HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  2731

(A) IN ADDITION TO AND INDEPENDENT OF ANY GROUNDS
SPECIFIED IN SECTION 3-802(C)(3) OF THIS ARTICLE, AN ELECTED
COUNTY BOARD MEMBER, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3-802(A) OF THIS
ARTICLE, SHALL FORFEIT HIS OFFICE IF HE BECOMES A CANDIDATE
FOR ANOTHER OFFICE.

(B) A CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDACY FOR ANOTHER OFFICE MAY
NOT BE ACCEPTED BY THE ELECTION BOARD UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY
A NOTICE FROM THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF THE COUNTY BOARD THAT
THE MEMBER HAS SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION FROM THE BOARD.

3-901.

(a)  The Somerset County Board SHALL BE ELECTED FROM
SOMERSET COUNTY AT LARGE AND consists of:

(I) One member from each commissioner district
in the county; and

(2) One member from the county at large.

(b)  (1) A member from a commissioner district shall be
a resident of that district.

(2)  The member from the county at large shall be
a resident of the county.

(3)  A candidate for the County Board shall be a
registered voter of the county.

(4)  (i) A member from a commissioner district
who no longer resides in that district may not continue as a
member of the County Board.

(ii) A member at large who no longer
resides in the county may not continue as a member of the
County Board.

[(5) An individual who is subject to the
authority of the Board may not be a candidate.]

3-1001.

(b) All five members of the Washington County Board
shall be elected FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY AT LARGE at a
general election every 4 years beginning in 1978.

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