Ch. 20                                     2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(1)     permit a ballot or ballots to be placed into a ballot [box]
RECEPTACLE prior to the time for voting; or

(2)     place a ballot in a ballot [box] RECEPTACLE unless the ballot is
offered by a properly registered voter or is a provisional ballot placed with other
provisional ballots of the same character.

(b)     A person may not:

(1)     cause or permit a ballot, including a provisional ballot, to be cast or
deposited in a ballot [box] RECEPTACLE, voting device, or other receptacle designed
for the collection of ballots other than by a person entitled under this article to cast a
ballot; or

(2)     substitute, alter, add, or remove a submitted ballot from a ballot
[box] RECEPTACLE, voting device, or other receptacle designed for the collection of
ballots, except when instructed to do so by the election director.

(c)     A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and is subject to
imprisonment for not less than 1 year nor more than 5 years.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 2004.

Approved April 13, 2004.

CHAPTER 20
(Senate Bill 58)

AN ACT concerning

Natural Resources - Forest or Park Wardens - Term

FOR the purpose of eliminating the requirement that a person commissioned by the
Secretary of Natural Resources to act as a forest or park warden may serve only
a certain term; and generally relating to the term and duties of a forest or park
warden.

BY repealing an reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 5-206(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

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