1398                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 5%

CHAPTER 596
(Senate Bill 338)

AN ACT to add new Section 602B to Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Crimes and
Punishments," to follow immediately after Section 602A thereof,
and to be under the new subtitle "Police Mutual Aid Agreements,"
authorizing the several counties and municipal corporations of this
State to send their policemen and other officers, agents, and
employees, together with all necessary equipment, beyond the
territorial limits of the county or municipal corporation to any
point within or without this State, under certain conditions and
circumstances, and relating generally to this power and to its
application, use and effects.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 602B be and it is hereby added to Article 27 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title
"Crimes and Punishments," to follow immediately after Section
602A thereof, and to be under the new subtitle "Police Mutual Aid
Agreements," and to read as follows:

602B. Police Mutual Aid Agreements.

(a) By action as in the regular routine for legislative enactments,

the county council of a charter county, the board of county commis-

THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF
A CHARTER COUNTY OR THE COUNTY COUNCIL IN THOSE
CHARTER COUNTIES WHERE THERE IS NOT A COUNTY
EXECUTIVE, THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISsioners of
another county, and the mayor and council (by whatever name
known) of a municipal corporation, acting as the governing body
thereof, may determine the circumstances under which the policemen
and other officers, agents and employees of the county or municipal
corporation, together with all necessary equipment, may lawfully go
or be sent beyond the territorial limits of the county, to any point
within or without the State of Maryland.

(b)  In such event the acts performed for this purpose by the
policemen or other officers, agents, or employees and the expendi-
tures made for these purposes by the county or municipal corpora-
tion shall be deemed conclusively to be for a public and governmental
purpose; and all of the immunities from liability enjoyed by a county
or municipal corporation when acting through its policemen or other
officers, agents, or employees for a public or governmental purpose
within its territorial limits shall be enjoyed by it to the same extent
when the county or municipal corporation is so acting, under this
subtitle or under other lawful authority, beyond its territorial limits.

(c)   The policemen and other officers, agents, and employees of
any county or municipal corporation, when acting hereunder or
under other lawful authority beyond the territorial limits of the
county or municipal corporation within the State have all the immu-
nities fro