PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

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only be exercised in accordance with regulations adopted by the [Superintendent]
SECRETARY of the [Maryland] State Police. Such regulations are not subject to the
provisions of Title 10, Subtitle 1 of the State Government Article.

(3) When acting under the authority granted in this section, any law
enforcement officer shall have all the immunities from liability and exemptions as that of
a law enforcement officer of the DEPARTMENT OF [Maryland] State Police in addition
to any other immunities and exemptions to which the law enforcement officer may
otherwise be entitled. Any law enforcement officers who use the authority granted in this
section shall at all times and for all purposes remain an employee of their respective
employing agency.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Subsections (e) and (f)(1) and (3) 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, and to delete surplus language.

299.

(a)     The [Superintendent] SECRETARY of State Police may pay any person, from
funds appropriated for the DEPARTMENT OF [Maryland] State Police, Intelligence
Division, for information concerning a violation of this subheading, a sum or sums of
money he deems appropriate, without reference to any moieties or rewards to which the
person may otherwise be entitled by law.

(b)     Moneys expended from appropriations of the DEPARTMENT OF [Maryland]
State Police, Intelligence Division, for purchase of controlled dangerous substances and
subsequently recovered shall be reimbursed to the current appropriation for that
[agency] DEPARTMENT.

(c)     The [Superintendent] SECRETARY of THE State Police may advance funds
in connection with the enforcement of this section.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

This section is 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, and to delete surplus
language.

336.

(a) (1) When any physician, pharmacist, dentist, hospital or nurse treats an
individual for an injury which was caused by or shows evidence of having been caused by
an automobile accident or an accident involving a moving vessel or by a lethal weapon, he
or she, or in the case of a hospital, the individual in charge shall, as soon as practicable,
notify either the sheriff of the county, the county police, the DEPARTMENT OF State

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