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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

with a subpoena issued by the Legislative Policy Committee,
or any standing committee as permitted by this section, or
if any witness fails to testify on any matters on which the
person may be lawfully interrogated, the circuit court of
any county, [or an appropriate court of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City,] on application of a member of the
committee, shall compel obedience by proceedings for
contempt. False swearing by any witness before the
Legislative Policy Committee or any standing committee
constitutes and is punishable as perjury.

85.

(b) An investigating committee may, by majority vote
of all of its members, apply to the General Assembly or the
house thereof by which it was established for a contempt
citation. The application may be considered as though the
alleged contempt had been committed in or against such house
or the General Assembly itself. If the investigating
committee is an interim committee, its application shall be
made to the circuit court for any county [or any judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City].

Article 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

1-201.

(aa) "Public official" means:

(3) Any individual in the judicial branch of
government, including an individual employed in the office
of a clerk of court, or paid by a political subdivision to
perform services in any orphans' court, a circuit court for
a county, [the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City or one of its
courts,} and any individual employed by the Attorney
Grievance Commission, the State Board of Law Examiners, or
the Standing Committee on Rules who:

(i) Is classified or compensated at State
grade level 18 or above; and

(ii) Is not a judge, master, commissioner,
examiner, auditor, or referee.

(dd) "State official" means a member or member-elect
of the General Assembly, a judge or judge-elect of a court
created by Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution and a
person defined in Rule 11 of Maryland Rule No. 1232 or a
constitutional officer or officer-elect in an executive
agency of the State government. State official also means a
person holding office as State's Attorney, clerk of the
circuit court for each county [or of a court of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City], register of wills, and sheriff.

7-101.