2760

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 513

FILE UNDER OATH OR AFFIRMATION WITH THE COMMISSION, WITHIN 60
DAYS OF LEAVING, THE STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THIS TITLE, FOR THE
CALENDAR YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING, UNLESS A STATEMENT HAS
PREVIOUSLY BEEN FILED FOR THAT YEAR, AND ANY PORTION OF THE
CURRENT CALENDAR YEAR DURING WHICH THAT OFFICIAL HELD THAT
OFFICE.

(II) IF AN OFFICIAL LEAVES ONE OFFICE TO BECOME
AN OFFICIAL IN ANOTHER OFFICE FOR WHICH A STATEMENT IS REQUIRED
TO BE FILED, AND THE STANDARDS FOR SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE
INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT STATEMENT ARE THE
SAME AT LEAST AS EXTENSIVE AS THOSE FOR THE OFFICE HE LEFT
REQUIRED BY SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE OFFICIAL MAY
NOT BE REQUIRED TO FILE THE STATEMENT PROVIDED FOR IN
SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.

(b)  Except for an official who has filed a statement
pursuant to subsection (a) above for the same year or portion of
the same year for which a statement otherwise would be required
to be filed by this subsection, each candidate for nomination
for, or election to, an office set forth in § 4-101 shall file
under oath or affirmation with the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws, or the appropriate local board of election
supervisors, together with his certificate of candidacy and the
statement required by this title, for the calendar year
immediately preceding.

(c)  If the certificate of candidacy is filed prior to
January 1 of the year in which the election is held, the
candidate, on or before the 30th day of April of the year of the
election or the last day for the withdrawal of candidacy,
whichever is earlier, shall file under oath or affirmation a
statement for the calendar year immediately preceding the
election; and if he fails to do so, after written notice of his
obligation, given at least 20 days prior to the last day for the
withdrawal of candidacy, he shall be deemed to have withdrawn his
candidacy.

(d)  The State Administrative Board of Election Laws and the
local boards of election supervisors may not accept any
certificate of candidacy or certificate of nomination unless a
statement in proper form has been filed. Within 30 days of the
receipt of a statement by any such board, it shall forward it to
the Commission.

(e)  All statements filed pursuant to this title shall be
maintained by the Commission and shall be made available by the
Commission, during normal office hours, for examination and
copying by the public, subject, however, to such reasonable fees
and administrative procedures as the Commission may establish
from time to time. The Commission shall require that any person
examining or copying such statements shall record his name, home
address, and the name of the person whose disclosure statement
was examined or copied and that such record be forwarded upon
request to the person whose disclosure statement was so examined
or copied.