MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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void and the name of such candidate shall not be placed
on the ballot for such primary election. If the
withdrawal of any candidate reduces the nominees at large
to eight in those years when elections shall be held for
four members to the county Board of Education at large or
to six in those years when elections shall be held for
three members to the county Board of Education at large,
then the board of supervisors of elections shall certify
such remaining candidates as provided by subsection
(b) (1) of this section. No person shall be certified as
a candidate who is subject to the authority of the Board
of Education.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1974.

Approved May 31, 1974.

CHAPTER 792
(House Bill 1294)
AN ACT concerning

Public Education - Sovereign Immunity

FOP the purpose of restating in an affirmative manner
those provisions regarding the defense of sovereign
immunity as they apply to public education.

BY repealing

Article 77 — Public Education

Section 56B(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 77 - Public Education

Section 56B(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 56B(d) of Article 77 - Public
Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969