MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 383

CLERICAL PERSONNEL IS NOT LIMITED BY ANY PROVISION OF
THIS SECTION.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section presently appears as
Art. 26, §42A, slightly recast to follow
generally the form of §13-101. The
prohibition against the practice of law has
been modified by the phrase "directly or
indirectly", to conform to §13-101(c). The
prohibition against the practice of law is
made absolute, as in §13—101(c). Present law
permits practice with consent of the judges,
but the judges have unanimously agreed to the
change.

References to the Prince George's County
Council and to the county commissioners have
generally been replaced by a reference to the
county government of the appropriate county,
or simply to the county itself. This will
avoid the necessity of future amendment if
the name of the county's governing body is
changed.

Ch. 481, Acts of 1972 (SB 941) enacted a
new Art. 26, §42A (the former §42A having
been superseded by Ch. 1200, Maryland Rules).
Sec. 42A, as contained in Ch. 481, is
identical to §42B as printed in the 1971
cumulative supplement to the Code, including
the repetition of at least one typographical
error and some improper nomenclature.
However, §42B was not expressly repealed.

Sec. 42B was enacted by Ch. 273, Acts of
1967. Sec. 3 of that Act provided that it
should "remain effective until the effective
date of any rules or regulations which may be
... adopted by the Court of Appeals
pertaining to the administration of the
respective circuit courts of Maryland, and on
said date, with no further action required by
the General Assembly, this act shall be
repealed .....". Probably, it was feared that
§42B was repealed by the adoption of Ch.
1200, Maryland Rules.

In any event, the adoption of these rules
superseded anything inconsistent in §42B.
The major area of inconsistency would seem to
be that the rules vest certain administrative