1995 Opinions Index

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Opinion Cite	Summary
95-022 Unpublished	Agriculture - Agricultural Land Preservation - Landowner's Development Rights
80 OAG 3	Alcoholic Beverages - Liquor Boards - Public Officers and Employees - Courts and Judges - Domestic Master Holds "Public Employment" For Purposes of Employment Restriction Applicable to Baltimore City Liquor Board
95-039 Unpublished	Baltimore City - Business and Professions - Licensing of Real Estate Brokers as Auctioneers
95-048 Unpublished	Bi-County Agencies - Municipalities - Boundaries of Metropolitan District Unpublished Do Not Change When Municipal Boundaries Change
95-012 Unpublished	Bi-County Agencies - Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission - Bonds Unpublished - Issuance of Water Supply Bonds - Use of Bond Fund Surplus
80 OAG 10	Business and Professions - Counties - Charter Home Rule Counties - Charter County Restrictions on the Practice f Land Surveying Are Invalid
80 OAG 17	Charter Home Rule Counties - Public Officers and Employees - Constitutional Law - Recall Provision in County Charter Would Be Unconstitutional
80 OAG 21	Civil Rights and Discrimination - Housing - Zoning - Effect on State and Local Law of City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc.
80 OAG 28	Clerks of Court - Courts and Judges - Judicial Administration - Personnel - Authority to Implement Reorganizations Resulting in Employee Demotions
80 OAG 32	Colleges and Universities - Community Colleges - Availability of In-County Tuition Rates for Noncredit Courtesy
80 OAG 35	Comptroller - Retirement Systems - Colleges and Universities - Administration of Optional Retirement Program
80 OAG 48	Constitutional Law - Treaties - State May Enter Agreement With World Health Organization to Provide Certain Advisory Services
80 OAG 53	Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - General Assembly - "One Person/One Vote" Requirement Does Not Apply to County Delegations
80 OAG 62	Corrections - Health - Authority to Consent to Medical Treatment for Minors in Adult Confinement Facilities
80 OAG 71	Corrections - Patuxent Institutional - Application of Mandatory Minimum Sentences to Youth Program Participants
80 OAG 76	Counties - Retirement Systems - Involuntary Separation Under the Prince George's County Supplemental Pension Plan
80 OAG 90	Counties - Public Buildings and Grounds - Open Meetings Act - Constitutional Law - Freedom of Speech - Access to Private Group Meeting in a County Building
80 OAG 96	Counties - Commissioner Counties - Bonds - Debt Limit for Somerset County
80 OAG 99	Criminal Records - Colleges and Universities - Access to Information About Child Sexual Offenders
80 OAG 107	Elections - Election Boards - Statutes - Statutory Construction - County Residence Requirement for Election Board Employee Applies Only to Employees Appointed After July 1, 1978
80 OAG 110	Elections - Fair Election Practices Act -Constitutional Law - Freedom of Speech - Political Speech - Effect of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n on Maryland's Authority Line Requirements
80 OAG 118	Emergency Medical Services - Transportation - Jurisdiction Over "Litter Van" Services
80 OAG 130	Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting Requirements and Scope of Immunity
80 OAG 138	Family Law - Domestic Violence - Unauthorized Practice of Law - Activities of Lay Advocates
80 OAG 147	Firearms - Public Schools - Scope of Article 27, §36A, Prohibiting Possession of Guns on Public School Property
95-051 Unpublished	Gaming - Counties - Authority of Prince George's County to Issue Joint Unpublished and Shared Permits for Casino Nights
80 OAG 151	Gaming - Referenda - Methods By Which a Statewide or Local Vote Could Precede Initiation of Commercial Gambling
80 OAG 161	Gaming - State Lottery - Stadium Authority - Statutory Construction - Sports Lotteries Need Not Be Instant Lotteries
80 OAG 167	Health - Emergency Medical Services - Life-Sustaining Procedures - Authority for Emergency Medical Services Palliative Care/Do Not Resuscitate Protocol
