HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     2439

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

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 450

(House Bill 1480)

AN ACT concerning

State's Attorney - Harford County - Employees

FOR the purpose of permitting the State's Attorney in Harford
County to appoint a secretary or clerical assistant and
employ certain other personnel as the State's Attorney deems
necessary for the proper conduct of the State's Attorney's
office; providing for the salaries and benefits for these
employees; and generally relating to the employees of the
State's Attorney's Office in Harford County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40(m)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 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 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

40.

(m) In Harford County, (1) the State's Attorney's salary is
$42,000. Beginning as of January 1, 1975, the State's Attorney,
during his term in office, may not, except in connection with and
in the performance of his duties as State's Attorney, appear as
counsel or represent any party professionally before any court,
board, commission or agency of this State or any county or
political subdivision of this State; it is intended by the
provisions of this sentence that the State's Attorney may not
engage in the private practice of law in any manner.

(2) The State's Attorney may appoint a deputy State's
attorney whose salary shall not be less than $15,000.00 yearly,
and he may appoint 5 assistant State's attorneys whose salaries
shall not be less than $10,000.00 yearly, or for those with at
least one year's experience, shall not be less than $12,000
yearly, and such other assistant State's attorneys and staff