716                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [Ch. 62

CHAPTER 62
(House Bill 570)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City — Supervisory Deputy Sheriffs

FOR the purpose of altering the number of Supervisory
Deputy Sheriffs in Baltimore City; and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 2-309(d)(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 2-309(d) (1) of Article - Courts
and Judicial Proceedings, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

2-30 9.

(d) (1) In Baltimore City, the Sheriff shall
receive a salary of $20,000. However, if the maximum
annual salary received by the clerks of each of the law
and criminal and equity courts of Baltimore City is less
than $20,000, the Sheriff shall receive the same amount
received by the clerks. He shall appoint an undersheriff
and chief deputy sheriff, [two] THREE supervisory deputy
sheriffs, one deputy sheriff writ clerk and four
assistant deputy sheriff writ clerks, one stenographer
and docket clerk, two clerks and 51 deputy sheriffs.
Salaries for these employees shall be set by the
Secretary of Personnel. A deputy sheriff who uses his
personal automobile is entitled to a monthly automobile
allowance at the same rate paid to other state employees.
Any sheriff who is assigned a city—owned automobile
[shall] MAY not receive the monthly automobile expense
allowance. They shall also have assistants at the
compensation provided for in the annual ordinance of
estimates of Baltimore City. Provision shall also be
made in the ordinance for the expenses of the office of
the Sheriff, including the purchase and maintenance of