HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                           815

(3) At the time of submitting the certified copies of
returns required by § [17-5,] 17-5 OF THIS ARTICLE, the local
board shall furnish a copy of the certification specified in
PARAGRAPH (2) above.

26-4.

(a) Every central committee, partisan organization, or
political committee, as defined in [§] §§ 1-1 (a) (12), 1-1 (a)
(14) and 4D-1 (a) of this article, except political clubs, shall
appoint and constantly maintain a chairman and a treasurer, whose
names and residence addresses, together with the names and
residence addresses of its other principal officers, shall be
filed where campaign fund reports are required to be filed
pursuant to § 26-11. The chairman, treasurer, and other
principal officers shall all be registered voters of the State of
Maryland. The treasurer shall receive, keep, and disburse all
sums of money, or other valuable things, which may be collected,
received, or disbursed by the committee or organization or by any
of its members for any purposes for which the committee or
organization exists or acts. Unless the chairman, treasurer, and
other officers are appointed and filed as required in this
subsection, it is unlawful and a violation of this article for a
central committee, partisan organization, or political committee,
or any of its members, to collect, or receive, or disburse money,
or other valuable things, for such purposes. A chairman or
treasurer of a committee or organization who resigns or otherwise
ceases to be chairman or treasurer, as the case may be, shall
notify the board or the State Administrative Board of Election
Laws where the original appointment was filed on a form
prescribed by the State Administrative Board of Election Laws
signed by him. A new appointment must be made and filed
immediately in accordance with this section. The treasurer and
chairman shall file campaign fund reports in accordance with
subsection (b) of this section and § 26-11 of this article.

26-5.

(a) The treasurer appointed by the central committee of any
party, or the treasurer appointed in any county or City of
Baltimore by the members of the central committee for such county
or city of any party, or the treasurer appointed by the city
committee [or] OF Baltimore City of any party, may appoint one
subtreasurer for each voting precinct in the said county or city,
as the case may be, which subtreasurer is authorized to expend
such money as may be placed in his hands by the treasurer
appointing him for such purposes as are lawful under the
provisions of this article and for no other purpose, and it shall
be the duty of every such subtreasurer to make a report in
writing under oath to the treasurer appointing him, stating in
detail the amount of money placed in his hands by the said
treasurer and for what purposes the said money was expended by
him and to whom paid on the form prescribed in § 26-12 of this
article and in accordance with § 26-11 of this article; and it
shall be the duty of every such treasurer to file the report of