PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 663

employees are paid. They] THE SHERIFF AND THE SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES shall [ also] be
paid [any additional] allowances as the Commissioners may deem necessary.

(2) [The County Commissioners shall provide the Sheriff with funds to
compensate a matron and a cook at the county jail.

(3)] The County Commissioners may authorize additional deputies as
necessary and shall set their compensation at the time of their appointment.

[(4)](3) The County Commissioners may authorize the Sheriff to appoint
as part-time deputies individuals employed in specific plants, schools, hospitals,
institutions, business enterprises, and land development tracts situated within Kent
County who are limited to service only within the particular facility where they are
employed, and who may not be compensated by Kent County for their services.

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

Approved May 23, 1996.

CHAPTER 663
(House Bill 1350)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County Gaming Commission - Tip Jar Regulation

FOR the purpose of modifying provisions governing the regulation of tip jars in
Washington County; authorizing the Board of County Commissioners to establish a
temporary tip jar license, to require certain information and actions relating to
criminal background checks, and to require certain additional reports; modifying
requirements concerning membership of and qualifications and terms of members
of the Washington County Gaming Commission; requiring the Board to waive
certain fees; modifying requirements concerning tip jar licensees and wholesalers
wholesaler licensees; requiring certain organizations and associations that have tip
jar licenses to contribute certain proceeds in a certain manner; prohibiting the
Board from reducing certain appropriations below a certain level; altering certain
reporting requirements; prohibiting a person from operating a tip jar on property
owned by the Washington County School Board; increasing certain criminal
penalties; providing for certain other criminal penalties; requiring certain
recommendations to the Board of License Commissioners of Washington County
relating to suspension of liquor licenses; repealing a provision authorizing certain
organizations to make contributions without contributing to the Washington County
Gaming Fund for a certain duration; altering a certain termination provision; and
generally relating to tip jar operations and the regulation of tip jars in Washington
County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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