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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 413

Article 40A - Maryland Public Ethics Law

6-203.

(a) (4) (i) Each applicant for appointment OR REAPPOINTMENT
as commissioner of the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission from Montgomery County shall file with the
Montgomery County Council and the chief administrative officer of
Montgomery County, no later than five days prior to the initial
date set for interview by the Council, the statement set forth in
paragraph (2), for the 12-month period ending 60 days before the
date initially set for the interview. Each applicant for
appointment as commissioner of the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission from Prince George's County shall file
with the Prince George's County Council and the chief
administrative officer of Prince George's County, no later than
five days prior to the initial date set for confirmation hearing
by the Council, the statement set forth in paragraph (2), for the
12-month period ending 60 days before the date initially set for
the interview.

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission

2-114.

(c) (1) [All applicants] THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL MAY
REQUIRE AN APPLICANT for appointment or reappointment as
[commissioners] COMMISSIONER of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission [shall] TO be interviewed by the
County Council or its designated agent in private as to any
possible or potential conflict of interest, AND AN APPLICANT
SHALL BE SO INTERVIEWED PRIOR TO BEING APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED.
[The] IN EACH SUCH INTERVIEW, THE applicant shall be questioned
under oath specifically on, but not limited to, all sources of
income, property holdings, business interests and financial
interests, as well as the similar [interest] INTERESTS of the
applicant's spouse, father, mother, brother, sister or child. The
County Council may require the production of any document it
wishes the applicant to produce. The interview shall be conducted
in a question and answer fashion, and a written transcript shall
be made of all questions and answers.

(2) When the testimony is fully transcribed the
transcript shall be submitted to the applicant for examination
and shall be read to or by him, unless the SUBMISSION,
examination and reading are waived by him. UNLESS THE
SUBMISSION, EXAMINATION AND READING OF THE TRANSCRIPT HAVE BEEN
WAIVED BY THE APPLICANT:

(I) Any changes which the applicant desires to
make shall be entered upon the transcript by the officer
transcribing it with a statement of the reason given by the
applicant for making them[.]; AND