Marvin Mandel, Governor                         855

(1968 Replacement Volume and 1971 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is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as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.

(d) In Baltimore County, (1) [the State's Attorney's salary is
not less than eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) annually during
the term of the State's Attorney elected to that position in the
month of November, 1966. At the beginning of] beginning with the
term of the State's Attorney who is elected to that position in 1970,
the State's Attorney's salary shall be twenty-two thousand five hun-
dred dollars ($22,500.00) annually. Beginning with the term of the
State's Attorney who is elected to that position in 1974, the State's
Attorney's salary shall be not less than twenty-two thousand five
hundred dollars ($22,500.00) annually.

(2)    The State's Attorney shall appoint [a deputy State's attor-
ney with a salary of not more than seventeen thousand five hundred
dollars ($17,500.00) annually; the deputy State's attorney is to per-
form such work as the State's Attorney may require.] two deputy
State's attorneys each to have an annual salary of not more than
eighteen thousand five hundred dollars ($18,500.00); one of these
deputy State's attorneys shall be designated Deputy State's Attorney
of Trial and Administration, and the other deputy State's attorney
shall be designated Deputy State's Attorney of Operations. The
deputy State's attorneys are to perform such work as the State's
Attorney may require.

(3)    The State's Attorney of Baltimore County may appoint [sev-
enteen (17)] twenty-six (26) assistant State's attorneys. The salary
of the assistant State's attorneys shall be not less than nine thousand
five hundred dollars ($9,500) nor more than fifteen thousand dollars
($15,000) annually as the State's Attorney may determine. The
State's Attorney may, however, designate four (4) of the [seven-
teen] twenty-six (26) assistants as full-time assistant State's attor-
neys at a salary of not less than seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000)
nor more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) annually as the
State's Attorney may determine. The four assistants designated as
full-time assistant State's attorneys shall not engage in the private
practice of law.

(4)    The State's Attorney may appoint such clerical, adminis-
trative and other assistants as in his judgment may be necessary for
the proper conduct of his office, at such compensation as he may
deem proper, to be paid by the county on the certification of the
State's Attorney. Such clerical, administrative and other assistants
shall perform clerical and other work as directed by the State's
Attorney.

(5)    The deputy State's [attorney] attorneys 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.

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

Approved May 5, 1972.