MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             697

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 41-1(a) of Article 33 - Election
Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

4A-1.

(a) Each person seeking nomination to any public or
party office at a primary election, shall file a
certificate of candidacy for nomination in the manner and
at the time provided in this subtitle. Such person who
is a candidate for any State, local, or party office must
be a registered voter of the particular county or
district in which he seeks to be nominated. A candidate
for any federal. State, local or party office shall be
affiliated with the party whose NOMINATION OR office he
seeks. Before finally placing the name of such a
candidate on the ballot at the succeeding primary
election, the board shall determine that the candidate
meets the registration and affiliation requirements of
this section. The requirements of this section shall
not apply to the party affiliation of any candidate for
judicial office for which candidates are permitted to be
listed on the ballot without party designation; but the
requirements shall be applicable to the filling of any
vacancy in any public or party office.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved March 25, 1975.

CHAPTER 53
(House Bill 86)

AN ACT concerning

Voter Registration

FOR the purpose of providing that any person residing in
an apartment list the apartment number as well as