826                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 401

(2) The [seven] nonappointive office holders, except the Deputy
Secretary for Public Safety, may elect to serve personally at any or
all meetings of the Commission or may designate a member of their
respective association, office, department, university 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 Deputy Secretary for Public Safety shall be chair-
man of the Commission. The Commission, at its initial organization
meeting to be held promptly after the appointment and qualifications
of its members, and thereafter annually shall elect a [chairman
and] vice-chairman from among its members, and shall meet at such
other times within the State of Maryland as it or its chairman 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 Gover-
nor, the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services and
the legislature as to its activities.

(d)    Subject to the authority of the Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, the [The] Commission is vested with the
following authority, responsibility and duty:

(1)    To prescribe standards for the approval and continuation
of approval of recruit and in-service schools at which police training
courses required by this section shall be conducted, including but not
limited to present existing State, regional, county, and municipal
police training schools ;

(2)    To approve and issue certificates of approval to such police
training schools, to inspect such schools from time to time, and to
revoke for cause any approval or certificate issued to such school;

(3)    To prescribe the curriculum, the minimum courses of study,
attendance requirements, eligibility to attend, equipment and facili-
ties, and standards of operation for such police training schools;

(4)    To prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at such
schools and to certify, as qualified, instructors for approved police
training schools and to issue appropriate certificates to such in-
structors ;

(5)    To certify police officers who have satisfactorily completed
training programs and to issue appropriate certificates to such police
officers;

(6)    To appoint, with the approval of the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services,, an executive secretary, to serve at
its pleasure, who shall perform general administrative functions,
and to fix his compensation;

(7)    To employ such other persons as may be necessary to carry
out the provisions of this section, upon approval of the [Director of