HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  2815

Section 3(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 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 25 - County Commissioners

3.

(a) (1) The county commissioners of each county in
this State, in addition to, but not in substitution of, the
powers which have been or may be granted them, have the
following express powers.

(f) To establish a merit system in connection with the
appointment of all county officials and employees not
elected or appointed under the Constitution or public
general laws of the State. This subsection shall be
applicable in Dorchester, SOMERSET, and Queen Anne's
counties[, and the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County shall have the powers provided herein]. In Dorchester
County, the County Commissioners additionally shall have the
power and authority to include in the county's merit system
the employees of the Dorchester County liquor control board,
the Dorchester County Sheriff's department, and the
Dorchester County Sanitary District.

The County Commissioners of Garrett County shall
institute a merit system for all county employees pursuant
to the final reports and recommendations of the merit system
commission and governmental study commission of Garrett
County, the system to be effective as of January 1, 1972.

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

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 376
(House Bill 856)
AN ACT concerning

Mass Transit Administration Police Force