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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 312

CHAPTER 312
(Senate Bill 591)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County — Cancellation of Voter's Registration

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the cancellation of the
registration of a voter if he votes in any election
in Frederick City within a certain period.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 3-20(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 3-20(a) of Article 33 - Election
Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

3-20.

(a) If a registered voter has not voted at least
once at a primary, general or special election within the
five preceding calendar years, it shall be the duty of
the board or the board of permanent registry unless cause
to the contrary be shown, to cause the registration of
that voter to be cancelled by removing the registration
cards or forms of the voter from the original and
duplicate files and placing the same in a transfer file.
In the [City] CITIES of Hagerstown AND FREDERICK voting
in a municipal election during this period will satisfy
the requirements of this section. A notice of this
action and the reason therefor shall be sent to the last
known address of the voter, notifying him to appear
before the board at a date specified in the notice not
earlier than one week or later than two weeks from the
date of mailing of the notice, and to show cause why his
name should not be removed from the registry.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED,   That this Act

is hereby declared to be an emergency     measure and

necessary for the immediate preservation   of the public

health and safety and having been passed by   a yea and nay