HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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therein described, for consumption on the premises or
elsewhere. The annual fee for such a license shall be
[sixty dollars ($60.00)] $60, and shall be payable to said
clerk, before any such license is issued, for distribution
as herein provided.

(O) IN ST. MARY'S COUNTY THE ANNUAL FEE FOR SUCH A
LICENSE SHALL BE $300.

[(o)] (P) This section shall not apply to Allegany,
Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Garrett, Howard, Queen
Anne's, [St. Mary's,] Somerset, and Talbot counties, in all
of which jurisdictions such licenses shall not be issued.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 237

(House Bill 1580)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Public Ethics Law

FOR the purpose of clarifying certain language and
correcting certain errors in the Maryland Public Ethics
Law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

Section 3-103, 5-103, and 5-106

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

3-103.

(a) An official or employee, except a member of the
General Assembly, may not be employed by, or have an
interest in, any entity subject to the authority of that
official or employee or of the government agency with which
he is affiliated or [by] any entity which is negotiating or
has entered a contract with that government agency. This