Ch. 728

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

                                          Article 5 - Calvert County

12-102.

(a) (1) The board of county commissioners may appoint an agricultural
preservation advisory board consisting of 5 members[, at]. AT least 3 of [whom] THE
MEMBERS shall [be owner operators of commercial farms who earn 51 percent or more
of their income from farming] BE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN AN ONGOING,
COMMERCIAL, FOR-PROFIT FARMING OPERATION.

(2) The board of county commissioners may appoint 1 or more alternate
members for the agricultural preservation advisory board who may be empowered to sit
on the board in the absence of any member of the board. A quorum for meetings is 3
members of whom no more than 1 shall be an alternate.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1. 1994.

Approved May 26, 1994.

CHAPTER 728
(House Bill 630)

AN ACT concerning

Domestic Violence Act of 1994

FOR the purpose of expanding the category' of victims who may request certain assistance
from a local law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; altering the
circumstances under which certain persons may be prosecuted for rape and certain
sexual offenses; repealing a certain prohibition against prosecuting certain persons
for rape or certain sexual offenses under certain circumstances; repealing certain
exceptions to the prohibition; altering the period of time within which a certain
report is required to be made to the police in order for a police officer to arrest
certain persons without a warrant; requiring a police allowing requiring a law
enforcement officer responding to a domestic violence call or to a certain request
for assistance from a person who alleges to have been a victim of abuse to give the
victim a copy of a certain written notice; providing that a law enforcement officer
may not be held civilly liable for failing to give the victim a copy of the notice;
requiring police officers responding to domestic violence calls to take complete
offense reports including certain information; requiring law enforcement agencies
to make and maintain certain records relating to domestic violence; requiring the
records to be made identifiable by a certain code and reported to certain persons;
requiring the Maryland State Police to receive, accept, and incorporate civil
protective orders in the Maryland Interagency Law Enforcement System; requiring
the State Police to cooperate with certain persons; authorizing judges and law
enforcement agencies and officers to access the system for a certain purpose;
establishing certain responsibilities of the clerks of the courts and local law

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