HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3537

House Bill No. 640

AN ACT concerning

Register of Wills - Salary

FOR the purpose of altering the maximum salary that may be
received by each Register of Wills; and clarifying
eliminating certain unnecessary language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Estates and Trusts
Section 2-205(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Estates and Trusts

2-205.

(b) Each register is entitled to receive an annual
salary of not less than $6,000 and not more than [$25,000]
$45,000 $37,500, to be determined in each instance by the
Board of Public Works[, and the Board may raise this maximum
salary to $30,000]. In determining the annual salary of the
register, the Board of Public Works shall be guided in the
exercise of its discretion by

(1)  The population of the county determined by
the last official United States census;

(2)  The dollar volume of total fees and taxes
collected and excess fees turned over to the State for each
of the preceding five years by the office of the register
for which the salary is being fixed; and

(3)  Other pertinent data which have relation to
the reasonableness of the salary in relation to the work
done and volume handled by the office.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

May 19, 1981