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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 97

(z) Treasurer.

"Treasurer" shall include an assistant treasurer and
collector of contributions.

(aa) Vestry.

"Vestry" means the governing body of a parish or
separate congregation.

299. Qualifications of voters.

(a)  Persons entitled to vote for vestrymen.

Every resident of this State, over 18 years of age,
who shall have been an enrolled member of the parish
where he offers to vote for six months next preceding the
day of election, and who shall have shared in the work of
the parish by contributions, donations or personal
services rendered at the request or with the consent of
the vestry, or who shall have complied with such other
financial requirements as the bylaws of the parish may
provide, shall have the right of suffrage for the
election of vestrymen for such parish.

(b)   Eight to vote on other parish matters.

Any person qualified to     vote for the election of

vestrymen shall have the right     to vote on any other

matter pertaining to the parish   on which the congregation
may act.

(c)   Enrollment.

(1)   Of Bona Fide Resident Members. Every
communicant and baptized member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, other than a transferee, having a bona
fide residence in any parish, may be enrolled, with his
consent but not otherwise, as a member of the parish in
which he resides by the registrar of such parish, without
formal application.

(2)     Of Transferred Members. Every
communicant and baptized member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, removing from one parish to another,
who desires to be transferred, shall be enrolled by the
registrar of the parish to which he may remove upon the
receipt of a certificate of transfer or without it, as
the case may be, pursuant to general or diocesan
canonical mandate.

(3)   Of Other Members. Every communicant and
baptized member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
regardless of parochial residence, who shall apply for
the purpose, shall be enrolled by the registrar as a
member of the parish in which he applies for enrollment.

(4)     Of Contributors. Unless otherwise