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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 255

(a) No commissioner may:

(1) Decide or participate in a decision in which he
has a financial interest, whether as owner, member, partner,
officer, employee, stockholder, or other participant of or in any
private business or professional enterprise, that will be
affected by such decision, nor may a commissioner knowingly
participate in a decision affecting the financial interest of a
person related to him or his spouse, father, mother, brother,
sister, or child, jointly or severally. This [subparagraph]
PARAGRAPH may not be construed to prohibit a commissioner from
having or holding private investment, business, or professional
interests, but shall be construed to apply when these interests
are or reasonably may be in conflict with the proper performance
of duty by the commissioner. These interests shall be presumed
to be in conflict with the proper performance of duty by the
commissioner when the commissioner or his spouse, father, mother,
brother, sister or child, jointly or severally, owns a total of
more than three percent of the invested capital or capital stock
of any groups, firms, corporations, or associations involved in
the decision being made by the commissioner or his commission or
receives a total combined compensation of more than $5,000 per
year from any individual, groups, firms, corporations, or
associations involved in the decision being made by the
commissioner or his commission. The prohibition does not apply
to or include an interest or investment in land geographically
remote from the land involved in the decision, the ownership of a
recorded single family lot on which the member actually resides,
or a possibility of reverter, a mortgage, or other security
interest in which the real property in interest is not as
otherwise defined in this [subparagraph] PARAGRAPH.

2-118.

(a) (1) For each fiscal year, beginning on July 1 and
ending on June 30 of the subsequent year, the Commission shall
prepare an annual capital and operating budget which shall
contain, separately for each county where items are so allocable
for which a tax is levied, the proposed expenditures and
estimates of revenue anticipated. The proposed budget shall be
established as hereinafter set forth. The Commission's budget
shall include for each county within the regional district a
complete planning work program including a schedule for the
production of all plans and amendments, hereinafter called the
planning schedule of the Commission. The. budget shall contain
items allocable to both counties including provisions for the
operation of the departments of the Commission established
pursuant to law and the regional planning program. The budget
shall also contain a schedule of recreation activities and
programs for Prince George's County in accordance with § 5-207 OF
THIS ARTICLE.

(4) Each county council shall, upon public notice,
hold a public hearing on the proposed budget of the Commission
commencing not earlier than 21 days following receipt thereof