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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 24

(3)  The clerk of the circuit court for each county
shall give notice[, on a form prescribed by the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws,] to any registered voter
who changes his name that he must notify his election board of
the change.

(4)  The clerk of the circuit court for each county
shall file with the State Administrative Board of Election Laws
the former and present names and residence addresses (if known)
of all persons whose names have been changed by decree or order
of court since the date of the last such report.

(5)  Every agency or instrumentality of any county in
the State or in the City of Baltimore which acquires or condemns
or razes or causes to be condemned or razed any building used as
a residence within the county or city shall promptly report such
fact and the location of such building to the board in the county
or city.

(B) THE REPORTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (1), (2), (3), AND
(4) SHALL BE ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE ADMINISTRATIVE
BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS.

[(b)] (C) The boards may also in their discretion make such
arrangements as seem practicable with the postal authorities in
said city or counties, respectively, and with the water
department and public service companies serving persons therein,
to receive notices of changes in addresses of persons receiving
mail or using such services in said city or county. The boards
are authorized to pay a reasonable compensation for the necessary
clerical service involved.

[(c)] (D) Whenever the death, conviction of infamous crime,
or change of name by decree of any registered voter is reported
as above provided, the board or the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws shall mail to the address of such voter, as it
appears on the registration books or records, a notification that
the death, or conviction of infamous crime, or change of name by
decree has been reported to the board, and shall require the
voter to show cause within two weeks after the mailing of the
notification why his registration should not be cancelled. If no
sufficient cause is shown, the registration of the voter shall be
cancelled by removing the registration cards or forms of the
voter from the original and duplicate files and placing them in a
transfer file. Whenever the board has actual knowledge of the
death of any registered voter, or if the death is established
beyond a reasonable doubt, and it files in its office a statement
to that effect, it is not necessary to mail a notice to the
address of the voter, and his registration may be cancelled, as
hereinafter provided, by removing the registration cards or forms
of the voter from the original and duplicate files and placing
the same in a transfer file.

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