The Council may pass additional legislation to implement the objects and purposes of this Charter as it deems necessary.
No officer or employee of the County, elected or appointed, whose compensation is fixed, in whole or in part, by this Charter, the laws of the County, or personnel regulations if adopted, is entitled to any other compensation from the County for performance of public duties, except expenses for travel and subsistence incident to the performance of his official duties as prescribed by law.
Any person has the right to inspect and obtain copies of any public record in the custody of the County government as provided for in State law (Article 76A of the Annotated Code of Maryland[1]). In accordance with State law, the Council may prescribe reasonable regulations for the inspection and establish reasonable fees for the production of requested copies.
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Editor's Note: For records provisions, see now Md. Code Ann., State Government Article, Title 10, Subtitle 6.
Officers of the County government who have possession of or control over any funds of the County shall be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties in a sum, not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), as may be fixed by, and with sureties approved by the Council. Surety bond premiums shall be paid by the County.
If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Charter is held unconstitutional, invalid, or inapplicable to any person or circumstance, it is intended and declared by the people of the County that all other articles, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases of the Charter and their application to other persons and circumstances is separable and not affected by the decision.
As used in this Charter:
(1) 
The word "bill" means any measure introduced in the Council for legislative action.
(2) 
The words "act," "ordinance," "public local law," and "legislative act," when used in connection with any action by the Council, are synonymous, and mean any bill enacted in the manner and form provided in this Charter.
(3) 
The word "resolution" means a measure adopted by the Council having the force and effect of law but of a temporary or administrative character.
(4) 
The word "law" includes all acts, public local laws, ordinances, and other legislative acts of the Council, all ordinances and resolutions of the County Commissioners not hereby or hereafter amended or repealed and all public general laws and public local laws of the General Assembly in effect from time to time after the adoption of this Charter, whenever such construction would be reasonable.
(5) 
The words "pass," "passed," "passage," "enact," "enacted," and "enactment" when used in connection with the legislative activities of the Council, mean the final action by the Council in approving any item of legislative business and constitute the means whereby a bill attains the status of law.
(6) 
The word "State" means the State of Maryland.
(7) 
The word "shall" is mandatory and the word "may" is permissive.
(8) 
The word "person" includes the words "individual," "corporation," "partnership," and "association" unless this construction would be unreasonable.
(9) 
The word "officer" includes the word "councilman."
(10) 
Whenever in this Charter the masculine gender is used, it includes the feminine gender, unless this construction would be absurd or unreasonable.
(11) 
The word "agency" when used to designate a subordinate element of government includes all offices, departments, institutions, boards, commissions, and corporations of the County government and, when so specified, all offices, departments, institutions, boards, commissions, and corporations which receive or disburse County funds.
(12) 
Reference to a span of time is not intended to include the day the event occurs, but includes the last day of a period computed, unless that day is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the day thereafter which is neither a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.