856                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 392

(b) The day for holding primary elections for municipal offices in
Baltimore City shall be Thursday next ON THE SECOND TUESDAY
after the first Monday in September of the year in which the munici-
pal elections in the City of Baltimore are to be held.

5-3. Conduct.

(a)    Primary elections shall be held and conducted and deter-
mined in the manner and form provided by this Article for general
elections and subject to all regulations, requirements and provisions
as prescribed by this Article for general elections, insofar as the same
are or may be applicable to primary elections, except as may be
herein otherwise provided.

(b)    The ballots in such election shall be cast, counted and can-
vassed, and the result of the election announced and certified as now
provided in this article for general elections held hereunder.

(c)    Whenever only one candidate of any such political party for
such public office or position has so qualified to have his name so
placed upon the official primary election ballot at the expiration of
the time allowed, his name and the name of the position for which he
is a candidate shall be omitted from the said official ballot, so that the
official ballot of such political party shall contain only the names of
such candidates for positions, offices, or delegates where there are
qualified contestants for such positions.

(d)    There shall be no names of candidates written in at primary
elections.

NOMINATION BY PRIMARY MEETING

6-1. Primary meeting; defined and how called.

(a)    A primary meeting within the meaning of this Article is an
organized assemblage of delegates or voters, registered under this
Article as members of a particular party whose highest candidate at
any election held within two years next preceding the holding of such
meeting polled more than one percentum and less than ten percentum
of the entire vote cast in the State, county or other division or district
for which the nomination is made. Candidates of such a party for
public office may be nominated by a primary meeting as thus defined.

(b)    The primary meeting shall be called by the party chairman, if
one has been selected, and if not, by the party's candidate for the
highest State-wide office in the preceding general election, upon
thirty days' notice by publication in newspapers of circulation
deemed adequate to reach all of the party's members, the notice to be
reprinted twenty, ten and five days prior to the primary meeting.
The notice will designate the time, place and purpose of the meeting
and the agenda to be followed. The meeting will be conducted accord-
ing to Roberts Revised Rules of Order, unless the party shall have
previously adopted and filed with the Secretary of State a constitu-
tion and by-laws which comply substantially with Section 11-1 of this
Article.

NOMINATION BY PETITION
7-1. In general.

(a) A candidate for any public office who is neither a candidate
nor a registered member of a party whose nominee must be nominated