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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 89

for nomination to the county Board of Education at large
in those years when elections shall be held for three
members at large to the county Board of Education, who
receive the largest number of votes at said primary
election, shall be the duly nominated candidates for
election to the respective county Board of Education
offices. The board of canvassers for Montgomery County
shall, upon the completion of its canvass of voters at
said primary election, determine who are the duly
nominated candidates for election to the respective Board
of Education offices under the provisions of this section
and shall certify the same to the board of supervisors of
elections of Montgomery County. Any person who has
qualified under this section as a candidate for
nomination to the county Board of Education, and who
shall by virtue of the provisions of this section, be
required to run in a primary election, may on or before
sixty—five (65) days preceding the primary election as
herein provided, in a writing signed by him and
acknowledged before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments under the laws of Maryland, notify the
board of supervisors of elections of Montgomery County
that he desires to withdraw as a candidate for such
nomination. The petition of candidacy as to any
candidate so withdrawing shall, thereupon be and become
void and the name of such candidate shall not be placed
on the ballot for such primary election. If the
withdrawal of any candidate reduces the nominees at large
to eight in those years when elections shall be held for
four members to the county Board of Education at large or
to six in those years when elections shall be held for
three members to the county Board of Education at large,
then the board of supervisors of elections shall certify
such remaining candidates as provided by subsection
(b)(1) of this section. In the event that a duly
nominated candidate for election to the respective county
board of education shall, for any reason, cease to be a
candidate, the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
Montgomery County shall place on the ballot for the
general election only the names of the remaining duly
nominated candidates. No person shall be certified as a
candidate who is subject to the authority of the Board of
Education.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That new
Section 36(b) be and it is hereby added to Article 77 —
Public Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1975
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) to read as
follows:

Article 77 - Public Education

36.

(B) (1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION,
NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD
OF EDUCATION SHALL BE MADE BY PETITION ENDORSED BY A
MINIMUM OF 500 VOTERS OF THE COUNTY. EACH PETITION SHALL