MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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SHALL BE GIVEN PROMPT AND GENERAL PUBLICITY AND SHALL BE
FILED PROMPTLY WITH THE CHIEF LOCAL RECORDS-KEEPING
AGENCY.

(B) THE EFFECT OF A DECLARATION OF A LOCAL STATE
OF EMERGENCY IS TO ACTIVATE THE RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
ASPECTS OF ANY AND ALL APPLICABLE LOCAL STATE OF
EMERGENCY PLANS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE FURNISHING OF AID
AND ASSISTANCE THEREUNDER.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
204A(a) and 204D(d) of Article 41 - Governor - Executive
and Administrative Departments, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 41 — Governor — Executive and
Administrative Departments

204A.

(a) The following departments, agencies, boards,
commissions, offices, divisions, and units of the State
government [shall be] ARE included within the Department
of Public Safety and Correctional Services: the [State]
MARYLAND Civil Defense and [Emergency Planning] DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS Agency established pursuant to § 204D of
this article, the Civil Defense AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Advisory Council, the Criminal Injuries Compensation
Board, the Division of Correction established pursuant to
§ 204D of this article, the Patuxent Institution, the
Board of Patuxent Institution, the Advisory Board for
Defective Delinquents, the Institutional Board of Review,
the State Fire Prevention Commission, the office of State
Fire Marshal, the Police Training Commission, the Board
of Parole, the Division of Parole and Probation
established pursuant to § 204D of this article, the
Sundry Claims Board, the Maryland State Police
established pursuant to § 204D of this article, the
Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and Probation
established pursuant to § 204E of this article, and such
other agencies, boards, commissions, councils, offices,
or units of government as may hereafter pursuant to law
be declared to be part of the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services.

204D.

(d) The Maryland Civil Defense and [Emergency
Planning] DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Agency shall be an agency
of the State government, and such agency is established
and continued as the same Maryland Civil Defense AND