Ch. 318 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 318
(House Bill 413)

AN ACT concerning

Protestant Episcopal Church - Diocese of Easton

FOR the purpose of repealing residency requirements for the right of suffrage for the
election of, and election as, vestrymen in the Diocese of Easton for the Protestant
Episcopal Church under the "Vestry Act"; and altering certain requirements for
the right of suffrage for election of vestrymen in the Diocese of Easton for the
Protestant Episcopal Church under the "Vestry Act".

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 97 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1976
Section 299(a) and 301(a)(2)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Chapter 97 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1976
Section 299(c)(l), (2), and (3)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Chapter 97 of the Acts of 1976

299. Qualifications of voters.

(a) Persons entitled to vote for vestrymen.

Every [resident of this State] INDIVIDUAL, over 18 years of age, who shall have
been an enrolled member of the parish where he offers to vote for six months next
preceding the day of election, [and] who shall have shared in the work of the parish by
contributions, donations or personal services rendered at the request or with the
consent of the vestry, [or] AND who shall have complied with such other [financial]
requirements as the bylaws of the parish AND THE GENERAL AND DIOCESAN
CANONS may provide, shall have the right of suffrage for the election of vestrymen for
such parish.

(c) Enrollment.

(1) Of Bona Fide Resident Members. Every communicant and baptized
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, other than a transferee, having a bona fide
residence in any parish, may be enrolled, with his consent but not otherwise, as a
member of the parish in which he resides by the registrar of such parish, without formal
application.

(2) Of Transferred Members. Every communicant and baptized member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, removing from one parish to another, who desires to

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