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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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Whenever the militia shall be in the active service each and
every member thereof so ordered to active State duty shall be
vested, in enforcing the laws of this State, with all the
authority of peace or police officers for the duration of such
active State duty of such members, and their bailiwick shall
extend throughout the State. Active State service or active duty
as referred to herein shall not include drill periods or
preparation therefor or equivalent training, or annual field
training of the militia while in its capacity as National Guard
of the United States, unless the Governor shall provide
specifically to the contrary. Whenever the militia or any part
thereof shall be in the active service of the State, under the
provisions of this section, the ranking officer of the militia or
such part thereof ordered into active State service, or his
subordinates on active State duty, shall cooperate with local law
enforcement authorities or, as the exigencies of the case may
require, pursuant only to proper order from the Governor,
subordinate the local law enforcement authorities, including the
State Police, to their direction and control and shall assume all
the powers vested in these subordinated law enforcement
authorities. The provisions of this section shall apply to the
State Guard as defined in the militia laws of Maryland, whenever
the State Guard shall be in existence pursuant to law.
62.
[Whenever any part of the National Guard of this State is in
active federal service, the] THE Governor is hereby authorized to
organize and maintain within this State [during such period,
under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe for
the organization, standards of training, instruction and
discipline,] such military forces as the Governor may deem
necessary; and the Governor is authorized to reduce the number of
or disband such forces at any time he deems proper. Such forces
shall be composed of officers, commissioned or assigned, and such
able-bodied [male] citizens of the State, and able-bodied [males]
PERSONS of foreign birth who have declared their intentions to
become citizens, resident in the State, as shall volunteer for
service therein. Such forces shall be additional to and distinct
from the National Guard, and shall be known as the "Maryland
State Guard." Such forces shall be uniformed as the Governor may
prescribe.
[65.
The Governor, when requested by the military or naval
authorities of the United States, or when he deems such action
necessary, is hereby authorized to order out and assign the
Maryland State Guard, any part thereof, or any individual member
or members thereof, for special duty in the guarding and
protection of strategic and essential facilities, utilities,
roads, bridges and other strategic or essential points, sites or
installations in the State. The officers and men of the Maryland
State Guard, while serving on such special guard duty, may
receive, instead of the pay specified in § 32 of this article,
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