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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 30

CHAPTER 30

(Senate Bill 829)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Board of Public Safety

FOR the purpose of altering the method of appointing members
of the Board of Public Safety of Charles County;
altering the number of years each member serves; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 378(c)(1)

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1977 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 9 - Charles County

378.

(c) (1) The Board of Public Safety is composed of
three members, all of whom are residents of Charles County
for two years prior to their membership. One of the members
is one of the County Commissioners [of Charles County]
appointed by the [Board] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS [,]; the
second is appointed by the [Circuit Court Judge from Charles
County] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND MAY NOT BE AN ELECTED
OFFICIAL; and the third is appointed by a majority of the
representatives of Charles County to the State legislature.
[If any names submitted are rejected, the County
Commissioners shall submit additional lists of names.] The
members of the Board shall serve for [six] 3 years, except
that the member [from the Board of] WHO ALSO SERVES AS A
County [Commissioners] COMMISSIONER shall serve from the
time of his appointment until the following election for the
[Board of] County Commissioners.

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

Approved April 14, 1981.