80 OAG 173	Health Occupations - Physicians - Physician Assistants - Regulation of Prescribing and Dispensing of Drugs By Physician Assistants
80 OAG 180	Health Occupations - Acupuncturists - Veterinary Medicine - Administrative Lw - Rulemaking - Practice of Acupuncture on Animals
80 OAG 188	Health Occupations - Morticians - Business and Professions - Cemeteries - sale of Caskets on a "Pre-need" Basis
80 OAG 200	Home Improvement Commission - Cooperative Housing - Licensing Requirement Inapplicable to Cooperative When Its Employees Perform Work for Individual Members
80 OAG 205	Housing - Zoning - Mental Health - Local Governments Are Not Barred by State Law from allowing Large Private Group Homes to Locate in Areas Zone for Single-Family Residences
80 OAG 209	Labor Law - Occupational Health - Administrative Law - Rulemaking - Effect on Workplace Smoking Regulations of Statutory Restrictions
80 OAG 216	Law Enforcement Officers - Special Police Officers - Investigatory Authority - Filing of Charges
80 OAG 222	Municipalities - Validity Adopted Amendments to Charter Are Effective Despite Omission From Compiled Version of Charter
80 OAG 227	Municipalities - Creation of a Municipal Revenue Authority by Charter Amendment
80 OAG 232	Municipalities - Urban Renewal Charter Amendments
80 OAG 236	Municipalities - Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Privileges and Immunities - Residence Requirements for Local Government Employment
95-023 Unpublished	Natural resources - Fishing - Criminal Prohibition of Monofilament Gill Unpublished Nets Does Not Apply to Multifiliment Nylon Nets
80 OAG 241	Open Meetings Act - Constitutional Law -Status of Training Sessions and Educational Conferences - Job Interview in Open Session - Staff Meetings in St. Mary's County
80 OAG 249	Personnel - Evidence - Personnel Files of Private Employer Are Not Privileged Against Discovery
80 OAG 257	Public Information Act - Child Care - Licensing - Related Records Held by Private Child Care Providers Are Not Subject to the Public Information Act
80 OAG 262	Public Officers - Governor - Governor Need Not Personally Administer Oath to Office Who Qualifies "Before the Governor"
80 OAG 266	Public Officers - Clerks of the Court - Clerk Acting Out of Home County - Officer Qualifying Out of County of Residence
80 OAG 269	Public Officers and Employees - Colleges and Universities - Community Colleges - Members of Board of Community College Trustees for Harford County are Subject to Continuing Residence Requirement
80 OAG 272	Retirement Systems - Applicability of Earnings Limitation to Retiree Employed by Participating Municipality
80 OAG 278	Retirement Systems - Baltimore City - Statutes - Retroactivity - Statute Affecting Eligibility for Certain Widows' Benefits is Retroactive
95-038 Unpublished	Retirement Systems - Transfer of Service Credits Unpublished 80 OAG 284 Sheriffs - Health - Obligation of Sheriff to Reimburse Cost of Prisoner's Case at a State Facility
80 OAG 284	Sheriffs - Health - Obligation of Sheriff to Reimburse Cost of Prisoner's Case at a State Facility
80 OAG 290	Stadium Authority - Statutory Construction - Statutory Bar to Teams Composed of Too Few Players With Recent Major League Experience Does Not Apply When There is No Players' Strike
80 OAG 295	State's Attorneys - Counties - Budgetary Administration - Appropriations - Nature of County Funding Obligation
80 OAG 306	Statutes - Constitutional Law - Emergency Legislation - "Change in Duties" - Tobacco Regulation - Change in Duties of Commissioner of Labor and Industry
80 OAG 316	Taxation - Municipalities Have Authority to Establish Separate Classification for Land and Improvements to Land
80 OAG 327	Taxation - Property Tax - Counties - Municipalities - Process for Setting Property Tax Rate Differentials
80 OAG 330	Taxation - Counties - Applicability of Personal Property Tax Exemption to Certain Coal Mining Equipment
80 OAG 335	Tobacco Regulation - Smoking Restrictions in Talbot County - Smoking Areas in Restaurants
80 OAG 341	Torts - Immunity - Effect of Fees Charged By Municipal Ambulance Service on Good Samaritan Law Immunity