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(2) Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said Court (other than in
an original term or other than upon expiration of a 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 candidate shall
file a certificate of candidacy with the Supervisors of Elections of
Baltimore City not later than midnight 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 Municipal Court
created herein shall be placed in the voting machines 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 ap-
pointed 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 originally of the
jurisdiction vested on the day immediately preceding the first Mon-
day of May, 1961, in the Justices of the Peace of Baltimore City,
including the Police Magistrates, the Chief Police Magistrate of
Baltimore City, the Magistrates-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 assign-
ment of a particular judge or judges exclusively 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 the
Judges thereof as a body may be exercised by a majority of the
Judges thereof. Said Court shall not be a Court of Record.
(d) There shall be a Chief Clerk of said Court who shall be
appointed by said Court and who shall perform such duties as may
be prescribed from time to time by said Court or by law by the
General Assembly. He shall be paid such compensation from such
sources as the General Assembly shall prescribe from time to time
by law. There shall be such deputy and assistant clerks, clerical, pro-
bationary, stenographic and other employees as may be prescribed
from time to time by the General Assembly by law and such law
shall prescribe the method of selection, amount and manner of com-
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