2008

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 727

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 77 - Public Education

Section 36C(a)(4)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 36C(a)(4) of Article 77 - Public
Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1975
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education

36C.

(a) (4) The Prince George's County Board of
Education is elected as follows:

(i) A special primary election shall
be held on September 11, 1973 and a special election
shall be held on November 6, 1973. Those members elected
in the 19 73 special elections take office on December 3,
1973.

(ii) Members of the board shall serve
for a term of six years except that those members from
districts 1, 4, and 7 who [are] WERE elected for the
first time at the November 6th 1973 election will serve
until the first Monday in December 1976 and may seek
reelection in 1976 for a [six] FOUR-year term; and those
members from districts 2, 5, and 8 who [are] WERE elected
for the first time at the November 6th 1973 election will
serve until the first Monday in December, 1978, and may
seek reelection in 1978 for a [six] FOUR—year term.
Those members from districts 3,6, and 9 who [are] WERE
elected at the November 6th 1973 election will serve
until the first Monday in December, 1980, and may seek
reelection in 1980 for a [six] FOUR—year term.

(iii) One-third of the board members
shall be elected every second year. Beginning in 1976
the primary election for members of the Board of
Education shall be held on the second Tuesday after the
first Monday in September except in presidential election
years it shall be held on the third Tuesday in May.

(iv) [Beginning July, 1, 1976, school]
SCHOOL board members [in Prince George's County shall
serve for four years. This subsection shall not be
construed to apply to any incumbent as of July 1, 1976]
ELECTED IN 1976 AND AFTER SHALL SERVE FOR A FOUR-YEAR
TERM.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act