WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 72

CHAPTER 72

(House Bill 227)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - Chief Financial Officer

FOR the purpose of changing obsolete references to the Budget
Officer of St. Mary's County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County

Section 27-3 B.(l) and C.(l) and 27-9 A

Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(1978 Edition and July, 1985 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 19 - St. Mary's County

27-3.

B.  (1) When the Board of County Commissioners directs,
each office, court, department, institution, board, commission,
corporation or other agency of the county government shall submit
to the [Budget Officer] CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER annual work
programs setting forth the nature, volume, cost and other factors
concerning the work to be performed and the estimates of the
revenues and expenditures of their operations for the ensuing
fiscal year. Estimated revenues shall be detailed as to source
and estimated expenditures as to function, activity or otherwise,
as directed by the [Budget Officer] CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

C.  (1) At whatever times the Board of County Commissioners
may direct, each office, court, department, institution, board,
commission, corporation or other agency of the county government
shall submit to the [Budget Officer] CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER for
transmission to the Planning Commission an itemized list of the
capital projects which each agency proposes to undertake in the
ensuing fiscal year and the next succeeding five (5) fiscal years
thereafter. After consideration by the Planning Commission, the
Director of Planning and Zoning function shall transmit to the
[Budget Officer] CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER the list of projects
recommended by the Commission, together with his recommendations
on the projects to be undertaken in the periods aforesaid and
estimates of the cost thereof. The County Commissioners, with
the assistance of the [Budget Officer] CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER,
shall consider such recommendations with the other budget
proposals and shall recommend to the general public, together

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