Ch. 388

1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 388
(Senate Bill 505)

AN ACT concerning

Administrative Procedure Act - Regulatory Mandates on Local Government - Fiscal

Impact

FOR the purpose of amending the Administrative Procedure Act to require that a unit in
the executive branch of State government indicate whether a proposed regulation,
including a regulation proposed for emergency adoption, imposes a mandate on a
local government unit; requiring that the unit provide specified information if the
regulation imposes a mandate; defining "local government unit" and "mandate";
and generally relating to the evaluation of the fiscal impact of regulatory mandates
on local government.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 10-101, 10-111(c), and 10-112(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland                                       

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing .and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 10-109 and 10-111(b)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1993 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - State Government

10-101.

(a)     In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)     "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Division of State Documents.

(c)     "Committee" means the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and
Legislative Review.

(d)     "LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT" MEANS:

(1)     A COUNTY;

(2)     A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION;

(3)     A SPECIAL DISTRICT THAT IS ESTABLISHED BY STATE LAW AND
THAT OPERATES WITHIN A SINGLE COUNTY;

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