Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1821

or [his] its designated agent in private as to any possible or potential
conflict of interests. The applicant shall be questioned under oath
specifically on, but not limited to, all sources of income, property
holdings, business interests and financial interests, as well as the simi-
lar interest of the applicant's spouse, father, mother, brother, sis-
ter or child. The County [Executive] Council may require the pro-
ductions of any document [he] it wishes the applicant to produce.
The interview shall be conducted in a question and answer fashion,
and a written transcript shall be made of all such questions and
answers.

(2)    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 statement 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.

(3)    There shall be a public disclosure by the County [Executive]
Council of the complete transcribed testimony of the actual appointee
or appointees three weeks from the date of his or her appointment;
and the complete transcript of all other applicants shall be destroyed
by the County [Executive] Council immediately without disclosure
of any information contained therein to anyone.

(4)    Annually, on or before June 1 of each year, the appointee
shall disclose, in writing, to the County [Executive] Council all in-
formation available to update and make current his business and
financial interests and property holdings in the State of Maryland
and the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area, as well as informa-
tion available to him concerning the business and financial interests
and property holdings of the appointee's spouse, father, mother,
brother, sister or child, and there shall be complete public disclosure
by the County [Executive] Council of the information so received.
The County [Executive] Council may require substantiation and
additional information wherever [no he] it shall determine it neces-
sary.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 31, 1972.

CHAPTER 724
(House Bill 1135)

AN ACT to add new Section 401A to Article 21 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Talbot County,"
to follow immediately after Section 401 thereof, and to be under
the new subtitle "Real Property," providing that any real property