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Session Laws, 1933 Session
Volume 421, Page 819   View pdf image (33K)
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 819

tion. The Town Clerk shall preside at said meet-
ing; a secretary shall be chosen who is a legal voter
in the town and he shall keep a record of the proceedings
of said meeting and file the same in the office of the Town
Clerk.

Candidates for Mayor shall be not less than thirty years
of age and candidates for Councilmen not less than twenty-
five years of age; they shall have resided in the town at
least one year immediately preceding their nomination and
be legal voters and property holders therein. Nomina-
tions of candidates for Mayor and Councilmen shall be
made on motion of any citizen who is a qualified voter in
the town and if such nomination is seconded by at least
two additional qualified voters, and not otherwise, the per-
son so nominated shall be considered a candidate and his
name shall be placed upon the official ballot.

It shall be unlawful and shall be deemed a corrupt prac-
tice for any person, association, organization, committee
or corporation to publish or distribute or cause to be pub-
lished or distributed any pamphlet, circular, card, dodger,
poster, advertisement or any printed, multigraphed, photo-
graphed, typewritten or written matter or statement or
any matter or statement which may be copied by any de-
vice or method now known for printing or copying or which
may hereafter be used for making copies of printed or
written matter in any form whatever for publication or
distribution, relating to or concerning any candidate or
prospective candidate for Mayor of the Town of Takoma
Park or Councilman of the said town, unless such pam-
phlet, circular, card, dodger, poster, advertisement or other
form of publication herein described contains the name or
names of the person or persons, association, committee or
corporation responsible for the publication or distribution
of the same, and if an association, committee or corpora-
tion is responsible for the publication, or distribution of
the same, there shall be attached the names of the officers
of such association, committee or corporation. Any person
violating any provision of this paragraph, or aiding and
abetting the violation thereof, shall, upon conviction, be
fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100. 00), nor more
than one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00), or be imprisoned
for not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.
And this paragraph shall be enforced by warrant or in-
dictment before the circuit court of the county in which the
offense occurs, and the provisions of Section 967 of Article
16 and the provisions of Section 960 of Article 17 shall not
apply to the enforcement of this paragraph.

 

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