PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                              Ch. 647

CHAPTER 647
(House Bill 196)

AN ACT concerning

Howard County Ethics Bill

Ho. Co. 1-97

FOR the purpose of requiring an applicant in certain zoning proceedings in Howard
County to file a certain affidavit stating whether the applicant is engaging in
business with certain elected officials when the application has been filed; requiring
an applicant who begins engaging in business with certain elected officials between
the filing of an application and the disposition of the application to file an affidavit
at a certain time; defining a certain term; providing for the application of this Act;
and generally relating to Ethics Law provisions for Howard County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 15-848 and 15-849
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 15-850

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                   

(1995 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 - State Government

15-848.

(a)     In this Part VII the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)     (1) "Applicant" means an individual or a business entity that is, with regard
to the land that is the subject of the application:

(i) a title owner, assignee, or contract purchaser of the land;

(ii) a trustee that has an interest in the land, other than as a trustee
described in a mortgage or deed of trust; or

(iii) a holder of a 5% or greater interest in the business entity that has
an interest in the land if:

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