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(b)     The Legislative Auditor may authorize the disclosure of information
obtained during an audit or review only to the following:

(1)     another employee of the Department, with the approval of the
Executive Director;

(2)     federal, State, or local officials, or their auditors, who provide
evidence to the Legislative Auditor that they are performing investigations, studies,
or audits related to that same audit or review and who provide justification for the
specific information requested; or

(3)     the Joint Audit Committee, if necessary to assist the Committee in
reviewing a report issued by the Legislative Auditor.

(c)      [If] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN § 2-1225 OF THIS SUBTITLE, IF information
that an employee obtains during an audit or review also is confidential under another
law, the employee or the Legislative Auditor may not include in a report or otherwise
use the information in any manner that discloses the identity of any person who is the
subject of the confidential information.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 243
(Senate Bill 22)

AN ACT concerning

Cecil County - County Expenses - Records and Statements of Accounts

FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement that the Board of County Commissioners
of Cecil County publish all records of county expenses in its minutes; requiring
that all records of county expenses be on file in the Cecil County Treasurer's
office; altering the amount of certain expense payments above which the Board
of County Commissioners must include on a certain statement of accounts; and
generally relating to county expenses in Cecil County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Cecil County
Section 15-12

Article 8 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1989 Edition and July 2003 Supplement, as amended)

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

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