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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 255

certificate. At a primary election each candidate for election
as a member of the central [committee,] COMMITTEE executive
committee of any party or other party committee, shall pay the
sum of ten dollars ($10.00) upon filing his certificate with the
board or State Administrative Board of Election Laws.

(d) Candidates for State Senator and member of the House of
Delegates shall each pay to the State Administrative Board of
Election [Laws,] LAWS the sum of fifty dollars ($50) upon filing
their certificates.

4A-7.

(a) In the event that the name of any candidate who has
paid a filing fee to any board or to the State Administrative
Board of Election Laws as hereinabove [provided,] PROVIDED shall
not appear on the official ballot at the primary election by
reason of there being no opposing candidate, such candidate shall
not be entitled to a return of his filing fee. These sums shall
be retained by the State Administrative Board of Election Laws,
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or in the case of the
counties, by the county commissioners or the county council to
which the same shall have been paid by the board.

4B-1.

(h) Unless the party is required to select its nominees for
public office by primary election pursuant to § 5-1 of this
article, the nominees for public office of the party shall be
selected in the manner provided in the interim constitution and
bylaws of the party, but no such nominee shall appear upon the
ballot at any general election unless the nominee has complied
with all the requirements of the provisions of the subtitle
"Nomination by Petition" of this article, including the filing of
petitions with the election board or the several boards of the
State, which shall bear in addition to the name of the nominee,
the name of the party, signed by not less than three percent (3%)
of the registered voters who are eligible to vote for the office
for which election at the general election is sought. If a
nominee of a party has filed a valid petition for nomination in
compliance with all the requirements of the subtitle "Nomination
by Petition" of this article, but dies or declines the nomination
before election day, the central committee of the political party
with which said nominee is affiliated, may fill the vacancy in
the nomination of the party in the manner provided [in §] IN §§
9-2 through 9-5, inclusive, of this article. The political party
shall not nominate more than one candidate for each public or
party office to be filled at the succeeding general election,
except to fill a vacancy in a prior nomination.

4D-1.

(a) Any person or combination of two or more persons who
expends $51 or more to organize, promote, or assist in any manner
the write-in candidacy of any person or persons for any public