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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 184

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 1-1(a)(8A), 2-11(a)(3), 2-11(a)(3) 3-7(a), and

3-21A(a), and 27-2(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 1-1(a)(8A) of Article 33 - Election
Code of the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be
Section(s) 1-1(a)(8B).

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

1-1.

(a) As used in this article the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated unless a contrary meaning is clearly
intended from the context in which the term appears:

(6A) "ELDERLY" MEANS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.

(8A) "HANDICAPPED" MEANS HAVING A TEMPORARY OR
PERMANENT PHYSICAL DISABILITY.

(8B) "Independent" means any voter who has declined
to affiliate with a political party.

2-11.

(a) (3) Every polling place, to the extent feasible, shall
be structurally barrier free in order to permit reasonable
access, for the purpose of voting, to [physically] ELDERLY AND
handicapped voters. [For the purposes of this section,
"physically handicapped voter" means any voter who has
temporarily or permanently lost the use of a leg or both legs or
a foot or both feet or any combination; who is so severely
disabled as to be unable to move without the aid of braces,
canes, crutches or a wheelchair; whose mobility is significantly
impaired by reason of heart or lung disease; who suffers from
hemophilia; or who is blind or whose vision is substantially
impaired.]

3-7.

(a) Any qualified voter [whose physical disability confines
him to a hospital or causes him to be confined to bed and
permanently prevents him from being present to register or