MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

2345

70A.

(a) As used in this section:

(1)   "Approved police training school" [shall mean]
MEANS a school approved and authorized by the Police
Training Commission to offer police training and security
training programs as prescribed in this section.

(2)   "Commission" [shall mean] MEANS the Police
Training Commission or officers or employees thereof
acting on its behalf.

(3)   "County" [shall mean] MEANS any county which
within its jurisdiction has or [shall] WILL have a
law—enforcement unit as defined in this section.

(4)   "Law—enforcement unit" [shall mean] MEANS any
governmental police force, security force or
law-enforcement organization of the State, county, or
municipality which has by statute or ordinance, the
responsibility of detecting crime [and/or] OR enforcing
the general criminal laws of this state.

(5)     "Municipality" [shall mean] MEANS any
incorporated city of any class which, within its
jurisdiction has or [shall] WILL have a law—enforcement
unit as defined in this section.

(6)   "Permanent appointment" [shall mean] MEANS any
appointment having permanent status as a police officer
or security officer in a law—enforcement unit as
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] MEANS a
full—time police officer employed by a governmental
agency having administrative responsibility.

(8)    "Police Officer" [shall mean] MEANS a members
of a police force, sheriff's office, or other
law—enforcement organization of State, county or
municipal government who is responsible for the
prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of
the laws of the State as defined in § 70A (a) (4) of this
act, but [shall] DOES not include any person serving as
such solely by virtue of his occupying any other office
or position, nor [shall such] DOES THE term include a
sheriff. 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