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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact
Section 40(n)
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 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact
40.
(n) (1) The State's Attorney's salary shall be equal
to the salary of the District Court judges of the trial
courts of general jurisdiction of the eight judicial
circuits in the State. He may not engage in the private
practice of law.
(2) The State's Attorney may appoint a deputy
State's attorney, whose salary shall be set by the county
executive with the approval of the County Council, at not
less than $6,000.00 annually.
(3) The State's Attorney may appoint such
assistant State's attorneys as may be authorized by the
county executive and whose salaries shall be set by the
county executive with the approval of the County Council.
The deputy and assistant State's attorneys shall serve at
the pleasure of the State's Attorney and have the same legal
power as the State's Attorney to represent the State before
the grand jury and at. the trial of criminal proceedings.
(4) The State's Attorney may appoint an
administrative assistant who is authorized and empowered to
collect and distribute moneys payable for the support of
dependents under orders issuing from the several courts of
this State, or any other state, and to retain two percent of
any moneys so collected to be paid to the County Council for
Howard County to defray the costs of this service. The
administrative assistant's salary shall be set by the county
executive with the approval of the County Council.
(5) The county auditor shall, not later than
three months after the close of each fiscal year, examine
the books and accounts of the State's Attorney and prepare
and submit to the County Council and to the county executive
a complete financial audit for the preceding fiscal year.
This report shall be included in the annual audit required
by § 40 of Article 19 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
Special audits may be ordered at any time by the County
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