3836                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 742

Section 1-16(c)

Article 8 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(1970 Edition and 1979 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland read(s) as follows:

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Section (s) 1-16 of the Public Local Laws of

Cecil County being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland be repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland read(s) as

follows:

Article 8 - Cecil County

1-16.

(C) ELECTIONS SUBSEQUENT TO ARTICLE 17 AMENDMENT OF
1922. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CECIL COUNTY SHALL BE
ELECTED BY THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY AT LARGE AND HOLD OFFICE
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS:

(1)  THE COUNTY SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO 3
COMMISSIONER DISTRICTS.

(I)  THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD ELECTION
DISTRICTS SHALL CONSTITUTE THE FIRST COMMISSIONER DISTRICT;

(II)  THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND NINETH NINTH
ELECTION DISTRICTS SHALL CONSTITUTE THE SECOND COMMISSIONER
DISTRICT; AND

(III)  THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH
ELECTION DISTRICTS SHALL CONSTITUTE THE THIRD COMMISSIONER
DISTRICT.

(2)  ONE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE ELECTED FROM EACH
COMMISSIONER DISTRICT.

(3)  A PERSON MAY NOT BE ELIGIBLE AS A CANDIDATE
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER UNLESS HE IS A RESIDENT OF THE
COMMISSIONER DISTRICT AT THE TIME OF NOMINATION AND
ELECTION.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.