Public Officials - -

SEE ALSO Treasurers
Dorchester County -
Clerk to the County Commissioners, position renamed as County

Administrator..................................................................................

Recreation and Parks, appointment, terms, duties, and salaries of

the Director and personnel, provisions altered ............................

Dual office holding by public employees, task force to study changing

the laws concerning, appointment requested ...................................

Executive pay plan, salary' schedule for FY 1996 ................................

Governor's power to appoint persons to offices in the executive

branch, restricted during "lame duck" period..................................

Howard County -
Zoning proceeding applicant, disclosure of campaign contribution
to county executive or county council member or candidates for

those offices, provisions added ......................................................

Human Resources, Department of, number of deputy secretaries

increased .............................................................................................

Interests held by a blind trust approved by the State Ethics

Commission, not required to be disclosed under State ethics law .

Judicial branch employees included as public officials for ethics law

purposes, exclusions added................................................................

Limited liability companies and partnerships, treated as partnerships

under the public ethics law provisions, clarification added ............

Lobbyist Gifts -
Admission to sporting, charitable, cultural, or political events for
General Assembly members, reporting requirements added;
lobbyist payment of expenses of State officials for speaking

engagements, notification requirements added ............................

Meals or beverages for State officials, lobbyist disclosure
requirements added; $75 cumulative gift reporting threshold for

lobbyists, provisions altered ...........................................................

Unsolicited gifts of nominal value costing over $15, acceptance by
State officials prohibited; lobbyists prohibited from knowingly

making gifts in violation of ethics law...........................................

Public Ethics, new Title 15 added to the State Government Article,

restating and recodifying the Maryland Public Ethics Law ............

Public office holders holding two public offices simultaneously,

compensation for second office prohibited ......................................

Salaries for nonclassified State government positions, appropriation

for........................................................................................................

Special retirement or pension system, creation by a county,

requirements and restrictions added ................................................

State retirees serving as elected county officials or constitutional
officers, applicability of offset in retirement benefits, provisions

clarified...............................................................................................

Withholding of partial salary of department head upon
noncompliance with fiscal requirements...........................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

23	702
22	701
JR7 7	3626 541
114	1497
614	3500
600	3389
588	3358
594	3370
552	3210
550	3202
617	3513
618	3518
533	3001
7	540
7	535
616	3509
363	2422
7	568