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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
1831
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 2-309(p)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1980 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
2-309.
(p) (1) The Sheriff of Kent County shall receive a
salary of [$15,000 and] $20,000, AN ANNUAL COST-OF-LIVING
INCREASE, AND, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, county-owned automobiles as may be necessary
to operate the Sheriff's department [to be provided by the
County Commissioners at their discretion]. The Sheriff
shall appoint a chief deputy sheriff who shall receive a
salary of at least $8,000. He also may appoint not more
than two assistant deputies who shall receive salaries of at
least $7,000. The Sheriff and his deputies shall receive an
allowance set by the County Commissioners for mileage
traveled in the course of their duties. It shall be paid at
the same rate as other county officials and employees are
paid. They shall also be paid any additional allowances as
the Commissioners may deem necessary.
(2) The County Commissioners shall provide the
Sheriff with funds to compensate a matron and a cook at the
county jail.
(3) The County Commissioners may authorize
additional deputies as necessary and shall set their
compensation at the time of their appointment.
(4) The County Commissioners may authorize the
Sheriff to appoint as part-time deputies persons employed in
specific plants, schools, hospitals, institutions, business
enterprises, and land development tracts situated within
Kent County who are limited to service only within the
particular facility where they are employed, and who may not
be compensated by Kent County for their services.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
may not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of the
Sheriff of Kent County in office on the effective date of
this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the
salary of the Sheriff of Kent County shall take effect at
the beginning of the next following term of office.
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