PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 3

review with the Board within ten days after receipt of written notice of the
[Superintendent's] SECRETARY'S final action. The Board shall, within 90 days after
receipt of the request, either review the record developed by the [Superintendent]
SECRETARY, or conduct a hearing. In conducting its review of the decision of the
[Superintendent] SECRETARY, the Board may receive and consider any additional
evidence submitted by any party. Based upon its consideration of the record, and any
additional evidence, the Board shall either sustain, reverse or modify the decision of the
[Superintendent] SECRETARY. If the action taken by the Board results in the rejection
of an application for a permit or renewal of a permit or the revocation or limitation of a
permit, the Board shall submit in writing to that person the reasons for the action taken
by the Board.

(4) Any person whose application for a permit or renewal of a permit has
not been acted upon by the [Superintendent] SECRETARY within 90 days after the
application was submitted, may request the Board for a hearing by filing a written request
for such a hearing with the Board.

(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subheading, the following persons
may, to the extent authorized prior to March 27, 1972, and subject to the conditions
specified in this subsection and subsection (j) hereof, continue to wear, carry, or transport
a handgun without a permit:

(2) Uniformed security guards, special railway police, and watchmen who
have been cleared for such employment by the DEPARTMENT OF [Maryland] State
Police, while in the course of their employment or while traveling to or from the place of
employment;

(j) Each person referred to in subsection (i) hereof shall, within one year after
March 27, 1972, make application for a permit as provided in this section. Such
application shall include evidence satisfactory to the [Superintendent] SECRETARY of
the [Maryland] State Police that the applicant is trained and qualified in the use of
handguns. The right to wear, carry, or transport a handgun provided for in subsection (i)
hereof shall terminate at the expiration of one year after March 27, 1972, if no such
application is made, or immediately upon notice to the applicant that his application for
a permit has not been approved.

(k) As used in this section, [Superintendent] SECRETARY means the
[Superintendent] SECRETARY of the [Maryland] State Police, acting directly or
through [his] duly authorized officers and agents OF THE SECRETARY.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Subsections (a), (b), (d), (f), (g)(1) and (3), (h)(2) and (4), (i)(2), (j), and (k)
of this section are amended to reflect the establishment of the Department of
State Police as a principal department of State government by Chs. 165 and
166, Acts of 1994, to reflect the status of the head of the Department as a
Secretary of a principal department of State government, to make stylistic
changes, and to delete surplus language.

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