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CHAPTER 19
(Senate Bill 200)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 461C of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Harford County (1965 Edition,
being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Harford County", subtitle "Public Defender", as said section
and subtitle were enacted by Chapter 623 of the Acts of 1966,
amending the local laws concerning the public defender of Harford
County in order to specify additional duties for this official and
correcting an error in this section.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 461C of the Code of Public Local Laws of Harford
County (1965 Edition, being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Harford County", subtitle "Public De-
fender", as said section and subtitle were enacted by Chapter 623 of
the Acts of 1966, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

461C.

The public defender shall perform the following duties:

Upon request of a defendant and upon order of the court, he shall
defend, at all stages of the proceedings, without expense to the
defendant, any person who is not financially able to employ counsel
and who is charged with the commission of any contempt [of] or
offense triable in the Circuit Court for Harford County. Also, he shall
defend or give advice and counsel to persons who are not financially
able to employ counsel and who are involved in proceedings under
the law concerning defective delinquents in Article 31B of the Anno-
tated Code, the post conviction laws in the subtitle "Post Correction
Procedure" in Article 27 of the Annotated Code, or the laws con-
cerning juveniles in the subtitle "Juvenile Causes" in Article 26 of
the Annotated Code. The public defender shall, upon request, give
counsel and advice to such person about any such proceedings or
about any charge against him upon which the public defender is
conducting the defense, and shall prosecute all appeals to a higher
court or courts of any person who has been convicted, where, in his
opinion, the appeal will or might reasonably be expected to result
in the reversal or modification of the judgment of conviction.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved March 24, 1967.

CHAPTER 20
(Senate Bill 225)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 182 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Harford County (1965 Edition),