SEC. 2.214 Any elected official of the State, or of a county or of a municipal corporation who during his term of office is convicted of or enters a plea of nolo contendere to any crime which is a felony, or which is a misdemeanor related to his public duties and responsibilities and involves moral turpitude for which the penalty may be incarceration in any penal institution, shall be suspended by operation of law without pay or benefits from the elective office. During and for the period of suspension of the elected official, the appropriate governing body and/ or official authorized by law to fill any vacancy in the elective office shall appoint a person to temporarily fill the elective office, provided that if the elective office is one for which automatic succession is provided by law, then in such event the person entitled to succeed to the office shall temporarily fill the elective office. If the conviction becomes final, after judicial review or otherwise, such elected official shall be removed from the elective office by operation of Law and the office shall be deemed vacant. If the conviction of the elected official is reversed or overturned, the elected official shall be reinstated by operation of Law to the elective office for the remainder, if any, of the elective term of office during which he was so suspended or removed, and all pay and benefits shall be restored.
SEC . 3.215 No person who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Maryland through force or violence shall be eligible to hold any office, be it elective or appointive, or any other position of profit or trust in the Government of or in the administration of the business of this State or of any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State.
SEC . 4.216 Vacant.
SEC . 5.217 Except as the Constitution provides otherwise for any office, the General Assembly may provide by law for a person to act in place of any elected or appointed officer of the State who is unavailable to perform the duties of his office because he has become unable or is or will be absent.
SEC . 6.218 Vacant.
SEC . 7.219 All general elections in this State shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of Nov., in the year in which they shall occur.
SEC . 8.220 Vacant.
SEC . 9.221 Vacant.
SEC . 10.222 Vacant.
SEC . 11.223 Vacant.
213 Amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956; Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
214 Originally Article XV, sec. 3, renumbered by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978. As sec. 3 it was amended by Chapter 879, Acts of 1974, ratified Nov. 5, 1974.
215 Originally Article XV, sec. 11, renumbered by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978. As sec. 11 it was added by Chapter 721, Acts of 1947, ratified Nov. 2, 1948.
216 Transferred to Article XVII, sec. 8, by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
217 Added by Chapter 974, Acts of 1978, ratified Nov. 7, 1978. The previous sec. 5 was transferred to Article 23 of the Declaration of Rights by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
218 Transferred to Article 23 of the Declaration of Rights by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
219 Amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956.
220 Repealed by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956.
221 Transferred to Article XVII, sec. 4, by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
222 Transferred to Article I, sec. 10, by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
223 Transferred to Article XV, sec. 3, by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
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