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the State's Attorney and shall pay the expenses of the
office, including general operating expenses, cost of
equipment, and reasonable costs for secretarial or
stenographic needs, or in lieu of providing said space and
expenses, shall pay over to the State's Attorney a
reasonable allowance to be determined by the County
Commissioners from time to time to reimburse the State's
Attorney for the costs of his providing the same for the
operation of his office. The State's Attorney may appoint a
deputy State's attorney. The deputy State's attorney's
annual salary shall be set by the State's Attorney, subject
to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners. The
State's Attorney may appoint assistant State's attorneys, as
necessary to properly staff his offices, at salaries set by
the State's Attorney, subject to the approval of the Board
of County Commissioners. [The State's Attorney, the deputy
State's attorney, and the assistant State's attorneys shall
not be precluded from the private practice of law.]

(2) At such time as both the State's Attorney and
the resident judge of the Circuit Court for Carroll County
deem it to be necessary, the State's Attorney, with the
approval of the resident judge, nay appoint an assistant
State's attorney. The assistant State's attorney shall be
paid such salary as shall be fixed by the County
Commissioners from time to time.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
may not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of the
State's Attorney in office on the effective date of this
Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the salary of
the State's Attorney shall take effect at the beginning of
the next following term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978..

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 162

(House Bill 1513)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset County - Electric Lighting Districts

FOR the purpose of permitting the cost of electric lighting
provided by an electric lighting district in Somerset
County to be paid by a tax levied equally on all
parcels of improved property in the district; and
clarifying language.