Assembly in
extraordinary session must be issued by the Gov-
ernor if a majority of the members elected to the
Senate and a majority of the members elected to
the House of Delegates join in a petition to the
Governor requesting that he convene the General
Assembly in extraordinary session, and the Gov-
ernor shall convene the General Assembly on the
date specified in the petition. This section does
not affect the Governor's power to convene the
General Assembly in extraordinary session pursu-
ant to Section 16 of Article 11 of this Constitu-
tion.
*' Thus amended by Chapter 576, Acts of 1970, ratified No-
vember 3,1970.