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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 55

entitled to the benefits of this section. Should any benefits
provided by the federal government be less than those provided by
Article 101, the State and its insurer shall furnish the
additional benefit in order to make up the difference between the
benefit provided by the federal government and the similar
benefit required by Article 101. Such insurance shall cover only
those incidents occurring after July 1, 1979 on State active
duty. State active duty is defined as that period of time for
which an employee is ordered to active military duty in the
organized militia of the State of Maryland by order of the
Governor for service in time of civil disorder, natural disaster,
labor disorders, or activities requiring support of the State
militia.

(b) The [ranking line officer] ADJUTANT GENERAL shall pay
the necessary premium or premiums for said policy or policies of
insurance out of appropriations for the militia to be included in
the State budget by the Governor of the State.

29.

All arms, equipment and other property furnished to
organizations of this State shall, when required by the [ranking
line officer] ADJUTANT GENERAL, or a commanding officer of any
such organization be deposited in the armory of the said
organization, and failure to deposit as aforesaid any article of
such property by the person to whom it was issued, ten days after
he shall have been notified, by written notice from the
commanding officer, as aforesaid, to return to the armory, shall
be considered as a misdemeanor, and the person so offending shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding double the value of the
property thus illegally detained, to be recovered on the
complaint of the [ranking line officer] ADJUTANT GENERAL or of
the proper commanding officer as aforesaid, in the same manner as
prescribed for the collection of fines in this article, except
that the money so recovered shall be paid to the [ranking line
officer of the State] ADJUTANT GENERAL, to be by him applied to
the militia fund; or by imprisonment in the county or city jail
for not less than two weeks nor more than two months.

30.

Every officer and enlisted man to whom public property of
the State or United States has been issued shall be personally
responsible to the State for such property, and no one shall be
relieved from such responsibility except it be shown to the
satisfaction of the Governor that the loss or destruction of such
property was unavoidable and in no way the fault of the person
responsible for the same; in all other cases the value of the
property lost or destroyed shall be charged against the person at
fault or the organization to which it had been issued; and such
person or organization, if not relieved from such charge by the
Governor, shall pay the value of such property to the [ranking
line officer] ADJUTANT GENERAL within ninety days after such loss
or destruction. The value of the lost or destroyed property and