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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="15-402" title_number="15" title_name="Office of the State's Attorney" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Countywide Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only in Allegany County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The State’s Attorney’s salary is 90% of the salary of a judge of the District Court of Maryland in effect on December 31 of the year immediately before the start of the State’s Attorney’s term of office.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>As determined by the State’s Attorney, the State’s Attorney, a deputy State’s Attorney, or an assistant State’s Attorney shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>present cases to the grand jury; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>perform other necessary duties in relation to the grand jury, the District Court of Maryland, and the circuit court, including the juvenile court.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The State’s Attorney may appoint:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>two deputy State’s Attorneys who shall serve full time and whose salaries may not be less than 80% of the salary of the State’s Attorney; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>as many assistant State’s Attorneys that the county commissioners authorize and fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State’s Attorney shall appoint a county investigator and an assistant county investigator in accordance with §§ 12–1A and 12–1B of the Allegany County Code.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The county investigator and assistant county investigator shall be funded in accordance with § 12–1A of the Allegany County Code.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The State’s Attorney may not engage in the private practice of law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
