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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 723

first occurs; and

(3)   If a cash balance exists or if any unpaid
bills or deficits remain to be paid as of the end of the
period for which the report or statement in subsection
(a) (2) above is filed, sixty (60) days after the

election; and

(4)   If a cash balance exists or if any unpaid
bills or deficits remain to be paid as of the end of the
period for which the report or statement in subsection
(a) (3) above is filed, six months after the election;
and

(5)   If a cash balance exists or if any unpaid
bills or deficits remain to be paid as of the end of the
period for which the report or statement in subsection
(a) (4) above is filed, one year after the election; and

(6)   If a cash balance exists or if any unpaid
bills or deficits remain to be paid as of the end of the
period for which the report or statement in subsection
(a) (5) above or any subsequent report or statement is
filed, annually on the anniversary of the election until
no cash balance, unpaid bill, or deficit remains.

26-16.

(a) The following persons shall be guilty of
prohibited practices and shall be punished in accordance
with the provisions of this section:

(7)  Campaign Literature. Every person who
publishes or distributes or causes to be published or
distributed any pamphlet, circular, card, dodger, poster,
advertisement or any printed, multigraphed, photographed,
typewritten or written matter or statement or any matter
or statement which may be copied by any device or method
now known for printing or copying or which may hereafter
be used for making copies of printed or written matter in
any form whatever for publication or distribution,
relating to or concerning any candidate or prospective
candidate for public or party office or for the
acceptance or defeat of any proposition unless such
pamphlet, circular, card, dodger, poster, advertisement
or other form of publication herein described DOES NOT
PROMOTE THE WRITE-IN CANDIDACY OF ANY PERSON AND
contains, but set apart therefrom, an authority line
which shall include the name and address of the person,
treasurer or political agent responsible for the
publication or distribution of the same, except that if
the person, treasurer or political agent has furnished
his address to the appropriate board the literature need
not contain an address.