HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                         2251

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 319

(Senate Bill 260)

AN ACT concerning

Election Code - Deadline for Changing
Party Affiliation

FOR the purpose of altering certain deadlines for changes in
party affiliation by registered voters so that those
deadlines are the same as the deadlines for the filing of
certain certificates of candidacy prior to regular and
special primary elections; making technical and stylistic
changes; and generally relating to changes in party
affiliation by registered voters, ; and providing that this
Act is an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 3-8 and 4A-3 Section 3-8, 3-9A(a), 4A-3, and

7-l(b)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

3-8.

(a) (1) No person may register after the fifth Monday
preceding or during the [ten] 10 days following a primary or
special primary election; nor may he ANY PERSON register after
the fifth Monday preceding or during the [fifteen] 15 days
following a general or special election.

(2)  On the fifth Monday preceding any election, the
local board shall accept registration by mail applications until
the board office closes.

(3)  Any registered voter who moves from the address
specified in the voter's registration or changes his name, within
30 days thereafter, shall notify the board of the voter's former
and new addresses or former and new names, as the case may be.