(vi) The police department, bureau, or force of any bicounty agency
or constituent institution of the University System of Maryland, Morgan State
University, St. Mary's College, or of any institution under the jurisdiction of the
Maryland Higher Education Commission;

(vii) The Mass Transit Administration police force of the Department
of Transportation, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police Force, and the
Maryland Port Administration police force of the Department of Transportation;

(viii) The law enforcement officers of the Department of Natural

Resources;

(ix) The Investigative Services Unit of the Comptroller's Office; [or]

(x) The Crofton Police Department; OR

(XI) THE INTERNAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.

(4) "Correctional institution" means a place of detention or correctional
confinement operated by or for the State or a local government.

(5) (i) "Correctional officer" means a member of a correctional unit
who is charged with and actually performs those duties that relate to the
investigation, care, custody, control, or supervision of persons confined to places of
incarceration.

(ii) "Correctional officer" includes any sheriff, warden,
superintendent, or any other person having an equivalent title.

(6) "Medical care facility" means a hospital as defined in § 19-301 of this
title or a health care facility of a correctional institution.

(b) While treating or transporting an ill or injured patient to a medical care
facility or while acting in the performance of duty, if a paid or volunteer fire fighter,
emergency medical technician, or rescue squadman comes into contact with a patient
who is subsequently diagnosed as having a contagious disease or virus, as a result of
information obtained in conjunction with the services provided during the visit to the
facility, the attending physician, medical examiner, a designee of the medical care
facility who receives the patient, the Chief Medical Examiner, or the Chief Medical
Examiner's designee shall notify the fire fighter, emergency medical technician, or
rescue squadman, and the employer or employer's designee of the individual's
possible exposure to the contagious disease or virus.

(c) If, while treating or transporting an ill or injured patient to a medical care
facility or while acting in the performance of duty, a law enforcement officer comes
into contact with a patient who is subsequently diagnosed, as a result of information
obtained in conjunction with the services provided during the visit to the facility, as
having a contagious disease or virus, the attending physician, medical examiner, a
designee of the medical care facility who receives the patient, the Chief Medical
Examiner or the Chief Medical Examiner's designee shall notify the law enforcement