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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 394

(House Bill 579)

AN ACT concerning

Election Code — Treasurer

FOR the purpose of providing [[that the resignation of a
candidate's treasurer is not effective, nor may any
disbursement be made, until a new treasurer is
appointed and filed]] for the resignation of a
candidate's treasurer and the treasurers of certain
political organizations; requiring a candidate who
joins a [[ticket or]] slate to notify the proper
election board of the date on which he joined;
requiring the candidate and others to file certain
reports in a certain manner; and making style
changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 26-3 (a) and (e) and 26-4(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 26-3 (a) and (e) and 26-4(a) of
Article 33 - Election Code, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

26-3.

(a) (1) Each candidate for nomination for, or
election to, public or party office, upon or before, and
as a condition precedent to qualifying as [such] A
candidate, shall appoint one campaign treasurer and shall
file the name and address of the campaign treasurer with
the board or with the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws as provided in subsection (c) of this
section. Every treasurer so appointed shall accept
[such] THE appointment, in writing, prior to [filing
thereof.] THE FILING OF HIS NAME AS TREASURER. The board
or the State Administrative Board of Election Laws