Ch. 10                                      1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(D)     EACH EMPLOYEE [shall] :

(1)      SHALL be A registered [voters of the] VOTER OF THE State [of
Maryland]; and[, with respect to any appointment after July 1, 1978,]

(2)      [shall] SHALL be a resident of the county [in which] WHERE the board
is located and maintain [such residence] THAT RESIDENCY while [so] employed BY
THE BOARD.

(E)      [During any part of his tenure] WHILE in office or [his employment]
EMPLOYED BY A BOARD, an employee may not [hold]:

(1)      HOLD any public OFFICE or OFFICE IN A POLITICAL party [office or];

(2)      [be] BE a candidate for any public OFFICE or OFFICE IN A POLITICAL
party [office];

(3)      [use his] USE THE EMPLOYEE'S official authority or influence [for the
purpose of interfering with or affecting] TO INTERFERE WITH OR AFFECT the result of
an election; or

(4)      [take an active part] ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in political management
or [in] political campaigns.

[Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to election judges, whatever
their title may be, or to attorneys to the election boards. However, an election judge or an
attorney to an election board may not be a candidate, a campaign manager for a
candidate or a treasurer for a candidate or political committee.]

(F)     In Baltimore City, the board may not have more than 45 employees [,] or [as
provided hereafter] THE NUMBER SET by the Secretary of Personnel.

(G)     AN ELECTION JUDGE OR AN ATTORNEY TO AN ELECTION BOARD MAY
NOT BE:

(1)      A CANDIDATE FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE OR OFFICE IN A POLITICAL
PARTY;

(2)      A CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR A CANDIDATE; OR

(3)      A TREASURER FOR A CANDIDATE OR POLITICAL COMMITTEE.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Chapter______, Acts of 1993, which enacted Division I of the

State Personnel Article, also amended this section to incorporate without
substantive change former Art. 64A, § 9G(a), (b), (h)(1) and (2), (i)(1) and
(2), (j)(1) and (2), and the requirement in (f) that employees covered by
county merit systems must be in the classified service of those systems, and to
make stylistic changes..

Former Art. 64A, § 9G(c), (d), (e), (g), (h)(3), (i)(3), and (j)(3) and (4), which
required certain qualifying examinations and required that employees
entering the "State Merit System" be given credit for prior county service
between 1972 and 1978, are deleted as obsolete.

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