The following persons must file a public financial disclosure statement under oath:
(a) each incumbent and candidate for:
(1) County Executive; and
(2) County Council;
(b) the following public employees:
(1) Chief Administrative Officer and any Deputy or Assistant Chief Administrative Officer;
(2) special assistants to the County Executive;
(3) director and deputy director of each department, principal office, and office in the County government;
(4) any officer holding a position designated by law as a non-merit position;
(5) each Hearing Examiner in the Office of Zoning and Administrative Hearings;
(6) members of the County Board of Appeals;
(7) members of the Commission;
(8) each member of the Fire and Emergency Services Commission, Board of License Commissioners, Revenue Authority, and Housing Opportunities Commission;
(9) members of the Merit System Protection Board;
(10) the Executive Director of the Office of the County Council and the Deputy Director of the Office of the County Council, if any;
(11) each Senior Legislative Analyst, Legislative Analyst, Senior Legislative Attorney, and Legislative Attorney for the County Council;
(12) the Legislative Information Officer for the County Council;
(13) each Senior Legislative Analyst and Legislative Analyst in the Office of Legislative Oversight;
(14) each Legislative Senior Aide III for the County Council;
(15) the Inspector General and the deputy Inspector General;
(16) members of the Police Accountability Board;
(17) members of the Administrative Charging Committee; and
(18) any person who is appointed to serve in an acting capacity in any position listed in the preceding paragraphs while the position is vacant; and
(c) the following public employees, if not already required to file under this Section:
(1) any public employee in the Management Leadership Service;
(2) any paid member of any board, commission, or committee of County government, and any other member of a board, commission, or committee of County government who the Chief Administrative Officer designates; and
(3) any other public employee in the Executive branch of County government designated by the Chief Administrative Officer, and any public employee in the legislative branch of County government designated by the Council Administrator.
(d) In designating other public employees to file financial disclosure statements, the Chief Administrative Officer and Council Administrator respectively should include those employees whose duties and responsibilities are likely to substantially affect private interests and require significant participation through decision or the exercise of significant judgment, and without substantial supervision and review, in taking a government action regarding:
(1) contracting or procurement;
(2) administering grants or subsidies;
(3) land use, planning and zoning;
(4) regulating, licensing or inspecting any business;
(5) other decisions with significant economic impact; and
(6) law enforcement. (1990 L.M.C., ch. 21, § 1; 1994 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 37, §1; 2000 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1; 2001 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2006 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1; 2009 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 2010 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 2013 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 38, § 1; 2018 L.M.C., ch. 3, §1; 2022 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1.)
Editor's note-In Department of Transportation v. Armacost, 311 Md. 64, 532 A.2d 1056 (1987), the court quoted with approval from the opinion in Montgomery County v. Walsh, 274 Md. 502, 523, 336 A.2d 97 (1975), appeal dismissed, 424 U.S. 901, 96 S.Ct. 109-1, 47 L.Ed.2d 306 (1976), which upheld as constitutional the delegation of power to the County Executive to implement by regulation a prior County financial disclosure law containing provisions similar to those currently in §§ 19A-17(a)(4) and 19A-17(b)(7). In Walsh, the court also held that the prior County ethics law met the requirements of the State ethics law and did not violate employees' right to privacy.