PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 22

CHAPTER 22
(Senate Bill 467)

AN ACT concerning

Dorchester County - Recreation and Parks - Employment Practices

FOR the purpose of authorizing the County Commissioners of Dorchester County, rather
than the Board of Recreation and Parks, to appoint a Director of Recreation and
Parks; providing that the Director shall serve at the pleasure of the County
Commissioners; making certain functions of the Board of Recreation and Parks
advisory; altering certain provisions governing employment of certain personnel;
making stylistic changes; and generally relating to employment matters in
Dorchester County concerning recreation and parks personnel.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Dorchester County
Section 37-3 and 37-5
Article 10 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1984 Edition and June 1994 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 10 - Dorchester County

37-3.

The [Board is authorized to] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY appoint a Director
of Recreation and Parks [, who] . THE DIRECTOR shall be the Chief Executive Officer of
the Board but not a member [thereof and shall, under the direction and with the
approval] of the Board [,] . WITH THE ADVICE OF THE BOARD, THE DIRECTOR
SHALL be charged with the general organization, administration and supervision of the
programs of public recreation contemplated and provided for by this chapter. The
[Director's term of office shall be for one (1) year, but he shall be subject to
reappointment by the Board] DIRECTOR SHALL SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [He] THE DIRECTOR shall [be a person of] HAVE such
training, experience and capacity as will especially qualify [him] THE DIRECTOR to
discharge the duties of the office [. He shall possess] AND those qualifications of
education, training and experience which will assure a thorough knowledge of current
theory and practice in public recreation [and] . THE DIRECTOR SHALL give promise of
the administrative ability to initiate and maintain a program within the jurisdiction and
under the direction of the Board.

37-5.

The [Board] COUNTY may, within the limits of funds appropriated [to it for this
purpose] by the County Commissioners [of Dorchester County], employ such personnel,
in addition to the Director of Recreation and Parks, as the Board [may consider]

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