564                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 286

prescribed by the Annotated Code of Maryland, local public laws,
or of any other law of this State, municipal ordinance, or rules and
regulations adopted thereunder.

(7)  "Police official" shall mean a full time police officer employed
by a governmental agency having administrative responsibility.

(8)  "Police officer" shall mean a member of a police force or other
organization of State, county or municipal government who is respon-
sible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement
of the laws of the State, but shall not include any person serving as
such solely by virtue of his occupying any other office or position,
nor shall such term include a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable,
superintendent of State Police, commissioner of police, deputy or
assistant commissioner of police, chief of police, deputy or assistant
chief of police, or any person having an equivalent title who is
appointed or employed by a government to exercise equivalent super-
visory authority.

(b)   There is hereby established in the Executive Department of
the State of Maryland, a Police Training Commission whose member-
ship shall consist of the following ten persons:

(1)  the president of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association;
the president of the Maryland Law Enforcement Officers, Inc.; the
Attorney General of the State of Maryland; the Superintendent of
the Maryland State Police; the Commissioner, Baltimore City Police
Department; the president of the University of Maryland; the agent
in charge of the Baltimore office of the F.B.I.; and three police
officials of the State to be appointed by the Governor with the advice
and consent of the Senate, to represent the State geographically, the
appointments to be made for a three-year term provided that, for the
first term, one official shall be appointed for a term of one year, one
for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years.

(2)  the seven non-appointive office holders may elect to serve
personally at any or all meetings of the Commission or may designate
a member of their respective association, office, department, uni-
versity or agency to represent them and to act for them at the said
meetings to the same effect as if they were personally present.

(c)   (1) The Commission, at its initial organization meeting to be
held promptly after the appointment and qualifications of its mem-
bers, and thereafter annually shall elect a chairman and vice-chair-
man from among its members, and shall meet at such other times
within the State of Maryland as it may determine. A majority of the
Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business, the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any
of its authority.

(2)   The Commission shall maintain minutes of its meetings and
such other records as it deems necessary.

(3)  The members of the Commission shall receive no salary but
all members shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses law-
fully incurred in the performance of their official functions.

(4) The Commission shall report at least annually to the Governor
and the Legislature as to its activities.