Ch. 20

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article 10 - Legal Officials

40.

(d) (2) The State's Attorney shall appoint 2 deputy State's Attorneys [, each to
have an annual salary of not more than $85,000; 1]. ONE of these deputy State's
Attorneys shall be designated deputy State's Attorney of trial and administration, and the
other deputy State's Attorney shall be designated deputy State's Attorney of operations.
The deputy State's Attorneys are to perform such work as the State's Attorney may
require, shall serve full time, and may not engage in the private practice of law. THE
SALARIES OF THE DEPUTY STATE'S ATTORNEYS SHALL BE SET BY THE STATE'S
ATTORNEY, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THE
COUNTY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE COUNTY.

(3) The State's Attorney of Baltimore County may appoint [44 assistant
State's Attorneys. The salary of the assistant State's Attorneys may not be more than
$45,000 annually as the State's Attorney may determine. The State's Attorney may,
however, designate 30 of the 44 assistants as full-time assistant State's Attorneys at a
salary of not more than $74,000 annually. The 30 assistants designated as full-time
assistant State's Attorneys may not engage in the private practice of law] ASSISTANT
STATE'S ATTORNEYS AS MAY BE AUTHORIZED BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF
BALTIMORE COUNTY. THE SALARIES OF THE ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEYS SHALL
BE SET BY THE STATE'S ATTORNEY, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNTY
EXECUTIVE AND COUNTY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE COUNTY.

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

Approved April 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 20
(Senate Bill 385)

AN ACT concerning

Supplemental Corrective Bill - State Personnel and Pensions Article

FOR the purpose of correcting certain errors and omissions in the State Personnel and
Pensions Article as affected by implementation of Chapters 347 and 349 of the Acts
of 1996; repealing an obsolete provision and subtitle; validating certain corrections
made by the publisher of the Annotated Code; ratifying certain provisions of the
Code affected by implementation of Chapters 347 and 349 of the Acts of 1996; and
making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Chapter 347 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1996
Section 15

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

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