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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 1911
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(House Bill 297)
AN ACT concerning
Court of Special Appeals
FOR the purpose of adding an additional judge to the
Court of Special Appeals.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 1-402
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1976 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1-402 of Article - Courts and
Judicial Proceedings, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1976 Supplement) be and it is hereby
repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:
Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings
1-402.
(a) The Court of Special Appeals consists of
[twelve] 13 judges, one of whom shall be designated by
the Governor as Chief Judge.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section,
the judges of the Court of Special Appeals shall be
selected, appointed, retained, removed from office, or
retired as provided in Article IV of the Constitution
with respect to judges of the Court of Appeals. One
judge of the Court of Special Appeals shall be a resident
respectively of each of the appellate judicial circuits
defined in Article IV, § 14 of the Constitution, except
that two judges shall be residents of the Sixth Appellate
Judicial Circuit. When election to judicial office is
required by the Constitution, each of these judges shall
be elected by the qualified voters of his circuit of
residence. The remaining judges of the Court of Special
Appeals may be residents of any part of the state and,
when election to judicial office is required by the
Constitution, shall be elected by the qualified voters of
the entire state. The term of a judge of the Court of
Special Appeals begins on the date of his qualification
for office.
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1977.
Approved April 29, 1977.
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