HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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to adults, and on and after January 1, 1974 all Maryland
recipients of assistance payments from the federal Supplemental
Security Income Program under Title XVI of the Social Security
Act. Provided that any persons legally responsible for the
support of the decedent are unable to pay the expenses, and that
other resources, including available death benefits or the estate
of the decedent, are insufficient to pay the funeral expenses.
The cost of the payment shall be charged [two thirds] to State
funds [and one third to local funds].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 303

(House Bill 414)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - Sheriff's Office Deputy Sheriffs -
Oaths or Affirmations

FOR the purpose of requiring that in St. Mary's County, every
deputy sheriff or sheriff take and subscribe a specified
oath or affirmation; and generally relating to oaths or
affirmations by deputy sheriffs or sheriffs in St. Mary's
County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 2-104

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

2-104.

(a) Every auditor, clerk, sheriff, constable, commissioner,
surveyor, or other officer before he assumes the duties of his
office, shall take and sign the oath or affirmation prescribed by
the Constitution.