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Maryland Manual, 1965-66
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MARYLAND MANUAL 397
1. COUNTIES
The county officials are here divided into two groups: Judicial and
Administrative. The administrative officials are listed according to the
following functions: executive and legislative; fiscal; election; public
safety; health, education, and welfare; planning, building, and inspec-
tion; licensing; liquor control; and extension and soil conservation
services.
Several counties have begun to outgrow the traditional county
offices. Four counties, Montgomery (in 1948), Baltimore (in 1956), and
Anne Arundel and Wicomico (in 1964), have adopted charter govern-
ments with special departments and officers which perform functions
formerly exercised by the Board of County Commissioners. Even in
these counties, however, most of the traditional offices remain, and
though many of them are not regulated by charter, they work side
by side with the new departments. For this reason, we have listed the
officers of those four counties, like those of other counties, according
to function rather than according to the legal or administrative rela-
tionships their charters have created.
Methods of appointment and terms of office of the officials common
to most of the counties are explained below. Such information about
officers peculiar to any one county is given in. footnotes. Unless other-
wise indicated, all officers may be addressed at their respective county
seats.
METHODS OF APPOINTMENT
JUDICIAL OFFICERS
Resident Judge:
Elected by the voters of the First, Second, and Eighth Judicial
Circuits and in other circuits by the voters of the county for a
fifteen-year term (Const. 1867, Art. IV, Sees. 19-26; Code 1957,
Art. 26).
Clerk of the Circuit Court:
Elected by the voters of the county for a four-year term (Code
1957, Art. 17).
State's Attorney:
Elected by the voters of the county for a four-year term (Const.
1867, Art. V, Sees. 7-12).
Sheriff:
Elected by the voters of the county for a four-year term (Const.
1867, Art. IV, Sec. 44).
Register of Wills:
Elected by the voters of the county for a four-year term (Const.
1867, Art. IV, Sec. 41).
Judges, Orphans' Court:
Elected by the voters of the county for a four-year term. The
Governor designates the Chief Judge. After November 1966, the
Circuit Court Judges will perform Orphans' Court functions in
Montgomery County (Const. 1867, Art. IV, Sees. 20, 40; Code 1957,
Art. 93).
Trial Magistrates:
Appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate for
two-year terms, except in Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties where People's Courts have replaced the
Trial Magistrates system (Code 1957, 1965 Supp., Art. 52, Sees.
97-126).

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