PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 476

Section 1-802

Article 22 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(1991 Edition and August 1994 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 22 - Washington County

1-106.

(a) The County Commissioners or any employee of the county may not enter into
any contract of sale or purchase or any contract for any county work, project, or other
expenditure to which the county is a party where the amount involved in the contract
exceeds [$15,000] $25,000 without advertising for bids at least 1 week before the bid by
publication in at least one newspaper that is published in the county or through electronic
media.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland read
as follows:

Article 22 - Washington County

1-802.

The County Commissioners shall have prepared and published, or contract for the
preparation and publication, of a supplement to or new edition of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Washington County. The supplement or new edition [shall] MAY be published [in
1976 or before and at intervals of no less than four years after the date] AS OFTEN AS THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DEEM NECESSARY.

SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1 of this Act
shall take effect October 1, 1997.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED That, except as provided in
Section 3 of this Act, this Act shall take effect June 1 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 476
(House Bill 742)

AN ACT concerning

St Mary's County Metropolitan Commission

FOR the purpose of altering the method of calculation of certain benefit assessment
charges by the St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission; authorizing certain
charges for upgrading certain facilities under certain circumstances; altering a
certain requirement of providing service to certain properties; requiring certain

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