HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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the Division of Correction established pursuant to § 204D of
this article, the Patuxent Institution, the Board of
Patuxent Institution, the Board of Review for Patuxent
Institution, the State Fire Prevention Commission, the
office of State Fire Marshal, the Police Training
Commission, the Maryland Parole Commission, 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 Disaster
Preparedness] STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE
Agency shall be an agency of the State government, and such
agency is established and continued as the same Maryland
Civil Defense and [Emergency Planning] DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Agency hitherto existing. The [Maryland Civil Defense and
Disaster Preparedness] STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL
DEFENSE Agency shall be part of the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services. The [Maryland Civil
Defense and Disaster Preparedness] STATE EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE Agency shall have the powers,
duties, responsibilities and functions provided in the laws
of this State for the Maryland Civil Defense and [Emergency
Planning] DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Agency. All references in
this Code, in any other laws of this State, or in
ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, legal actions,
directives, or documents, to the Maryland Civil Defense and
[Emergency Planning] DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Agency shall be
deemed to mean the [Maryland Civil Defense and Disaster
Preparedness] STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE
Agency. From and after July 1, [1975] 1980 1981, all rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions heretofore
conferred upon or exercised by the Maryland Civil Defense
and [Emergency Planning] DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Agency shall
be transferred to and be exercised by the [Maryland Civil
Defense and Disaster Preparedness] STATE EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE Agency, subject to the
authority of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services as set forth in this Code.

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Interstate [Civil Defense and Disaster]
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE Compact

452.

Whereas, the Congress of the United States of America
has enacted the procedure for granting its consent to [civil
defense] EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL DEFENSE compacts by