Ch. 413                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND

as supplemental and additional to powers conferred upon the
County by other laws and may not be regarded as in derogation of
any power now existing; and all previously enacted laws
authorizing the County to borrow money are hereby continued to
the extent that the power contained in them is continuing or has
not been exercised, unless any law is expressly repealed by this
Act, and the validity of any bonds issued under previously
enacted laws is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved. This
Act, being necessary for the welfare of the inhabitants of the
County, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. All
Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed to the extend of any inconsistency.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1989.

Approved May 19, 1989.

CHAPTER 413

(House Bill 364)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Tort Claims Act

FOR the purpose of clarifying the types of torts for which the
State waives its sovereign immunity; altering the definition
of State personnel; and clarifying that the State may assert
any immunity or other defense available to individual State
personnel for whose actions or omissions the State waives
its immunity for purposes of the Maryland Tort Claims Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Government

Section 12-101, 12-103, and 12-104

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article - State Government

12-101.

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