56.

(a)   Certificates of candidacy shall be received and filed in the
appropriate office not later than nine p.m. [midnight] on the Monday
which is ten weeks or seventy days before the day on which the
primary election should be held under the primary election law. If
this date should occur on a legal holiday, the certificates must be
received and filed not later than nine p.m. on the next regular busi-
ness day which is not a legal holiday.

(b)   In Baltimore City [in years of] municipal elections, [all]
certificates of candidacy [must] shall be received and filed in the
office of the Board of Supervisors of Elections [and payments made
by all candidates for nomination] not later than [midnight] nine
p.m. [of the day] on the Wednesday which is ten weeks or seventy
days [prior to] before the day on which the primary election
[should] shall be held under the primary election law. If this date
should occur on [December 24 or December 31] a holiday, the
[nominations] certificates must be received and filed not later than
nine p.m. on the next regular business day which is not a legal
holiday.

(c)   In case of any vacancy which may exist in respect to any
office or delegates to convention, by reason of there being no candi-
date of a political party to file for the same in any such primary
election, such vacancy shall be filled [by the State Central Commit-
tee, or governing body, of the political party for the State for any
officer elected by the voters of more than one county or Baltimore
City; in all other instances the vacancy shall be filled by the State
Central Committee of the political subdivision.] as follows:

(1) For any officer elected by the voters of one county, the vacancy

shall be filled by the State central committee for that county.

(2) For any officer elected by the voters of one legislative district

in Baltimore City, the vacancy shall be filled by the State central

committee of such legislative district.

(3) For any officer elected by all of the voters of Baltimore City,

such vacancy shall be filled by the State central committee for Balti-

more City.

(4) In all other instances, the vacancy shall be filled by the State
central committee of the political party for the State.

The certificates of nomination shall be filed by said committee [s,
or governing body,] with the Secretary of State or the board of
supervisors of elections, as the case may be, not later than the
Monday which is fifteen days before the day on which the primary
should be held under the primary election law.

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challenge is substantiated by affirmative proof. In the absence of
such proof, the presumption shall be that the voter as to whom the
application or challenge was made is properly registered. If the board
is satisfied that the person so challenged, omitted or dropped from
the registration lists has actually moved to another precinct and is
presently residing within that other precinct, the board may transfer
that person to the registration list of the precinct in which he pre-
sently resides.