PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 474

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

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

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

14.

(a) (1) The local department in each county shall have a board, appointed as
hereinafter provided and herein referred to as the local board. The local board shall be
composed of eight members until June 30, 1968 and of nine members thereafter. The
members shall receive no salary for their services, but their reasonable expenses incurred
in attending meetings or performing other official duties shall be paid. Each local board
shall select its own chairman on July 1st of each year.

(d)    Any member of any of the local boards who shall fail to attend at least fifty
percent of its meetings during any period of twelve consecutive months may be considered
to have resigned, and the chairman of the board shall, in [his] THE CHAIRMAN'S
discretion, declare that a vacancy exists and proceed to have it filled by appointment for
the remainder of the unexpired term in the manner provided in [the aforegoing]
subsection (c) OF THIS SECTION.

(e)     If any member of any of the local boards, except the ex officio member serving
thereon under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, [ becomes a candidate for]
IS ELECTED TO political office, or accepts public office by election or appointment during
[his] THE MEMBER'S tenure of office on the local board, such candidacy for or
acceptance of public office shall MAY, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE LOCAL GOVERNING
AUTHORITY, be considered as [ his] THE MEMBER'S resignation as a member of the local
board, and the chairman of the local board shall declare that a vacancy exists on the local
board and proceed to have it filled by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired
term in the manner provided in [ the aforegoing] subsection (c) OF THIS SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 474
(House Bill 664)

AN ACT concerning

Montgomery County - Alcoholic Beverages

(Damascus)
MC 618-96

FOR the purpose of repealing the prohibition in Montgomery County on the issuance of

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