HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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1.

All able-bodied [male] citizens of the State and all
able-bodied [males] PERSONS of foreign birth, who have declared
their intentions to become citizens of the State, and who are
residents therein, shall constitute the militia, subject to the
following exemptions: (1) persons exempted by the laws of the
United States; (2) persons exempted by the laws of Maryland; (3)
the members of any regularly organized fire or police department
in any city, village or town; (4) judges and clerks of courts of
record, registers of wills and deeds, sheriffs, ministers of the
Gospel, members of religious communities, ecclesiastical students
in the various seminaries and schools of divinity, practicing
physicians, superintendents, officers and assistants of
hospitals, prisons and jails; all persons actually employed as
teachers in any established school, college or university;
lighthouse keepers, conductors and engineers of railways, seamen
actually employed as such; (5) idiots, lunatics, paupers,
vagabonds, confirmed drunkards, persons addicted to the use of
narcotic drugs, and persons convicted of infamous crimes; all
such exempted persons, except as enumerated in items (1) and (2)
shall be available for military duty in case of war,
insurrection, invasion or imminent danger thereof. [Whenever the
masculine gender is used in this article, IT ALSO INCLUDES THE
FEMININE GENDER, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW it is to be
understood as including any female citizens of this State who
voluntarily enlist in the organized militia.]

5.

The militia of this State shall be divided into two classes:
The organized militia and the unorganized militia. The organized
militia of the State shall consist of officers appointed and
commissioned by the Governor, and of such able-bodied [male]
citizens of the State, and such able-bodied [males] PERSONS of
foreign birth as have declared their intentions to become
citizens of the State, resident therein, as shall be regularly
enlisted therein, including the National Guard, the State Guard
and the reserve militia (Minute Men). A military office for
which no salary is provided in the budget shall not be considered
an office of profit.

The unorganized militia shall consist of all those liable to
serve but not regularly enlisted.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.