Prince George's County is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain,
and operate a fund or procure an appropriate insurance policy which may be appropriated
and levied for in the annual budget of said County or from any other general or contingency
funds available for appropriation by the County Council to provide for legal fees
and expenses of all County employees who, in a civil or criminal case, including a
disciplinary proceeding or an appeal therefrom, are wrongfully charged with or accused
of the commission of any wrong or crime as a result of any act done in the normal
and natural course of his official duties and within the scope of his employment.
Such fund may be expended upon order of the County Executive to pay all or part of
the legal expenses of such County employee upon the County Executive's determination
that such expenditure is in the best interest of the County, the public, and the County
employee charged or accused.
(Laws 1970, ch. 673; PLL 1963, Sec. 18-72; CB-104-1973)
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