HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1753

tendent of Police to fix standards and qualifications of
appointment for police employees without the necessity of
approval by the State Employment Commissioner.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 5 of Article 88B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "State Police", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

5. (a) The Superintendent may establish and maintain a
classification of ranks and grades for the police employees of
the Department as follows: Major (1); Captains (2), one to
be designated as Senior Captain; Lieutenants (7); Medical
Examiner (1); Sergeant Major (1); First Sergeants (9);
Detective Sergeants (6); Quartermaster Sergeant (1); Ser-
geant Mechanic (1); Sergeants (17); Corporals (18); Officers
First Class (26); and Officers (91). The number of police
employees in each such rank and grade shall be that appearing
in parentheses after each rank and grade set forth above; pro-
vided, however, that such number may be increased by the
Superintendent, from time to time, in such number as the
Budget or Budget Amendment or Amendments may from time
to time provide. Such additional police employees shall be
appointed only in accordance with the provisions of Sections
10 and 11 of this Article. The Superintendent shall be au-
thorized to establish such additional ranks and grades for the
police employees as may be required from time to time to carry
on efficiently work of the Department and the number of
police employees in such additional ranks and grades shall be
such as the Budget or Budget Amendment or Amendments
may from time to time provide. Such additional ranks and
grades shall be filled only in accordance with the provisions
of Sections 10 and 11 of this Article. In addition to said
police employees, the Superintendent shall appoint for said
Department such clerical employees as may be required from
time to time to carry on efficiently the work thereof and as the
Budget or Budget Amendment or Amendments may from time
to time provide, and such clerical employees shall be appointed
only in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of this
Article.

(b) Subject to such limitations as are imposed on him by
other sections of this Article, the Superintendent shall desig-
nate the authority, responsibility and duties of the various
ranks, grades and positions established under this section, and
shall also set standards and qualifications, and fix prerequisites
of training, education and experience; but the positions of all
clerical employees of the Department shall be subject to the
provisions of the Merit System.