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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, That Section 2-87,
Chapter 2, title "Administration", of the Montgomery
County Code 1965, is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

2—87. Created; composition; interview; appointment
and term of members — Disclosure of interests.

a.   There is hereby created and established a
County Board of Appeals which shall consist of five
members who shall be appointed by the County Council
for three year terms; except that in appointing the
first County Board of Appeals, one member shall be
appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of
two years and the third for a term of three years.
Thereafter, all appointments or reappointments shall
be for three year terms; except, that an appointment
to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of a
term shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Prior to any appointment hereunder the Council shall
request the recommendation of the County Executive as
to any person or persons qualified for such
appointment; any such recommendation shall be made
within thirty days of Council request.

b.   Interview.

(1)    All applicants for appointment or
reappointment as members of the County Board of
Appeals shall be interviewed by the County Council or
its designated agent in private at 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 similar interest of the applicant's spouse,
father, mother, brother, sister or child. The County
Council may require the production of any document 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