Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1011

tion Code," subtitle "Nomination by Petition," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

7-1.

(e) Any paper which is to form a part of a certificate of can-
didacy shall be submitted to the board for the county or the City of
Baltimore in which the signers on the paper are alleged to reside.
The board shall give to anyone submitting any such paper or papers
a signed receipt stating that the paper or papers are on file with the
board. It shall be the duty of the several boards in the jurisdiction
in which the signers are alleged to be registered voters to verify the
number of legitimate signatures of persons who are registered voters.
On any petition, including an associated or included set of petitions,
submitted to the board, any question concerning the invalidity of
the signature of any person on the petition affects that signature
only and does not affect or impair any other portion of the petition
or petitions. Following the verification, a duly authorized employee
of the board shall endorse on each paper the number of signatures
verified by the employee and shall endorse and sign the paper. For
the purpose of the endorsement, each paper shall contain a blank
space for the endorsement. The papers shall be delivered to the
boards not later than 9:00 p.m. 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. All papers delivered to a
board pursuant to this subsection and required to be filed with the
[Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws
pursuant to Section 4A-2 shall, after verification and endorsement as
herein required, be mailed or delivered by the board to the [Secretary
of State] State Administrative Board of Elections Laws, [within
thirty (30) days after] on the Monday which is five weeks or thirty-
five days before the day on which the primary election should be held
under the primary election law. The [Secretary of State] State
Administrative Board of Election Laws shall determine the suffi-
ciency of the percentage of registered voters signing petitions in
those cases in which candidates file certificates of nomination or of
candidacy in [his] its office. In all other instances, such determina-
tion shall be made by the local boards.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 437
(House Bill 340)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2-6(d)
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Cumulative
Supplement), title "Election Code," subtitle "Election Boards and