Marvin Mandel, Governor                         617

A DEFENDANT CONVICTED AND SENTENCED BY THE DIS-
TRICT COURT SITTING IN A COUNTY OR IN BALTIMORE
CITY, RESPECTIVELY.

Section 32. And be it further enacted, That Sections 3-10(c),
7-1(c), 9-1(a), and 12-2(a) of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title
"Election Code," subtitles "Registration of Voters—How and by
Whom Conducted," "Nomination by Petition," "Vacancies in Nomi-
nations—In General," and "Presidential Primaries and Conventions,"
respectively, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

§ 3-10. Appointment of registrars; powers and duties.

(c) Process.—They shall have the power to issue any summons to
the sheriff of any county or Baltimore City or to any [Constable or]
police officer thereof; and such process shall be served by said officers
in the same manner as if issued by a court of record having juris-
diction of the subject matter [or by a justice of the peace exercising
police powers within such respective jurisdiction,]; the said officers
serving any of said process to receive the same fees as in other State
cases.

§ 7-1. General provisions.

(c) Form of petition; affidavit.—The signatures shall not be ap-
pended to one paper but shall be on separate papers, bearing one or
more signatures and being no more than 8˝ inches in width or 14
inches in length. Such paper shall not contain the names of persons
residing in more than one county or in any county and in the City
of Baltimore. Each signer shall append to his signature his resi-
dence, and the name of the county or city where he is registered as a
voter, and immediately below the signature of any signer there shall
be either printed or typed the name of the signer. Every paper shall
be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a [justice
of the peace,] notary public, or other officer authorized to take oaths
under the laws of this State, by one or more persons known per-
sonally to the [justice,] notary public or other officer, and so certified
by him and signed by the affiants, to the effect that the signers are
known to such affiant or affiants to be registered voters of the county
or city as set forth in the petition, and that the affiant or affiants per-
sonally saw the signers, in regard to whom he or they make oaths,
sign the paper.

§ 9-1. Nomination declined.

(a) Primary election.—(1) Whenever any person who has filed
a certificate of candidacy for nomination in any primary election
shall, in a writing signed by him, and acknowledged before a [justice
of the peace or] notary public, notify the officer or board with whom
the certificate of candidacy is required to be filed by this article, at
least forty-five (45) days before the said primary that he desires to
withdraw as a candidate for such nomination, the certificate of candi-
didacy shall thereupon be and become void; and the name of any per-
son so withdrawing shall not be printed upon the ballots to be used
at the primary election. The filing of a valid certificate of withdrawal