WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        H.B. 836

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 9-626(b)(4)(ii)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Estates and Trusts
Section 2-204(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 27-6A.

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1988 Edition and October, 1991 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 19 - Comptroller

20.

The bonds of ALL REGISTERS OF WILLS AND all OTHER officers and employees of
the State, or of any agency of the State, shall be made to the State and. with the exception
of the bond of the State Comptroller, EACH such executed [bonds] BOND shall be filed
with the State Comptroller after such approval [and recording thereof] OF THE BOND as
may be prescribed by statute. All such bonds may be submitted by the said Comptroller to
the Office of the Attorney General for approval as to form and legal sufficiency.

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions

11-504.

(q) (2) The County Commissioners shall appoint a dog warden and may appoint
deputy wardens. The dog warden and any deputies appointed shall serve at the discretion
of the County Commissioners and shall be paid whatever salary and allowances for travel
the Commissioners prescribe. Before entering upon the duties of the office, the dog
warden and any deputy dog wardens appointed shall give bond to the State with good and
sufficient surety, to be approved by the Commissioners, in whatever penalty the
Commissioners determine and conditioned on the faithful performance of duties and
proper accounting for all moneys and property received by virtue of the position. The
bond shall be in the form of a "public employee's faithful performance blanket bond" for
the dog warden and all deputies, if possible. The premiums shall be borne by Calvert
County, and the bonds shall be filed [and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of the County] WITH THE STATE COMPTROLLER.

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