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repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

5-106.

(E)    A PROSECUTION FOR THE COMMISSION OF OR THE
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A MISDEMEANOR CONSTITUTING: (1) A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER THE STATE ELECTION LAWS; OR (2) A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER THE STATE CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAWS;
OR (3) A VIOLATION OF THE STATE BRIBERY LAWS IN WHICH AN
OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE OF THE STATE, OR AN AGENCY OF THE
STATE, OR A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OR OF ANY
BI-COUNTY OR MULTI-COUNTY AGENCY IN THE STATE WAS THE
OFFEROR OR OFFEREE, OR INTENDED OFFEROR OR OFFEREE, OF A
BRIBE, OR (4) CRIMINAL MALFEASANCE, MISFEASANCE, OR
NONFEASANCE IN OFFICE COMMITTED BY AN OFFICER OF THE STATE,
OR OF AN AGENCY OF THE STATE, OR OF A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION
OF THE STATE, OR OF A BI-COUNTY OR MULTI-COUNTY AGENCY IN

THE STATE, WHICH IS NOT MADE PUNISHABLE BY CONFINEMENT IN

THE PENITENTIARY BY STATUTE, SHALL BE INSTITUTED WITHIN
THREE TWO YEARS AFTER THE OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED.

(F)    A PROSECUTION FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ANY OF THE
OFFENSES ENUMERATED IN SUBSECTION (E) SHALL BE INSTITUTED
WITHIN THREE TWO YEARS AFTER THE OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall be* construed only prospectively and may not be applied
or interpreted to have any effect upon or application to any
event or happening occurring prior to the effective date of
this Act.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 446

(Senate Bill 251)

AN ACT concerning

Voter Registration — Cancellation

FOR the purpose of requiring the boards of supervisors of
elections annually to determine and to send certain