910                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 440

(1)  The commissioner of health of Baltimore City and the health officers of the
several counties shall file with the [board in their respective city or counties, as the
case may be,] STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS a
list of the names and residence addresses (if known) of all persons over eighteen
years of age reported deceased within the city or county since the date of the last
such report.

(2)  The clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City [and], the clerk of the
circuit court, AND THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT for each county
shall file with said STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION
LAWS [respective boards] the names and addresses, if known, of all persons
convicted in said respective courts of larceny or infamous crimes since the date of
the last such report. The [boards] STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF
ELECTION LAWS shall make similar arrangements with the clerk of the United
States District Court for the District of Maryland to receive lists of those
convicted of crimes in that court.

(3)  The clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Baltimore City and the clerk of
the circuit court for each county shall file with said [respective boards] STATE
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS the former and present
names of all female residents of said city or county, as the case may be, over the
age of eighteen years, whose names have been changed by marriage since the date
of the last such report.

(4)  The clerk of the Circuit Court and of the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore
City and the clerk of the circuit court for each county shall file with the
[respective boards] STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION
LAWS the former and present names and residence addresses (if known) of all
persons whose names have been changed by decree or order of court since the date
of the last such report.

(5)  Every agency or instrumentality of any county in the State or in the City of
Baltimore which acquires or condemns or razes or causes to be condemned or
razed any building used as a residence within the county or city shall promptly
report such fact and the location of such building to the board in the county or
city.

(b)  Changes of addresses. --The boards may also in their discretion make such
arrangements as seem practicable with the postal authorities in said city or
counties, respectively, and with the water department and public service companies
serving persons therein, to receive notices of changes in addresses of persons
receiving mail or using such services in said city or county. The boards are
authorized to pay a reasonable compensation for the necessary clerical service
involved.

(c)   Whenever the death, conviction of infamous crime, change of name by
marriage, change of name by decree, of any registered voter is reported as above
provided, the board OR THE STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF
ELECTION LAWS shall cause to be mailed to the address of such voter, as it
appears on the registration books or records, a notification that such death, or
conviction of infamous crime, or change of name by marriage, or change of name
by decree, has been reported to the board, and shall require the voter to show
cause within two weeks after the mailing of such notification why his registration
should not be cancelled. If no sufficient cause shall be shown, the registration of
such voter shall be cancelled by removing the registration cards or forms of said
voter from the original and duplicate files and placing them in a transfer file.
Whenever the board has actual knowledge of the death of any registered voter or
such death is established beyond a reasonable doubt and it files in its office a