WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 583

(2) THE STAFF OF THE AGENCY ARE UNDER THE IMMEDIATE
DIRECTION AND CONTROL OF THE DIRECTOR.

[2-128.

(a)  (1) The Director shall:

(i) Study the problem of the units of work that
are involved in the several courts; and

(ii) Establish a system for units of work.

(2) On the basis of the comparative work load of any
court, the Director shall provide the court with an adequate
staff and adequate variety of staff. However, except with the
consent of its judges, a court may not have BE ASSIGNED a smaller
staff than authorized as of July 1, 1966 JULY 1, 1986.

(b)  Within this formula, the judge of any court may ask for
the additional clerical and professional court service staff that
the work load of the court requires, and the Director shall
comply with the request.] CONSIDER AND RESPOND TO THE REQUEST IN
ACCORDANCE WITH §§ 2-126 AND 2-127 OF THIS ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.

CHAPTER 583

(Senate Bill 359)

AN ACT concerning

State Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund -
Income Tax Checkoff

FOR the purpose of establishing a State Chesapeake Bay and
Endangered Species Fund; specifying the purposes for which
the Fund may be used; providing for administration of the
Fund by the Secretary of Natural Resources; requiring the
Secretary to submit a certain report each year to the
General Assembly on the administration of the Fund;
establishing an income tax checkoff system for voluntary
contributions to the Fund; requiring the Comptroller to
include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms and
to include certain information in each individual income tax
return package; requiring the Comptroller to collect and

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