WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 737

CHAPTER 737

(House Bill 1357)

AN ACT concerning

Talbot County - Office of the State's Attorney

FOR the purpose of providing that the State's Attorney for Talbot
County may serve part-time and engage in certain private
practice of law; making stylistic changes; defining a
certain term; requiring the approval of the Talbot County
Council to pay for the payment of certain expenses of the
office of the State's Attorney for Talbot County under
certain circumstances; authorizing the State's Attorney for
Talbot County to appoint, with the approval of the Talbot
County Council, certain criminal investigators; specifying
authorities, duties, limitations, and requirements of
certain criminal investigators authorized under this Act;
authorizing the State's Attorney for Talbot County to
designate certain criminal investigators as peace officers
under certain circumstances; providing that a criminal
investigator under this Act is not subject to the Law
Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights; authorizing the
State's Attorney for Talbot County to appoint certain
special assistant State's Attorneys; requiring that a
special assistant State's Attorney under this Act shall be
compensated in a certain manner and may not receive certain
other compensation; providing that the office of special
assistant State's Attorney for Talbot County may not be
construed as an office for profit; providing that a person
may not be deemed to have vacated a certain office or
employment, and may not be precluded from accepting a
certain case, by virtue of certain service as a special
assistant State's Attorney for Talbot County; and generally
relating to the office of the State's Attorney for Talbot
County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40(u)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1986 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.

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