HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

602B.

(d) (1) The governing body of any county or municipal
corporation or the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, [in its discretion,] may enter into
reciprocal agreements for such periods as it deems advisable
with any county, municipal corporation, or the
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission,
[within or without the State] IN OR OUTSIDE THE STATE,
including the District of Columbia, in order to establish
and carry into effect a plan to provide mutual aid through
the furnishing of its police and other employees and agents
together with all necessary equipment in [the event of an
emergency as provided in] ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
CONTAINED IN § 602B(a) of this subtitle. No county,
municipal corporation, or the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission may enter into an agreement unless
the agreement provides that each of the parties to the
agreement shall: (1) waive any and all claims against all
the' other parties thereto which may arise out of their
activities outside their respective jurisdictions under such
agreement; and (2) indemnify [and save harmless] the other
and save harmless the other parties to such agreement from
all claims by third parties for property damage or personal
injury which may arise out of the activities of the other
parties to such agreement, outside their respective
jurisdictions under such agreement.

(2) A RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN ALLEGANY
COUNTY AND A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN THAT COUNTY TO FURNISH
POLICE AND OTHER EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS TOGETHER WITH ALL
NECESSARY EQUIPMENT MAY BE ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH §
602B(A) OF THIS SUBTITLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 6, 1980.

CHAPTER 306

(Senate Bill 347)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland State Lottery - Contracts

FOR the purpose of increasing the maximum period of years
for which contracts for the operation and promotion of
the Maryland State Lottery may be awarded; and