BALTIMORE COUNTY                               2033

Sec. 535. Functions and duties of the department of traffic engineering.
The department of traffic engineering shall be responsible for traffic
safety and engineering and shall have and perform such other duties and
functions as may from time to time be assigned thereto by directive of the
county administrative officer or by legislative act of the county council.

Sec. 801. County council to establish and maintain merit system; com-
position of exempt service.

At its first annual legislative session after the effective date of this
Charter, the county council shall enact a county personnel law establishing
a merit system of personnel administration. The county personnel law
shall provide for the division of all employees in the county government
into the classified and the exempt service, the latter to consist of: (1) all
elected officials, (2) the county administrative officer, the zoning commis-
sioner and his deputy, the director of planning, the heads of all offices
and departments, [and the heads of the police, fire] and civil defense
bureau[s], (3) all employees of the department of education and all em-
ployees covered by the state merit system, (4) the members of the appeal
tax court and all boards and commissions (except otherwise classified
employees serving thereon ex officio), (5) all professional consultants
performing temporary or part-time services, (6) all attorneys at law,
(7) not more than one confidential clerk or private secretary for the county
executive, nor more than one for the county administrative officer, (8) the
county auditor and (9) such seasonal or occasional employees and such
non-supervisory employees paid on an hourly basis as may be specifically
exempted from the effect of the county personnel law or from the plans,
rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 541 of
the Baltimore County Charter be and it is hereby proposed to be renum-
bered to Section 543 and that Subdivisions 9 and 10 and new Sections 541
and 542 be and they are hereby proposed to be added to Division 3. De-
partments in the Administrative Services, under Article V of the Balti-
more County Charter, all to read as follows, if adopted by the voters of
Baltimore County, Maryland

Subdivision 9. Police Department.

Sec. 541. Chief of Police.

The police department shall be administered by the chief of police of
Baltimore County, who shall also be responsible for the administration of
the affairs of the jail bureau and the bureau of civil defense, and who shall
have and perform such other duties and functions as may from time to
time be assigned thereto by directive of the county administrative officer
or by legislative act of the county council.

Subdivision 10. Fire Department.

Section 542. Fire Chief

The fire department shall be administered by the fire chief of Balti-
more County, who shall be responsible for the administration of the fire
department and shall have and perform such other duties and functions
as may, from ti