BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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5-1.

Any political party with which ten per centum or more of
the registered voters of this State are affiliated, as shown
by the most recent statement of registration of the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws compiled pursuant to §
3-9A (b) of this article shall AT THE NEXT SUCCEEDING
PRIMARY ELECTION CONDUCTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SUBTITLE: (1) nominate [(1) ] all its candidates for public
office; [and] (2) ELECT all members of the [State and] local
central committees in said political party [at the
succeeding primary election conducted under the provisions
of this subtitle]; and [shall] (3) elect the appropriate
number of delegates to a national convention as provided in
this article. The several boards shall not print on the
official ballot to be voted at any general or special
election to be hereafter held the name or names of any such
candidate or candidates for election in Baltimore City or
any of the counties of the State of any of said parties who
shall not be so nominated and whose nomination shall not be
certified to them or to the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws as having been so nominated.

8-5.

(b) The names of the several candidates for nomination
or for delegates, members of [State and] local central
committees [,] of a political party, shall be published
within not less than two nor more than ten days before the
said election in the mode prescribed hereinabove in this
section, as far as may be practicable. It shall not be
necessary to print sample ballots or cards of instructions
for such elections, but either or both shall be printed by
the board in the county or City of Baltimore, when requested
by any candidate in said election, said request to be
accompanied by a sum of money necessary to cover the cost of
printing.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved March 10, 1978.

CHAPTER 10

(Senate Bill 432)

AN ACT concerning

Calvert County — Orphans' Court Judges

FOR the purpose of altering the annual salary of Orphans'
Court judges in Calvert County; and prohibiting the