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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 255

34.

(A)  THE STATE PROSECUTOR SHALL

(1)     SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF § 33B OF
THIS ARTICLE, PROSECUTE ALL CRIMINAL CASES IN THE COUNTY,
OR BALTIMORE CITY, AS THE CASE MAY BE, IN WHICH HE IS
ELECTED, OR IN A COUNTY OR BALTIMORE CITY TO WHICH THE
CASE MAY BE REMOVED;

(2)    DEFEND ON BEHALF OF THE STATE BEFORE THE
CIRCUIT COURT OR THE CRIMINAL COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY, AS
THE CASE MAY BE, APPLICATIONS FILED UNDER THE POST
CONVICTION PROCEDURE ACT;

(3)     DEFEND ON BEHALF OF THE STATE PETITIONS
FOR HABEAS CORPUS IN THE STATE COURTS; AND

(4)    PROSECUTE AND DEFEND, ON BEHALF OF THE
STATE, SUCH OTHER ACTIONS AND CASES AS PROVIDED BY LAW.

(B)     ALL REFERENCES IN ANY LAW, ORDINANCE, RULE,
REGULATION, ORDER, OR OTHER DOCUMENT TO THE STATE'S
ATTORNEY SHALL BE DEEMED TO REFER TO THE STATE
PROSECUTOR.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
35, 36 and 37 of Article 10 — Attorneys at Law and
Attorneys in Fact of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 10 — Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

35.

[The State's attorney for each county and the City
of Baltimore] EACH STATE PROSECUTOR shall annually give a
corporate surety bond payable to the State of Maryland in
the penal sum of [five thousand dollars ($5,000.00)]
$5,000, with condition that he faithfully perform the
duties of [said] HIS office and account for all funds and
property received under color of [said] HIS office.
[Such] THE bond shall be deposited with the State
Comptroller and the premiums [thereof] ON IT shall be
part of the expense of the office of the [State's
attorney] STATE PROSECUTOR.

36.

[He] THE STATE PROSECUTOR shall, ex officio, on the
application of the sheriff of his county or city, order