HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                             67

CHAPTER 29

(House Bill 151)

AN ACT concerning

Election Law - Registration and Voting

FOR the purpose of providing that an individual who will be 18
years old on or before the day of a general election or
special election need not be 17 years old when registering
to vote in that election or the primary election that
precedes it.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code
Section 3-5

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

3-5.

Any person [having reached his seventeenth birthday,] who
will be eighteen years of age on or before the day of the next
succeeding general or special election shall be entitled to vote
at such general or special election, and shall also be entitled
to vote at the primary election preceding such general or special
election, if otherwise entitled to be registered as a qualified
voter. Any such person shall be entitled to register to vote at
any time provided for registration of voters.

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

Approved April 10, 1984.

CHAPTER 30
(House Bill 226)
AN ACT concerning

Flood Control Measures - State Construction Projects