BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

1203

CHAPTER 186

(Senate Bill 34)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore County - State's Attorney

FOR the purpose of changing the salary of the State's
Attorney for Baltimore County; and changing the salary
for the deputy and certain assistant State's attorneys;

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 — Attorneys at Law and

Attorneys in Fact
Section 40(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 10 — Attorneys at Law and Attorneys
in Fact

40.

(d) In Baltimore County, (1) [beginning with the term
of the State's Attorney who is elected to that position in
1970, the State's Attorney's salary is $22,500 annually.
Subject] SUBJECT to the provisions of Article III, §35 of
the Constitution of Maryland, and beginning with the term of
the State's Attorney who is elected to that position in
[1974] 1978, the State's Attorney's salary [is $35,000
annually] SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE SALARY OF A CIRCUIT JUDGE OF
THE EIGHT JUDICIAL CIRCUITS. The State's Attorney shall
serve full time and may not engage in the private practice
of law.

(2)        The State's Attorney shall appoint two
deputy State's attorneys, each to have an annual salary of
not more than [$30,000] $36,000; one of these deputy
State's attorneys shall be designated deputy State's
attorney of trial and administration, and the other deputy
State's attorney shall be designated deputy State's attorney
of operations. The deputy State's attorneys are to perform
such work as the State's Attorney may require, shall serve
full time, and may not engage in the private practice of
law.

(3)         The State's Attorney of Baltimore County
may appoint [33] 36 33 assistant State's attorneys. The
salary of the assistant State's attorneys may not be more
than $24,000 annually as the State's Attorney may determine.