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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 513

(4) If any person who has filed a statement
pursuant to this subsection (c) is not appointed, the
appropriate county council and chief administrative officer
shall return to that person his statement and all copies
thereof within 15 days after the date on which the
appointment or appointments to the commission have become
final. The statement of any applicant approved for
appointment shall be forwarded by the chief administrative
officer of the county involved to the Secretary of State and
to the executive director of tie commission to which the
applicant has been appointed.

(d)   Commissioners filing statements under another law.
— Any commissioner of the Washington Suburban Transit
Commission appointed from Montgomery County or Prince
George's County, who holds other public office and is
required to file disclosure statements under the terms of
any other State or local law, may comply with the terms of
this section by filing copies of any statements filed under
other provisions of law, amended to include any additional
information required hereunder.

(e)   Public inspection of statements; retention as
public records. — All statements filed pursuant to
subsection (b) and of those applicants approved pursuant to
subsection (c) shall be maintained by the Secretary of
State, the executive director of the commission, and the
appropriate chief administrative officer and shall be made
available by them, during normal office hours, for
examination and copying by the public, subject, however, to
such reasonable fees and administrative procedures as the
Secretary of state, the executive director, and the
appropriate chief administrative officer may establish from
time to time. All statements shall be retained by the
Secretary of state as public records for at least two years
from the date of their receipt and shall be retained by the
executive director of the commission and by the appropriate
chief administrative officer for the entire term of office
of the commissioner.

(f)   Forms. — The executive director of the commission
shall provide the forms for use in filing the statements set
forth in subsection (a), and shall make such forms available
in the office of the executive director of the commission as
well as provide sufficient copies of such forms to the chief
administrative officers of Montgomery and Prince George's
counties for use by applicants and commissioners. The forms
provided shall, in all respects, replicate the provisions of
the forms provided pursuant to § 29—4, excepting those
modifications required pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section.

(g)   Information from person examining or copying
statements. — The Secretary of State, the executive
director of the commission, and the chief administrative
officers shall require that any person examining or copying
such statements shall record his name, home address, and the