J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1979

county from each of which one commissioner shall be elected. THE
DISTRICTS FROM WHICH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ARE ELECTED, ESTABLISHING
SUCH DISTRICTS AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECT OF
THIS ACT UPON THE SEVERAL ELECTION DISTRICTS IN
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, CHANGING THE NUMBER
ELECTED AND THE TIME OF ELECTION, RELATING TO
THEIR MEETINGS, PROVIDING FOR COUNTY COMMIS-
SIONER DISTRICTS FOR RESIDENCE OF CANDIDATES FOR
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND PROVIDING FOR QUALIFI-
CATIONS FOR CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY COMMISSION-
ERS IN THE COUNTY.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 2-14.1 be and it is hereby added to the Code of
Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel County (1957 Edition and 1961
Supplement, being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Anne Arundel County," subtitle "Chapter 2. Ad-
ministration," subheading "Article III. County Commissioners," to
follow immediately after Section 2-14 thereof; and to repeal and
re-enact, with amendments, Sections 2-13, 2-44 and 2-15 of said Code,
and all to read as follows:

2-13.

At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in the month of November in the year nineteen hundred
and [forty-two (1942)] sixty-six (1966) and every four years there-
after, there shall be elected [eight] a President of the Board of
County Commissioners and four (4) FIVE (5) County Commissioners
for Anne Arundel County, who shall be eligible for re-election [;
said]. The Board of County Commissioners shall meet at their office
in the Court House at Annapolis for the transaction of the duties of
their office at 9 A.M. on Tuesday and 8 P.M. on Thursday in each
week, and on such other days as they may deem necessary or the
President of the Board may direct.

2-14.

(a) A person to be eligible to the office of President of the Board
of County Commissioners of of County Commissioner in Anne Arun-
del County shall have actually resided in the county for at least ten
years, and shall be a taxpayer upon real estate in said county assessed
for at least two thousand dollars.

(b) The [Chairman] President of the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel County shall be the chief executive and ad-

ministrative officer of the county, whose duty it shall be, on a con-

tinuing basis, to direct and supervise the conduct of the business of

the county and of its various agencies of every kind, and to see that

the acts and directives of the Board of County Commissioners are

fully and properly effectuated. The President shall devote his full

time to the duties of his office and shall receive an annual salary of

[Three] Twelve thousand [Three Hundred] Dollars [($3,300.00;
the other]

(c) The members of the said Board of County Commissioners
shall receive an annual salary of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).