MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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Term of Office

FOR the purpose of changing the term of office for the
Prince George's County Board of Education.

BY adding to

Article 77 — Public Education

Section 36C(4)(iv)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 36C(4)(iv) be and it is hereby
added to Article 77 — Public Education, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1974
Supplement) to read as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education

36C.

(4) The Prince George's County Board of Education
is elected as follows:

(i) A special primary election shall be held
on September 11, 1973 and a special election shall be
held on November 6, 1973. Those members elected in the
1973 special elections take office on December 3, 1973.

(ii) Members of the board shall serve for a
term of six years except that those members from
districts 1, 4, and 7 who are elected for the first time
at the November 6th 1973 election will serve until the
first Monday in December 1976 and may seek reelection in
1976 for a six year term; and those members from
districts 2, 5, and 8 who are elected for the first time
at the November 6th 1973 election will serve until the
first Monday in December, 1978, and may seek reelection
in 1978 for a six year term. Those members from
districts 3, 6, and 9 who are elected at the November 6th
197 3 election will serve until the first Monday in
December, 1980, and may seek reelection in 1980 for a six
year term.

(iii) One—third of the board members shall be
elected every second year. Beginning in 1976 the primary
election for members of the Board of Education shall be
held on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in
September except in presidential election years it shall
be held on the third Tuesday in May.