366/Maryland Manual

The law mandates additional responsibilities
for the Board. In odd-numbered years, the Board
convenes a meeting with all members of boards of
supervisors of elections in the counties and
Baltimore City to instruct them, their designated
employees, and counsels as to their duties in the
conduct of elections. The Board also administers
the voter registration by mail program.

Not prescribed by law but deemed necessary to
the effectiveness of the overall program are such
projects assumed by the Board as the review and
monitoring of all election bills, constitutional
amendments, and referenda matters thus related.
Staff assistance is available to members of the
General Assembly for consultation on election re-
lated legislation. Local boards are advised of
hearing schedules and the status of pertinent bills.
Close liaison between the State Board and all lo-
cal boards is a most important function of the
Office.

The Administrator performs all duties assigned
to him by law and/or by SABEL. In addition, he
receives and audits financial reports of candidates
required under the provisions of Article 33, Sec-
tion 1A-1. He serves as Secretary to the Board of
State Canvassers (Code 1957, Art. 33, Secs. 1A-1,
3-l(c), 16B-2, 18-1).

The State Administrative Board of Election
Laws publishes Registration and Election Laws of
Maryland 1982 and A Review of the Meetings of
Presidential Electors in Maryland. These publica-
tions are for sale to the public. The State Board
also has available Primary and General Election
Returns beginning with 1948. More recent re-
turns are published in booklet form. Prices quot-
ed upon request.

EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT REVIEW
BOARD

Chairperson: Matthew L. Tayback, Sc.D., State
Director on Aging

Ex officio members: Lawrence J. Bach, Depart-
ment of Personnel; Patricia Smith, M.D., De-
partment of Health and Mental Hygiene; Peter
A. Whittaker, Trustee, Teachers Retirement
Systems.

Appointed members: Stanley J. Frank, 1983;
Howard E. Marshall, 1983; Gladys Sprinkle,
1983.

301 West Preston Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-5064

The Employees Retirement Review Board was

created by Chapter 720, Acts of 1974, to hear ap-
peals by individual State employees, including
members of the Teachers Retirement System, who
desire to continue their employment after the
mandatory retirement age of seventy has been
reached and their application for continuation has
been denied by their agency.

The Board consists of seven members: the Sec-
retary of Personnel or his designee, the State Di-
rector on Aging, a physician designated by the
State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
a member of the Board of Trustees of the Teach-
ers Retirement System, and three members
appointed by the Governor for four-year terms.
The Board selects its own chairperson (Code
1957, Art. 73B, secs. 11, 86, 110, 117).

MARYLAND STATE EMPLOYEES
SURETY BOND COMMITTEE

William S. James, State Treasurer; Louis L.
Goldstein, Comptroller of the Treasury; Stephen
H. Sachs, Attorney General.

c/o William S. James, State Treasurer
P. 0. Box 666
Annapolis 21404 Telephone: 269-3533

This Committee was created by Chapter 702,
Acts of 1967. It consists of the State Treasurer,
the Comptroller of the Treasury, and the Attor-
ney General of Maryland or their designated rep-
resentatives. Its duty is to set the type and the
amount of the bonds of all State officers and em-
ployees who are required to be bonded. All oth-
ers are to be bonded with the type, the amount,
and the term to be determined by the Committee.
The Comptroller of the Treasury is to keep a
record of the bond, giving the name of the offi-
cers or the employee for whom the bond is is-
sued, the name of the agency in which the person
bonded is employed, the name of the agencies
covered, the name of the company issuing the
bond, its amount, date, time of expiration, and
certificates of renewal (Code 1957, Art. 78A, secs.
46-50).

STATE ETHICS COMMISSION

Chairperson: Herbert J. Belgrad, 1984

Jervis S. Finney, 1983; Barbara M. Steckel, 1985;
Betty B. Nelson, 1986; Rev. John Wesley Hol-
land, 1987.

John E. O'Donnell, Executive Director
Nancy L. Speck, General Counsel