HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(3) THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL ESTABLISH A
PROCEDURE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY THROUGH
WHICH VOTES MAY BE CAST AS UNCOMMITTED TO ANY PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.

(3) (4) Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this article, whenever any person who has been nominated in
any presidential primary election, in a writing signed by
him and acknowledged before a notary public, notifies the
officer or board with whom the certificate of candidacy, or
petition for nomination, or name is required to be filed by
this article, at least forty-five (45) days before the
primary that he desires to withdraw as a candidate for the
nomination, his name shall be withdrawn and the name of any
person so withdrawing shall not be printed upon the ballots
to be used at the presidential primary election. The filing
of a valid certificate of withdrawal of candidacy is a final
act of withdrawal; and a person who files a certificate of
withdrawal may not reinstate his candidacy, unless the time
limit for the filing of candidacies has not expired. No
filing fees shall be refunded to persons who withdraw in
accordance with this section, subject, however, to § 4A-7 of
this article. Nothing in this section shall apply to a
candidate who qualifies under § 12-2(a)(l).

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 128

(Senate Bill 774)

AN ACT concerning

Handicapped Persons - Use of Special Vehicles

FOR the purpose of permitting handicapped persons to
providing that where permitted by local ordinance,
handicapped persons may use special vehicles on
sidewalks or sidewalk areas under certain

circumstances; requiring the Meter Vehicle

Administration to establish qualifications and

regulations for such users and use; and requiring the
Motor Vehicle Administration to establish operational

and maintenance standards for those vehicles in

accordance with local rules and regulations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,