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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 8

OF PRIMARY ELECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS (A), (B), AND (C) OF THIS
SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY AND IN LIEU THEREOF DELEGATES AND
ALTERNATE DELEGATES TO REPRESENT THE POLITICAL PARTY AT ITS
NATIONAL CONVENTION SHALL BE ELECTED AT A PARTY CONVENTION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWFUL RULES AND PRACTICES OF THE
PARTY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
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 February 15, 1980.

CHAPTER 9

(Senate Bill 200)

AN ACT concerning

Candidates - Withdrawal

FOR the purpose of modifying the time period in which
certain candidates for the Office of President of the
United States may withdraw as a candidate for the
nomination; and making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 12-2(a)(4)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

12-2.

(a) Whenever a party uses a primary election to
nominate a candidate for President of the United States, any
person who desires to run in the primary election may become
a candidate for nomination only:

(4) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
article, whenever any person who has been nominated in any