HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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office. THE COMMISSION MAY RECOMMEND TO THE SECRETARY THE
REMOVAL OF THE FIRE MARSHAL FOR CAUSE. Prior to removal, he
shall be given timely notice by the [Commission] SECRETARY
with a statement of the charges against him with an
opportunity in person or by counsel for a public hearing
thereon. The State Fire Marshal shall receive the salary
provided in the State budget. The State Fire [Marshall]
MARSHAL shall be appointed in accordance with the following
qualifications: (1) graduation from an accredited college or
university, with specialized study in either the field of
fire protection or engineering, and (2) five years of recent
progressively responsible experience in fire prevention
inspection, fire investigation, fire safety promotion, fire
protection engineering, teaching fire safety engineering, or
fire fighting, three years of which must have been at the
administrative level.

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

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 698

(House Bill 1301)

AN ACT concerning

Industrial Revenue Bonds - Recordation Tax

FOR the purpose of providing that the recordation tax
applies to all authorizing any local governing body, by
ordinance or resolution, to apply the recordation tax
to the conveyance of properties funded in any part
through the issuance of certain bonds, even if the
conveyance is to a political subdivision or would
otherwise have been exempt from the recordation tax;
and requiring any local governing body so applying the
recordation tax to apply it uniformly to those
conveyances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes

Section 277(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 512 of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1981)