HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Section 70A

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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70A.

(a) As used in this section:

(1)  "Approved police training school" means a school
approved and authorized by the Police Training Commission to
offer police training [and security training] programs as
prescribed in this section.

(2)  "Commission" means the Police Training Commission
or officers or employees thereof acting on its behalf.

(3)  "County" means any county which within its
jurisdiction has or will have a law-enforcement unit as defined
in this section.

(4)  "Law-enforcement unit" means any governmental
police force, sheriff's department, security force or
law-enforcement organization of the State, county, or
municipality which has by statute, ordinance, or common law, the
authority [or the responsibility for detecting crime and] for
enforcing the general criminal laws of this State.

(5)  "Municipality" means any incorporated city of any
class which, within its jurisdiction has or will have a
law-enforcement unit as defined in this section.

(6)  "Permanent appointment" means [any appointment
having permanent status] THE APPOINTMENT OF A PERSON WHO HAS
SATISFACTORILY MET THE MINIMUM STANDARDS OF THE COMMISSION AND IS
CERTIFIED as a police officer [or security officer in a
law-enforcement unit as prescribed by the Annotated Code of
Maryland, local public laws, or of any other law of this State,
municipal ordinance, or rules and regulations adopted
thereunder].

(7)  "Police official" means a full-time police
officer employed by a governmental agency having administrative
responsibility.

(8)  (I) "Police officer" means [a member of a police
force, sheriff's office, or other law-enforcement organization of
State, county or municipal government who has the authority or is