Ch. 91                                MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  151

8-402.

(b)(4) The provisions of § 8-402(b) shall apply to all cases of tenancies from
year to year, tenancies by the month and by the week. In case of tenancies from
year to year (INCLUDING TOBACCO FARM TENANCIES), a notice in
writing shall be given three months before the expiration of the current year of the
tenancy, [[ [ ]] except that in case of ALL OTHER farm tenancies, the notice shall
be given six months before the expiration of the current year of the tenancy; [[ ] ]]
and in monthly or weekly tenancies, a notice in writing of one month or one week,
as the case may be, shall be so given; and the same proceeding shall apply, so far
as may be, to cases of forcible entry and detainer. This subsection (4), so far as it
relates to notices, shall not apply in Baltimore City. Nothing contained in the laws
relating to landlord and tenant contracts shall be construed as preventing the
parties, by agreement in writing, from substituting a longer or shorter notice to
quit than heretofore required or to waive all such notice, provided the property to
which such contract pertains is located in any special taxing area, or incorporated
town of Montgomery County.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 91
(Senate Bill 605)

AN ACT to to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3-5 of Article 33 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1971 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Election Code," subtitle "Registration of Voters-General
Provisions," to provide that any otherwise qualified voter having attained his
seventeenth birthday may register to vote if he will be eighteen years of age on
or before the next succeeding general or special election.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 3-5 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, (1971 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Election
Code," subtitle "Registration of Voters—General Provisions," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

3-5.

Any person HAVING REACHED HIS SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY, who

will be eighteen years of age on or before the day of [any] THE NEXT
SUCCEEDING general or special election shall be entitled to vote at such general
or special election, and shall also be entitled to vote, at the primary election
preceding such general or special election, if otherwise entitled to be registered as a
qualified voter. Any such person shall be entitled to register to vote at any time
provided for registration of voters [during such election year].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preservation
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.