2616                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                            Ch. 922

Approved May 25, 1976.

CHAPTER 923

(House Bill 1557)

AN ACT concerning

Election Code — Certification of Questions

FOR the purpose of requiring, in Howard County, the clerk
of [[certain courts]] the circuit court to certify
questions of local concern to the [[boards]] board
of supervisors of elections if the [[county
commissioners, county councils, or treasurer of the
City of Baltimore have]] county council has not
certified these questions by a certain date; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Sections 23—1(a) and 16—6(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 23-1(a) and 16-6(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are hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to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

23-1.

(a) (1) Whenever a proposed Constitution or
constitutional amendment [for] OR other question is to be
submitted for popular approval to the voters of the State
or local subdivisions thereof, the State Administrative
Board of Election Laws shall certify the same to the
boards on or before the fourth Monday in the month of
July. Thereupon the board shall include the same in the
publication provided for in § 8—5 of this article.         If

questions of local concern are to be submitted for
approval to the vote of the people of a county or a
municipality, the same shall be certified to the boards
within [said] THAT period by the county commissioners,
county councils or treasurer of the City of Baltimore, as
the case may be, and shall be advertised as [herein
provided] in the case of nominees for county or city
offices.