MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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p.m. on the Monday which is ten weeks or seventy days
before the day on which the primary election should be
held under the primary election law. Certificates of
candidacy for an office to be filled by a special
election pursuant to § 22—1 (b) of this article, shall be
received and filed in the office of the appropriate board
not later than nine p.m. on the Monday which is three
weeks or twenty—one days before the day on which the
special primary election is to be held under the
Governor's proclamation setting the date for the special
primary election. If the filing date should occur on a
legal holiday, the certificates must be received and
filed not later than nine p.m. on the next regular
business day which is not a legal holiday.

26-4.

(a) Every State central committee, partisan
organization, or political committee, as defined in § 1—1
(a) (12), [and] 1-1 (a) (14) AND 4D-1 (A) of this article,
except political clubs shall appoint and constantly
maintain a chairman and a treasurer, whose names and
residence addresses, together with the names and
residence addresses of its other principal officers,
shall be filed as follows: if the committee or
organization actions are limited to local candidates,
principles, or propositions of a county or Baltimore
City, then with the board of that county or Baltimore
City; if the committee or organization actions pertain to
candidates, principles, or propositions submitted to the
voters of more than one county or Baltimore City, then
with the State Administrative Board of Election Laws.
The chairman, treasurer and other principal officers
shall all be registered voters of the State of Maryland.
The treasurer shall receive, keep and disburse all sums
of money, or other valuable things, which may be
collected, received or disbursed by the committee or
organization or by any of its members for any purposes
for which the committee or organization exists or acts.
Unless the chairman, treasurer and other officers are
appointed and filed as required in this subsection, it
shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for a
State central committee, partisan organization or
political committee, or any of its members, to collect or
receive or disburse money, or other valuable things, for
such purposes. A chairman or treasurer of a committee or
organization who resigns shall do so in a writing signed
by him and filed with the board or with the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws where the original
appointment was filed. A new appointment must be made
and filed forthwith in accordance with this section. The
treasurer shall report contributions and expenditures on
the form prescribed in accordance with § 26—12 of this
article and in the manner required by subsection (b) of