PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Approved May 8, 1997.

Ch. 543

CHAPTER 543
(House Bill 1343)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - Human Relations Commission

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of St. Mary's
County to establish the St. Mary's County Human Relations Commission; providing
for the membership, purposes, goals, powers, and duties of the Commission;
providing that certain information, records, and activities of the Commission remain
confidential under certain circumstances; providing that this Act supersedes certain
provisions of existing law; authorizing the Board to appropriate funds for the
administrative support of the Commission; providing that compliance with certain
provisions of this Act shall be deemed as compliance with certain provisions of
existing law; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the establishment of
the St. Mary's County Human Relations Commission.

BY adding to

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission

Section 43 through 50, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "St. Mary's County
Human Relations Commission"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission

43.

(A) IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND PHRASES HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) "ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION" INCLUDES MEDIATION.

(C) "BOARD" MEANS THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST. MARY'S
COUNTY.

(D) "COMMISSION" MEANS THE ST. MARY'S COUNTY HUMAN RELATIONS
COMMISSION.

(E) "COUNTY" MEANS ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

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