J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            511

CHAPTER 377
(Senate Bill 242)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 108 (12)
of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1960 Supple-
ment), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates
System", amending the laws concerning trial magistrates and the
present office of substitute trial magistrate in Harford County in
order to provide for the status, duties and salaries of the present
substitute trial magistrates. MAGISTRATE.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 108 (12) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1960 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial
Magistrates System", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

108.

(12) Harford County.—There shall be five trial magistrates, one
of whom shall sit at Bel Air, who shall receive an annual salary of
five thousand dollars ($5,000.00); one each at Havre de Grace,
Aberdeen, Darlington, and the Abingdon and Edgewood area, who
shall receive annual salaries of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500.00).
In addition, there shall be appointed a [substitute] trial magistrate
at large for Harford County, who shall sit in Bel Air [when not
otherwise substituting,] , who shall have full powers of original
jurisdiction as an alternate trial magistrate, who shall be available
as a substitute trial magistrate to sit as and where needed, and who
shall be paid an annual salary of [two] three thousand dollars
[($2,000.00)] ($3,000.00) ; provided that all of said magistrates may
sit from time to time at other locations in the county than those
regularly designated. In the absence of the [substitute] magistrate
at large it shall be the duty of any of the aforesaid trial magistrates
to act as substitute magistrates either voluntarily or at the request
of the chief magistrate of the People's Court of Harford County.
Said trial magistrates shall be designated and shall constitute the
People's Court of Harford County and shall be known as the trial
magistrates of the People's Court. The Governor shall designate one
of such magistrates as the chief trial magistrate of the People's Court
of Harford County, whose duty it shall be to call at least two meetings
of such magistrates annually in April and November for the purpose
of promoting an orderly and uniform system of justice and of adopt-
ing a convenient hearing schedule. The magistrates of the People's
Court appointed for Bel Air and the chief magistrate designated by
the Governor shall be persons who have been admitted to the practice
of law in Harford County. The other magistrates authorized by this
section shall be members of the Harford County bar if in the judg-
ment of the Governor members qualified by experience and tempera-
ment are conveniently available for such service. All magistrates in
office on January 1, 1960, shall continue in office, and be eligible for
reappointment.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.