616                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 433

(b)   When the testimony is fully transcribed the transcript shall
be submitted to the applicant for examination and shall be read to
or by him, unless such examination and reading are waived by him.
Any changes which the applicant desires to make shall be entered
upon the transcript by the officer transcribing same with a state-
ment of the reason given by the applicant for making them. The
transcript shall then be signed by the applicant; and the officer
transcribing same shall certify on the transcript that the applicant
was duly sworn by him and that the transcript is a true record of
the testimony given by the applicant.

(c)   There shall be a public disclosure by the county council of
the complete transcribed testimony of the actual appointee or ap-
pointees three weeks from the date of his or her appointment; and
the complete transcript of all other applicants shall be destroyed by
the county council immediately without disclosure of any information
contained therein to anyone.

4. Conduct prohibited.

(a) No commissioner shall:

(1)   Decide or participate in a decision in which he has a financial
interest, as owner, member, partner, officer, employee, stockholder,
or other participant of or in any private business or professional
enterprise that will be affected by such decision, nor shall a commis-
sioner knowingly participate in a decision affecting a person related

to him or his spouse within and including the second degree of con-

sanguinity as determined by the common law method of computa-
tion. , FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER OR CHILD,
JOINTLY OR SEVERALLY. This subsection shall not be construed
to prohibit a commissioner from having or holding private invest-
ment, business, or professional interests, but shall be construed to
apply when such interests are or reasonably may be in conflict with
the proper performance of duty by the commissioner. The term
"financial interest" shall mean ownership fey SUCH INTERESTS
SHALL BE PRESUMED TO BE IN CONFLICT WITH THE
PROPER PERFORMANCE OF DUTY BY THE COMMISSIONER
WHEN the commissioner or his spouse, father, mother, brother,
sister or child, jointly or severally, of OWNS a total of more than
three per centum of the invested capital or capital stock of ANY
GROUPS, FIRMS, CORPORATIONS, OR ASSOCIATIONS IN-
VOLVED IN THE DECISION BEING MADE BY THE COMMIS-
SIONER OR HIS COMMISSION or receipt of RECEIVES a total
combined compensation of more than five thousand dollars per year
from any INDIVIDUAL, groupS, firmS, corporations, or associa-
tions involved in the decision being made by the commissioner or his
commission. but SUCH PRESUMPTION shall not be construed to
mean APPLY TO or include an interest or investment in land geo-
graphically remote from the land involved in the decision, a possibility
of reverter, a mortgage, or other security interest in which the real
party in interest is not as otherwise defined in this subsection.

(2)    Act as broker, agent, attorney, representative, or employee
of any person in his business dealings with Montgomery County,
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission or
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or represent private
interests before Montgomery County or the above commissions; nor