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his own initiative to audit the books, records and reports of any
county, incorporated city or town or taxing district; and provided
further, that any county, incorporated city or town or taxing district
may request the State Auditor to audit its books, [record] records
and reports, the costs of such examination to be borne by said sub-
division. If the audit provided in this section shall be made by any
certified public accountant or registered public accountant or the
fiscal auditing committee of any county, incorporated city, town and
taxing district or official auditor of any county or incorporated city,
such certified public accountant or registered public accountant or
fiscal auditing committee or official auditor of any county or incor-
porated city, as the case may be, shall report the results of his or
their audit to the State Auditor on such form or forms and in such
manner as the State Auditor may prescribe. This report shall be
made to the State Auditor within one hundred and twenty days after
the close of the fiscal year of the county, incorporated city or town
and taxing district. The State Auditor shall on or before the first
day of December in each year, and also at such other time or times
as may be desirable, make a full and detailed report in writing to
the Comptroller and to the Director of the State Fiscal Research
Bureau of the result of the examination of the books, accounts,
records and reports of each county, incorporated city or town and
taxing district, together with such suggestions as he may think
advisable to be made with respect to methods of bookkeeping, changes
in the uniform system of municipal financial reporting and changes
in the reports of said counties, incorporated cities or towns and
taxing districts situated within this State. It shall also be the duty
of the State Auditor to report all violations by any county, incor-
porated city or town and taxing district of the requirement and
provisions specified in the sections of this subtitle to the State
Comptroller.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved March 23, 1966.

CHAPTER 18
(Senate Bill 32)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 203 of
Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Supplement),
title "Chancery", subtitle "Uniform Absent Persons' Act", correct-
ing an error in the law concerning notices required under the
Uniform Absent Persons' Act.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 203 of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Supplement), title "Chancery", subtitle "Uniform Absent Per-
sons' Act", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

203.

All notices required under this subtitle shall be served upon all
parties ordered by the court to be served in the manner prescribed
by existing statutes or rules, except that in addition thereto the