THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 629

113-20. Nominations for Office—Generally.

a. No person shall be a candidate for any public office
in the government of the [Town] City of Rockville unless
such person shall be nominated [either by a primary elec-
tion held as hereinafter provided for or] by petition in
conformity with the requirements herein.

b. A candidate for a public office in the government of
the [Town] City of Rockville shall be deemed to have been
nominated by petition when he, or someone in his behalf,
shall file, at least ten days prior to the time for holding
the election at which he desires to be voted on, with the
clerk of the Mayor and Council of Rockville, a certificate
signed by at least [twenty] fifty qualified voters containing
the name of the candidate, [a statement of his political
affiliation, ] a statement of the office which he seeks, and a
statement that the persons signing the same intend to vote
for the person named therein for the office named therein.
[A candidate for a public office in the government of the
Town of Rockville shall be deemed to have been nominated
by primary election when he, or someone in his behalf, shall
file, at least ten days prior to the time for holding the
election at which he desires to be voted on, with the clerk
of the Mayor and Council of Rockville a certificate signed
by the judges or a majority of the judges of the primary
election containing the name of the candidate, a statement
of his political affiliation and a statement of the office
which he seeks, and that he has been duly elected a candi-
date for said office. ]

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved April 6, 1953.

CHAPTER 332
(House Bill 412)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
38 (1) of Article 87 of the Annotated Code of Maryland

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