Chapter 559 of the 1943 General Assembly provided a roster of ranks,
grades and positions with specified base salaries and authorized the Super-
intendent to establish additional ranks and grades and to increase the num-
ber of employees from time to time in accordance with the Budget or Budget
Amendments. This Act further provided a longevity pay plan for the police
personnel of the Department. All civilian and police employees of the De-
partment are in the classified service with the exception of the Superin-
tendent.

The Act provides that the Department shall create and maintain a
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Statistics, to cooperate with the Di-
vision of Investigation of United States Department of Justice at Wash-
ington, D. C., with bureaus of identification maintained by any municipality
within or without the State of Maryland, and with bureaus of identification
maintained by other States.

Through Chapter 355 of the Acts of 1941 of the Maryland Legislature, a
Traffic Collision Statistical Bureau was created under the direction of the
Superintendent. Under this Act, all Police Departments or Agencies in this
State are required to report to this Bureau all such accidents of which
notice has been received, within forty-eight hours of the receipt of such no-
tice. The duty of this Bureau is to analyze traffic accident reports and to
prepare statistical charts showing the number of accidents resulting in
death, personal injury or property damage and the causes of and circum-
stances surrounding such accidents.

The Act creating the Department of Maryland State Police, together
with subsequent amendments made by the legislature have extended the
power of enforcement of motor vehicle laws throughout the State without
exception. The general police powers of the department have been made
state-wide with the exception of Charles County, The duties of the police
employees, as now specified in the State Police Act, are to prevent and de-
tect crime, to apprehend criminals, to enforce the criminal and motor ve-
hicle laws and to perform such other related duties as may be imposed
upon them by the legislature, which power shall be exercised in any and all
parts of the State. With the exception of the enforcement of motor vehicle
laws, police powers shall not apply to Charles County. It is further pro-
vided that the State Police shall not act within the limits of any incorporated
municipality which maintains a police force, except under the following
circumstances:

(1) When in pursuit of an offender or suspected offender;

(2) When in search of an offender or suspected offender wanted for a crime
committed outside the limits of the municipality, or when interview-
ing or seeking to interview a witness or a supposed witness to such a
crime;

(3) When requested to act by the chief executive officer of the muni-
cipality in question or its chief police officer;

(4) When ordered by the Governor to act within the municipality in
question;

(5) When enforcing the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State.

BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES

State Office Building, Annapolis
Chapter 508..Acts of 1941

"There is hereby created a State Agency to be known as The Board
of Natural Resources to co-ordinate the activities of the several State
departments that are concerned with the conservation of natural re-