Marvin Mandel, Governor                           751

suant to Section 3-9A(b) of this article 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] at the
succeeding primary election[s] conducted under the provisions of
this 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 such
candidate or candidates for election in Baltimore 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.

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(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 divi-
sion 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 statewide 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 Robert Revised Rules of Order, unless the party shall have
previously adopted and filed with the State Administrative Board
of Election Laws a constitution and bylaws which comply substan-
tially with Section 11-1 of this article.]

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(a)  A candidate for any public office who is [neither a candidate
nor a registered member of a party whose nominee must be nomi-
nated by primary election or whose nominee may be nominated by
primary meeting] registered as an Independent or who is a member
of or affiliated with a partisan organization which is not a political
party as defined in this article or who is not a member of a political
party whose nominees must be nominated by means of primary elec-
tions, may be nominated by petition, as in this section provided.
Nothing in this subsection applies to candidates or nominations in
Montgomery County for election to the county Board of Education.

(b)  A candidate for public office seeking nomination by petition
shall file a certificate of candidacy under the provisions of the sub-
title "Certificate of Candidacy" of this article with a sworn state-
ment attached that he has on file with the election board or the sev-
eral boards of the State petitions signed by not less than three per
centum (3%) OR FOUR THOUSAND (4,000), WHICHEVER IS