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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 311

Administrative Departments
231H.

(a) Neither the Secretary of General Services nor any
employee of the Department of General Services shall be
interested in or in any manner connected with, directly or
indirectly, any contract or bid for furnishing materials,
supplies or equipment to any of the using authorities. Neither
shall the Secretary or any employee of the Department accept or
receive from any person to whom any contract may be awarded,
directly or indirectly, by rebate, gift or otherwise, any money
or things of value whatsoever, or any promise, obligation or
contract for future reward or compensation for any such party.
If the Secretary or any employee of the Department shall violate
any provision of this section, he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than
$1,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, in
the discretion of the court.

(b) All contracts for printing for the State or for any
using authority, [including the General Assembly of Maryland,]
with the exception of PRINTING FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS
STAFF AGENCIES, PRINTING OF records and briefs for the State Law
Department, and [the] printing of the Maryland Reports AS
authorized in §§ 13-201 through 13-204 of the Courts Article of
the Code, shall be made through or with the approval of the
Secretary of General Services.

[(c) On or before September 1st prior to the reconvening of
each session of the General Assembly, the Secretary of General
Services shall obtain from the President and Secretary of the
Senate, and from the Speaker and Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates, estimates of materials, supplies and equipment needed
during the session; and the Secretary shall contract for the
purchase of such supplies and equipment, including all printing
needed by the General Assembly.

(d) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of General
Services to report his action in regard to materials, supplies
and equipment for the General Assembly to the presiding officer
of each house on the first day of session.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
2-1505 of Article - State Government, of the Annotated Code of

Maryland (as enacted by Chapter___(S.B. 50) of the Acts of the

General Assembly of 1984) be renumbered to be Section(s) 2-1506.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect October 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.