HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Election Code - Certification of Referendum Results

FOR the purpose of deleting the requirement that a clerk of the
court certify referendum results to the State Comptroller;
and deleting the requirement that the Comptroller collect
and keep careful records of certifications while maintaining
the obligation to collect and keep records of certifications
by the State Administrative Board of Election Laws.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code
Section 23-ll(a)
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

23-11.

(a) It shall be the duty of the board of county
commissioners, the county council, the mayor or other executive
head of every municipal corporation and the executive head of any
other political subdivision in this State, in which jurisdiction
there is held a referendum vote on any law, ordinance or
resolution, to report the results of such referendum as promptly
as possible to the clerk of the court in the county or counties
in which said political subdivision lies; and as promptly as
possible thereafter said clerk of court shall certify the results
of any such referendum to the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws [and to the State Comptroller. Each of such latter
officials]. THE BOARD is directed to collect and keep careful
records of such certifications.

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

Approved May 8, 1984.

CHAPTER 180

(House Bill 345)

AN ACT concerning

Property Tax - Reassessment of Buildings
or Improvements