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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 5

Administration. Specifically, by way of example and not in
limitation, each local director has the following basic
responsibilities:

(1)  Long-range and short-range planning for the
functions and objectives of the respective local department;

(2)  Exercise of full administrative responsibility
for the operations of the respective local department;

(3)  Appointment of all personnel of the respective
local department in the county involved, from State merit system
lists under the provisions of Article 64A of this Code;

(4)  Improvement of administrative and social-work
practices and procedures;

(5)  Submission of periodic reports and evaluations as
required by the State Administration;

(6)  Submission of an annual report to the local board
of the respective local department in the counties and to the
local commission of the local department in Baltimore City; and

(7)  Other responsibilities as may from time to time
be required by the State Administration or by other applicable
laws, rules and regulations.

(d) Administrative costs of the local departments for the
purpose of this section shall be paid out of funds derived from
local sources or out of allotments from State or federal funds,
or any of them, as the State Department may prescribe. The local
governing authority in each county and in Baltimore City is
hereby empowered and directed to levy for or appropriate such
funds, from time to time, as may be necessary for this purpose.
[The provisions of this subsection are subject to the
requirements of § 18A of this article.]

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This deletes an obsolete provision in
Article 88A, § 13(d).

Article 88A, § 18A, relating to local contributions to
public assistance programs, was repealed in Ch. 103 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of 1978.

The obsolete provision was noted by the Michie
Company.

(Article 88A, § 13 is set out in its entirety for purposes of
Sections 2 and 3 of this Act.)

17A.

(a) The Secretary of Employment and Social Services shall
establish a demonstration program of public employment for a