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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 592

CONJUNCTION WITH PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES THAT WILL
DISTURB THE VEGETATION AND TOPSOIL OF STATE LAND. If the
Bureau's failure to issue, extend or renew a permit
involves taking a property right without just
compensation in violation of the Constitution of the
United States or the Constitution of Maryland and the
General Assembly has not appropriated sufficient funds to
pay the compensation, the State may use available funds
under Program Open Space to purchase or otherwise pay for
the property rights.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 593

(Senate Bill 604)

AN ACT concerning

State Police — Salaries

FOR the purpose of providing that truck patrolmen shall
be compensated at a certain pay grade.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88B - State Police

Section 22 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 22(a) of Article 88B - State
Police, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 88B - State Police

22.

(a) From and after July 1, 1974, all police
employees of the Maryland State Police shall receive such
salary, including any increment based upon length of
service, as set forth in a salary plan proposed by the
Superintendent of Maryland State Police and the Secretary
of Public Safety and Correctional Services and approved