WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 170

(3) The Sheriff shall submit properly authenticated requisitions containing
a full and complete statement under oath setting forth all of the expenses for a month,
including the names of all deputies and assistants, the amounts allowed to each and all
other items of expense. These sums are in lieu of all expenses, fees and costs now or
heretofore allowed the Sheriff for expense in carrying out the duties of his office,
including the expenses of transferring prisoners to and from penal institutions and
places of confinement in the State under the sentence or order of any authority. The
County Council shall not pay the Sheriff additional compensation for any services he
renders in discharging his official duties. The County Council is not liable for any other
fee or compensation to the Sheriff.

(4) The County Council shall levy each year sufficient funds to pay the
salaries and expenses of the Sheriff's office.

(5) All deputies, except the chief deputy, clerical assistant, and other
employees employed are subject to the "personnel provisions" of the charter of
Wicomico County and subsequent rules and regulations passed by the County Council.
If a deputy subject to the personnel provisions is promoted to chief deputy, then on his
removal from the office of chief deputy for other than cause, he shall revert to a deputy
with the same status which he had prior to his appointment as chief deputy. A chief
deputy who is not a deputy subject to the personnel provisions prior to his appointment
as chief deputy, if removed from office for any reason shall not automatically revert to
a deputy.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, pursuant to Article III,
Section 35 of the Constitution of Maryland, this Act may not be construed to extend or
apply to the salary or compensation of the Sheriff of Wicomico County in office on the
effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the salary or
compensation of the Sheriff of Wicomico County shall take effect at the beginning of
the next following term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

Approved April 24, 1990.

CHAPTER 170
(House Bill 624)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County - Property Tax Credit - Agricultural Land

FOR the purpose of authorizing the governing body of Washington County to grant a
tax credit against the County property tax on real property subject to the County's
agricultural land preservation program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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