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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 690

CHAPTER 690

(House Bill 2051)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - State's Attorney

FOR the purpose of altering certain restrictions on the
practice of law by the State's Attorney for St. Mary's
County; prohibiting the State's Attorney from appearing
at certain proceedings; permitting the State's Attorney
to engage in the private practice of law under certain
circumstances; and generally relating to the practice
of law by the State's Attorney for St. Mary's County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40(s)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

40.

(s) (1) (I) In St. Mary's County the State's
Attorney's salary is $28,000 per year. During his term of
office, the State's Attorney may not appear as counsel or
represent any party professionally IN A TRIAL OR HEARING
before any court, board, commission or agency OF ST. MARY'S
COUNTY OR of this State SITTING IN OR CONVENED IN ST. MARY'S
COUNTY [or any county or political subdivision of this
State], except in connection with and in the performance of
his duties as the State's Attorney. [The intent of these
provisions is that the State's Attorney not engage in the
private practice of law in any matter whatsoever.]

(II) THE STATE'S ATTORNEY MAY ENGAGE IN
THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS IN
THIS SUBSECTION, AND SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTION THAT THE
STATE'S ATTORNEY MAY NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OTHER
ATTORNEYS IN ANY PARTNERSHIP OR PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION,
BUT MUST BE A SOLO SOLE PRACTITIONER. HE MAY NOT ENGAGE IN
THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW EXCEPT AS TO:

1.  WILLS AND ESTATES.

2.  TITLE WORK AND SETTLEMENTS.