Section 5-1302 - Deadline for filing certificate of designation and consequence of vacancy occurring after deadline. - Maryland Statutes

§ 5-1302. Deadline for filing certificate of designation and consequence of vacancy occurring after deadline.
 

(a)  Deadline.- A certificate of designation may not be filed later than 10 days before the day of the general election. 

(b)  Vacancy created.- If the name of a nominee who has died, declined the nomination, or been disqualified appears on the ballot and receives a number of votes that would have been sufficient for election if the nominee had not died, declined, or been disqualified for the nomination, the vacancy thereby created shall be: 

(1) deemed to have occurred after the day of the general election; and 

(2) filled in accordance with this article or other provisions of law. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 33, § 5-1302; 2002, ch. 291, §§ 2, 4.]