HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(f) In each year preceding any year in which a primary
and general election is to be held in the State, the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws shall conduct meetings
of the members of the boards in the State. It is mandatory
for those members of the boards, SUBSTITUTE MEMBERS, the
principal administrative officers of the boards and the
counsel for the boards who are designated by the State
Administrative Board to attend at least one of the meetings.
The meetings shall be held at a time and place and continue
for such period of time as determined by the State
Administrative Board. The purpose of the meetings is to
instruct the members of the boards, designated employees and
counsel as to their duties in the conduct of elections.
Each member of the boards, SUBSTITUTE MEMBERS, other
employees or counsels who attend the meetings shall be
reimbursed for all approved reasonable expenses for each day
of the meeting attended and shall be paid mileage at the
rate established for State employees from his place of
residence to the place of meeting and return.

2-1.

(a) The Governor shall appoint biennially in each
county of the State and in the City of Baltimore, three
persons who shall constitute the board. The members of the
board shall be residents and voters in their respective
counties or in the City of Baltimore for five years
preceding their appointment [and during the time of acting
as a member of any board shall not hold any public or party
office or be a candidate for any public or party office].
Two [of them] MEMBERS shall always be selected from and
represent the majority party and one shall always be
selected from and represent the principal minority party.

(b) Except in Prince George's County, the Governor at
the same time and in like manner shall appoint to each board
two substitute members one of whom shall be selected from
and represent the majority party and the other of whom shall
be selected from and represent the principal minority party.
[In the event of the temporary or permanent incapacity, from
any cause, of a regular member of said board, or in the
event of a vacancy from any cause on the regularly
constituted board, the substitute member of the same
political party as the regular member so incapacitated or
causing the vacancy shall serve in his place until such
incapacity shall have terminated or said vacancy shall have
been filled as hereinafter provided; and while so serving,
the said substitute member shall have all the powers and
authority, and be subject to all the duties, imposed by law
upon a regularly appointed member of the board.]

(C) (1) IF A MEMBER OF THE BOARD DIES, RESIGNS OR IS
DISQUALIFIED, THE SUBSTITUTE MEMBER BELONGING TO THE SAME
POLITICAL PARTY AS THE MEMBER SHALL BECOME THE MEMBER OF THE
BOARD AND IS BOUND BY ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THIS