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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 203

COUNTY. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT A
REIMBURSEMENT VOUCHER FOR EACH EXCURSION, SIGNED BY 3 OF THE
5 COMMISSIONERS. EACH COUNTY COMMISSIONER also shall receive
mileage and expenses relating to out of County trips.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 204

(House Bill 1020)

AN ACT concerning

Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights

FOR the purpose of providing that the law enforcement
officers' bill of rights does not apply to an officer a

police chief who serves at the pleasure of the

appointing authority of any incorporated city or town.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 727(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

727.

(c) "Law-enforcement officer" does not include an
officer serving in a probationary status except when
allegations of brutality in the execution of his or her
duties are made involving an officer who is in a
probationary status. The provisions of this subtitle do not
apply to persons serving at the pleasure of the police
commissioner of Baltimore City or the appointing authority
of a charter county OR THE TO A POLICE CHIEF OF ANY
INCORPORATED CITY OR TOWN. The term "probationary status"
includes only an officer who is in that status upon initial
entry into the Department.