MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
Approved April 30, 1974.

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CHAPTER 334

(Senate Bill 446)

AN ACT concerning

Fair Election Practices — Appointment of Chairman
and Treasurer by Committees, etc.

FOR the purpose of requiring State central committees,
partisan organizations and political committees to
appoint and maintain a chairman, and requiring the
filing of his name and address in certain designated
places; clarifying the language relating to the
determination of the designated places where the
names and addresses of the principal officers of
these committees and organizations are to be filed;
clarifying the requirement that all principal
officers of these committees and organizations be
registered voters; providing for the replacement, in
case of resignation, of the chairman or treasurer of
a committee or organization; and generally relating
to the provisions requiring the appointment of a
chairman and treasurer of State central committees,
partisan organizations and political committees.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 26-4(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 26-4(a) of Article 33 - Election
Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

26-4.

(a) Every State central committee, partisan
organization, or political committee, as defined in §
1-1(a)(12) and 1-1(a)(14) of this article, except
political clubs shall appoint and constantly maintain a