Marvin Mandel, Governor                            3

be held under the primary election law. Certificates of candidacy for
an office to be filled by a special election pursuant to Section 22-1 (b)
of this Article, shall be received and filed in the office of the appro-
priate board not later than nine p.m. on the Monday which is three
weeks or twenty-one days before the day on which the special
primary election is to be held under the Governor's proclamation
setting the date for the special primary election. If [this] the filing
date should occur on a legal holiday, the certificates must be received
and filed not later than nine p.m. on the next regular business day
which is not a legal holiday.

5-1.

Any political party which at the general election next preceding
any primary or special primary election to be held hereunder, shall
have polled ten per centum or more of the entire vote cast in the
State shall nominate (1) all its candidates for public office; and (2)
all members of the State and local central committees in said political
party by means of primary or special primary elections conducted
under the provisions of the subtitle; and shall elect the appropriate
number of delegates to a national convention as provided in this
article. The several boards shall not print on the official ballot to be
voted at any general or special election to be hereafter held the
name or names of any candidate or candidates for election in Balti-
more City or any of the counties of the State of any of said parties
who shall not be so nominated and whose nomination shall not be
certified to them or to the State Administrative Board of Election
Laws as having been so nominated.

5-2.

(a) The primary elections by the political parties for candidates
for State offices and State central committee [;] shall be held
throughout this State on the second Tuesday after the first Monday
in September. The primary elections by the political parties in each
year in which a national convention is held for the nomination of
candidates for President and Vice-President shall be held through-
out this State on the third Tuesday in May. A special primary
election to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative in Congress
shall be held on such date as the Governor shall specify pursuant
to Section 22-1 (b) of this Article.

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 jurisdic-
tion 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 in-
cluded set of petitions, submitted to the board, any question con-
cerning 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