WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 346

CHAPTER 346

(Senate Bill 774)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore County - State's Attorney - Compensation and Personnel

FOR the purpose of altering the salary of deputy State's
Attorneys in Baltimore County; altering the salary of
full-time and part-time assistant State's Attorneys in
Baltimore County; increasing the number of assistant State's
Attorneys authorized in Baltimore County; and generally
relating to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's office.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40(d)(2) and (3)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

40.

(d) (2) The State's Attorney shall appoint two deputy
State's Attorneys, each to have an annual salary of not more than
[$51,900] $63,900; one of these deputy State's Attorneys shall be
designated deputy State's Attorney of trial and administration,
and the other deputy State's Attorney shall be designated deputy
State's Attorney of operations. The deputy State's Attorneys are
to perform such work as the State's Attorney may require, shall
serve full time, and may not engage in the private practice of
law.

(3) The State's Attorney of Baltimore County may
appoint [36] 38 assistant State's Attorneys. The salary of the
assistant State's Attorneys may not be more than [$36,600]
$39,900 annually as the State's Attorney may determine. The
State's Attorney may, however, designate 18 of the [36] 38
assistants as full-time assistant State's Attorneys at a salary
of not more than [$46,300] $56,300 annually. The 18 assistants
designated as full-time assistant State's Attorneys may not
engage in the private practice of law.

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