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and license shall be guilty of a felony MISDEMEANOR and be fined
not less than $3,000 nor more than $5,000 and may be imprisoned
not more than six (6) months.

159E.

The provisions in Sections 159, 159A, 159B, 159C and 159D shall
be applicable to DORCHESTER, SOMERSET, WICOMICO, WOR-
CESTER, CHARLES, GARRETT, Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen
Anne's and Talbot counties only.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 31, 1972.

CHAPTER 671
(Senate Bill 380)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 27-2,
27-4 and 27-5 (b) of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Election Code," and sub-
title "Absentee Voting," concerning absentee voting, removing
the requirements that applications for absentee ballots by ill and
disabled persons be accompanied by a medical certificate; and
removing the requirements that applications for emergency ab-
sentee ballots be accompanied by physician's or employer's cer-
tificates; and removing the requirement that an agent to deliver
an absentee ballot must be a registered voter or an employer,
supervisor, attorney or member of the voter's immediate family,
or that the affidavit of delivery must be under formal oath; and
providing that applications for emergency absentee ballots be
under penalty of perjury but without formal oath and that an
agent's affidavit must be under penalty of perjury but without

formal oath; and further providing that an agent to deliver an

absentee ballot can be any individual designated by the voter
who is at least eighteen (18) years of age; and removing the
form for physician's certificate.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 27-2, 27-4 and 27-5 (b) of Article 33 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Election
Code," and subtitle "Absentee Voting," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

27-2.

(a) Any qualified voter whose physical disability confines him to
a hospital or causes him to be confined to bed and prevents or will
prevent him from being present and personally voting at the polls
on any election day shall also be entitled to vote as an absentee
voter under this subtitle. Such voter shall make application for an
absentee ballot as provided in Section 27-4 of this article [and in
addition shall obtain a certificate from a duly licensed physician
of this State. The certificate shall state that the voter is mentally
competent to vote in elections in this State, and that because of