Ch. 689                                    1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

requiring the Board of County Commissioners to recognize certain labor organizations as
the exclusive representatives for the appropriate units and prohibiting an ejection under
this Act before that recognition; defining certain terms; providing for the termination of
this Act; and generally relating to collective bargaining in Washington County.

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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, BY adding to

The Public Local Laws of Washington County

Section 1-802 1-901 through 1-912, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 9.

Collective Bargaining"                                                                   

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

1-802.

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 now edition [shall] MAY be
published [in 1976 or before and at intervals of no less than four years after that date]
AS OFTEN AS THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DEEM NECESSARY.

SUBTITLE 9. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.                   

1-901.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS SUBTITLE IS TO MANDATE PROCEDURES BY WHICH THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SHALL NEGOTIATE WAGES, HOURS, AND OTHER TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT WITH REPRESENTATIVES ELECTED BY PERMANENT,
FULL-TIME HOURLY EMPLOYEES OF THE COUNTY.

1-902.                                                                                                             

(A) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) (1) "APPROPRIATE UNIT" MEANS A GROUP OF FULL-TIME, PERMANENT,
HOURLY COUNTY EMPLOYEES, RECOGNIZED BY THE COUNTY AS APPROPRIATE FOR
REPRESENTATION BY AN EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE.

(2) "APPROPRIATE UNIT" INCLUDES A GROUP OF EMPLOYEES WHO ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNDER THIS SUBTITLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED

BY:

(I) THE PARKS DIVISION OF THE RECREATION AND PARKS
DEPARTMENT;

(II) THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT;

(III) THE LANDFILL DEPARTMENT; AND                           

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