MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

3301

AN ACT concerning

Elections — Local Central Committees

FOR the purpose of providing for [[apportionment]]
allocation of local central committee votes for
certain purposes in accordance with party rules; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 10-1, 11-1(a) and 11-2(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, that Sections 10-1, 11-1(a) and 11-2(b) of
Article 33 — Election Code, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

10-1.

Any party may elect and hold a party meeting or
convention. The meeting or convention shall be composed
of those persons, members of [such] THE party, who have
been elected as members of the [[State]] central
committees for [such] THE party in the several counties
and legislative districts of Baltimore City. Each

county or legislative district shall be entitled to [the
same number of votes in the meeting or convention as the
number of members which the county or legislative
district shall elect to the House of Delegates.] CAST THE
NUMBER OF VOTES AS PROVIDED [[FOR IN §11-2, SUBSECTION
(B) OF THIS ARTICLE]] BY PARTY RULES.

11-1.

(a) Each political party which is required to
nominate its candidates for public office by means of a
primary election, pursuant to the provisions of this
article, shall adopt a permanent constitution and bylaws.
The constitution and bylaws shall be adopted at a meeting
of the political party, to be convened by the then
chairman of the State central committee of the party, who
shall preside as president pro tem of the meeting until