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title "Certificates of Nomination", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 69 thereof, and to read as follows:

69 A.

(a) No person who has been defeated for the nomination for any
office in a primary election, except a candidate for the office of
judge, and except as provided in subsection (b) below, shall have
his name printed on the ballot at the succeeding general election as a
candidate for the same ANY office for the nomination to which he
was a candidate in the primary election.

(b) If a vacancy occurs in the party nomination for OF which he
was a candidate in the primary election, his name may be printed on
the ballot for the general election as a candidate of that party if he
has been duly made such party nominee after the A vacancy occurs in
the manner provided by this Article.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1964.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 43
(Senate Bill 21)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 31 of
Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Lunatics and Insane", subtitle "Department of Mental Hy-
giene", to provide for the commitment to mental hospitals of alco-
holics on the certification of two physicians that the person is an
alcoholic and needs care and treatment, and relating to such com-
mitments.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 31 of Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Lunatics and Insane", subtitle "Department of
Mental Hygiene", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

31.

No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in any
institution, public, corporate or private, or almshouse or other place
for the care and custody of the insane, idiotic or the alcoholic except
upon the written certificates of two qualified physicians of the State
of Maryland made within one week after separate examination by
them of said alleged lunatic or alcoholic and setting forth the insanity
[or] , idiocy or alcoholism of such person and the reason for such
opinion. No certificate shall be of force which shall be presented for
the commitment of any patient more than thirty days after date of
examination. The form of physician's certificate shall be substan-
tially as follows: