Ch. 581

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

requirement that at least two members of the Court of Special Appeals be residents
of a certain appellate judicial circuit; providing for the implementation of the
provisions of this Act by designating certain judges to be deemed to be appointed
from certain judicial circuits; specifying a method of filling a certain vacancy;
providing that this Act may not be construed to limit or otherwise affect the terms
or appointments of the members of the Court, except for certain purposes; and
making this Act contingent on the passage of a certain constitutional amendment
and its ratification by the voters of the State.

BY repealing; and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 1-402

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

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

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

1-402.

(a) The Court of [Special] Appeals consists of 13 judges, one of whom shall be
designated by the Governor as Chief Judge.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the judges of the Court of
[Special] Appeals shall be selected, appointed, retained, removed from office, or retired
as provided in Article IV of the Constitution with respect to judges of the SUPREME
Court [of Appeals]. One judge of the Court of [Special] Appeals shall be a resident
respectively of each of the appellate judicial circuits defined in Article IV, § 14 of the
Constitution[, except that two judges shall be residents of the sixth appellate judicial
circuit]. When election to judicial office is required by the Constitution, each of these
judges shall be elected by the qualified voters of his circuit of residence. The remaining
judges of the Court of [Special] Appeals may be residents of any part of the State and,
when election to judicial office is required by the Constitution, shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the entire State. The term of a judge of the Court of [Special]
Appeals begins on the date of his qualification for office.

SECTION 2, AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:

(1) For the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Act, the judges of
the Court of Special Appeals who were in office on November 1, 1993 January 12, 1994,
or their successors, shall be deemed to be serving appointments as follows:

(a)     Judge Dale R. Catchell, Jr. of Worcester County and currently
representing the First Appellate Judicial Circuit, shall continue on the Court as an
appointee from the new First Appellate Judicial Circuit;

(b)     Judge Paul E. Alpert of Baltimore County and currently
representing the Second Appellate Judicial Circuit, shall continue on the Court as an
appointee from the Second Appellate Judicial Circuit;

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