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"State's Attorney," to provide that the prohibition on the private
practice of law by the State's Attorney for Harford County shall
not be effective until January 1, 1975, and to clarify the language
therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 40(m) of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1970 Supplement), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in
Fact," subtitle "State's Attorney," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

40.

(m) In Harford County, (1) the State's Attorney's salary shall
be eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00) per annum. [The]
Beginning as of January 1, 1975, the State's Attorney, during his
term in office, shall not, except in connection with and in the per-
formance of his duties as such State's Attorney, appear as counsel
or represent any party professionally before any court, magistrate,
board, commission or agency of this State or any county or political
subdivision of this State; [It] it is intended by the provisions
[herein] of this sentence that the State's Attorney shall not engage
in the private practice of law in any manner whatsoever following
January 1, 1975.

(2)    The State's Attorney, with the approval of the judge of the
Circuit Court for the county, may appoint a deputy State's attorney;
and he may appoint such number of assistant State's Attorneys and
other staff personnel as may be approved by the Board of County
Commissioners from time to time. All such appointees shall serve
at the State's Attorney's pleasure. The salaries and compensation
of such persons shall be as approved by the Board of County Com-
missioners from time to time, except that the salary of the deputy
State's attorney shall not be less than six thousand dollars ($6,000.)
yearly. The deputy State's attorney and the assistant State's
attorneys shall have the same legal powers as the State's Attorney to
represent the State before grand juries and in the trial of criminal
proceedings.

(3)    The Board of County Commissioners shall pay all reasonable
expenses for the conduct of the office of State's Attorney.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 12, 1971.

CHAPTER 4
(House Bill 1354)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 98(c) of
Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume) (1970 Supplement), title "Work, Labor and Equipment,