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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 167

such delinquent taxpayer thereafter, until the lien is fully
satisfied or released, shall be promptly paid to the
Comptroller by such employer or such paymaster. The
Comptroller shall notify such employer or such paymaster as
soon as the lien has been satisfied or released. Every
employer, and every paymaster who is personally served with
any notice of lien, shall be personally liable to the State
for any sums which he shall pay or cause to be paid to any
employee named in any notice of lien received or refused by
said employer, or served upon said paymaster, except as
herein provided, and such liability shall be several, to the
end that the State may, at its election, proceed against the
paymaster or the employer, or both, provided, that the total
sum recovered by the State shall not exceed the sum paid to
said employee in violation of this subsection. As used in
this subsection, the term "paymaster" shall mean any
officer, representative, agent or employee charged by his
employer with the duty of paying any salary, wages, hire,
remuneration or other compensation to any employee of said
employer named in any notice of lien and shall include,
also, any employee of the federal government, its agencies
or instrumentalities, designated to keep and maintain in a
local office or branch of said federal government agency or
instrumentality established in this State, a record of
employed personnel, and who is or may be charged with
receiving and distributing the payroll or pay checks to the
employed personnel, regardless of where the actual payroll
records are kept and the payroll is prepared. Any employer
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or
imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or be both
fined and imprisoned.

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

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 168

(House Bill 596)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Animal Bite Reporting
and Control Procedures

FOR the purpose of transferring from the sheriff's
department to the Animal Control Center in Frederick
County the responsibility for receiving reports of
animal bites and for notifying the local health
department of the reports; providing for the