MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1577

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 586
(Senate Bill 506)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County — Deputy Sheriff's Merit System

FOR the purpose of establishing a merit system for deputy
sheriffs in Washington County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 2-309(w)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL   ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Section 2-309(w) of Article - Courts and

Judicial Proceedings, of the Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby

repealed and reenacted, with amendments,     to read as
follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

2-30 9.

(w) (1) The Sheriff of Washington County shall
receive a salary of $12,500. He may appoint an office
deputy at a salary set by the County Commissioners. He
may appoint the following additional employees who shall
receive not less than the salaries indicated: two
deputies—$2,400 and $50 per month each for the use of
their automobiles; one secretary—$1,800; a chief warden
of the jail—$2,400; an assistant warden—$2,100; an
attorney to the Sheriff—$600; and a cook—$1,800;
additional special deputies—same salary as deputies.
Salaries set by this section, except the sheriff's salary
are minimum salaries and may be increased from time to
time by the County Commissioners.

(2) ANY DEPUTY SHERIFF APPOINTED ACCORDING
TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE PLACED ON A PROBATIONARY STATUS
FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF HIS EMPLOYMENT, AND MAY BE
DISMISSED BY THE SHERIFF FOR ANY REASON DURING THAT
PROBATIONARY PERIOD. AT THE CONCLUSION OF TWELVE MONTHS