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Ch. 3 74
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Approved May 24, 1983.
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CHAPTER 375
(House Bill 242)
AN ACT concerning
Notice of Elections
FOR the purpose of eliminating the use of handbills to give
notice of elections; deleting the requirement that in
Dorchester County notices shall be in 3 newspapers published
in Dorchester County; and providing an exception to the
publication requirement for certain counties which mail
specimen ballots containing certain information.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 33 - Election Code
Section 2-10 and 8-5(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1982 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article 33 - Election Code
2-10.
Each board shall give public notice of the time and place of
all elections in each precinct. Such notice shall be given in
newspapers of general circulation; in the discretion of the
board, [notice] NOTICES may also be [given by handbills set up]
POSTED in such public places in each precinct as the board may
determine. The election board of each county and Baltimore City
at their discretion may mail at least one week before every
election a specimen ballot to the household of each registered
voter in the county or Baltimore City.
(a) The board of each county except those in which a
specimen ballot is mailed pursuant to the preceding paragraph and
such ballot includes the time and place of the election, shall
give notice during the calendar week preceding any election of
the time and place of the election by advertisements, if some can
be procured at the lowest available local rate for commercial
advertising, in at least two newspapers of general circulation
published in the county, except that in those counties where
there is only one newspaper published which is a weekly of
general circulation, then in the weekly newspaper.
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