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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 6, 1980.

CHAPTER 365

(House Bill 22)

AN ACT concerning

Garrett County - Board of Education Elections

FOR the purpose of repealing a unconstitutional
provision relating to campaign expenditure limitations
on Garrett County Board of Education elections.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 32-3A(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

32-3A.

(b) [(1) Nominees and candidates for membership on the
Board shall limit their campaign expenditures from all
sources to a sum equal to 5 cents times the number of
registered voters in Garrett County on January 1 next
preceding the primary or general election.

(2)] All candidates and nominees shall file
information relating to their campaign expenditures in
accordance with the provisions of this article.

[(3) If the campaign expenditures of any

candidate or nominee exceeds the sum permitted under

paragraph (1) of this subsection, that candidate or nominee
shall forfeit any office on the Board to which he was
elected.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act

shall take effect July 1, 1980.