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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 810

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 vote supported by

three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two

Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 811

(Senate Bill 501)

AN ACT concerning

Political Committees - Resignation of Chairman or Treasurer

FOR the purpose of requiring the chairman or treasurer of a
political committee or organization who is not
reelected or whose term expires without having sought
reelection to notify a certain board of elections on a
certain form.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 26-4(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

26-4.

(a) Every central committee, partisan organization, or
political committee, as defined in § 1-1 (a) (12), 1—1 (a)
(14) and 4D-1 (a) of this article, except political clubs,
shall appoint and constantly maintain a chairman and a
treasurer, whose names and residence addresses, together
with the names and residence addresses of its other
principal officers, shall be filed where campaign fund
reports are required to be filed pursuant to § 26-11. The
chairman, treasurer, and other principal officers shall all
be registered voters of the State of Maryland. The
treasurer shall receive, keep, and disburse all sums of
money, or other valuable things, which may be collected,
received, or disbursed by the committee or organization or
by any of its members for any purposes for which the
committee or organization exists or acts. Unless the
chairman, treasurer, and other officers are appointed and