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; or

(2) —when in search of an offender or suspected offender wanted
for a crime committed outside of the limits of the munici-
pality, or when interviewing or seeking to interview a wit-
ness or a supposed witness to such a crime; or

(3) —when requested to act by the chief executive officer of the
municipality in question or Its chief police officer, as pro-
vided under Section 23; or

(4) —when ordered by the Governor to act within the municipality

in question; or

(5) —when enforcing the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State.
The Department maintains a Training School for the employees of
the Department, which school shall be made available to any local
Government unit within this State for the training of peace officers.

The Department maintains a Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Statistics which cooperates with other bureaus of identification both
within and without the State.

Through Chaper 365 of the Acts of 1941 of the Maryland Legis-
lature, a Traffic Collision Statistical Bureau was created under the
direction of the Superintendent. Under this Act, all Police Depart-
ments 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 notice. 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 circumstances surround-
ing such accidents.

This Bureau maintains the Motor Vehicle Law enforcement records
of the Department. It prepares accident statistics and releases for
the Maryland Traffic Safety Commission.

Through Chapter 406 of the Acts of 1935, the Maryland Legislature
created a Police Communication Bureau under the direction of the
Superintendent of State Police. By means of a teletypewriter sys-
tem inaugurated in January of 1945, the Maryland State Police, is
connected by direct communicating lines to a Police Teletypewriter
network of approximately 950 stations, covering eleven states and
the District of Columbia. This network includes twelve stations in
Maryland.

BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES
State Office Building, Annapolis
Telephone: 3405
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-
sources. The Board shall be composed of the Chairman of the Com-
mission of Tidewater Fisheries, the State Game Warden, the State
Forester, the Director of the Department of Geology, Mines and Water
Resources, the Director of Research and Education, Chairman of the
Maryland Publicity Commission, and six other members to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, two from the tidewater counties of the