Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

BY adding to

Article 65 - Militia
Section 7

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

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

Article 65 - Militia

1.

All able-bodied citizens of the State and all able-bodied persons of foreign birth,
who have declared their intentions to become citizens of the State, and who are
residents therein, shall constitute the militia, subject to the following exemptions: (1)
persons exempted by the laws of the United States; (2) persons exempted by the laws
of Maryland; (3) the members of any regularly organized fire or police department in
any COUNTY, city, village or town; (4) judges and clerks of courts of record, registers of
wills and deeds, sheriffs, [ministers of the Gospel, members of religious communities,
ecclesiastical students in the various seminaries and schools of divinity,] CLERGY,
practicing physicians, superintendents, officers and assistants of hospitals, prisons
and jails; [all persons actually employed as teachers in any established school, college
or university; lighthouse keepers, conductors and engineers of railways, seamen
actually employed as such; idiots, lunatics, paupers, vagabonds, confirmed
drunkards,] (5) ADJUDICATED INCOMPETENTS, persons addicted to the use of
narcotic drugs, and persons convicted of infamous crimes[; all]. ALL such exempted
persons, except as enumerated in items (1) and [(2)] (2), shall be available for military
duty in case of war, insurrection, invasion or imminent danger thereof. Whenever the
masculine gender is used in this article, it also includes the feminine gender, unless
otherwise provided by law.

2.

When the militia of this State, or any part thereof, is called or ordered under the
Constitution and laws of the United States, into the active military service of the
United States, the Governor [shall] MAY order out for service the organized militia,
or such part thereof as may be necessary [and if] IF the number available [be] IS
insufficient [he shall], THE GOVERNOR MAY order out such part of the unorganized
militia as he may deem necessary.

[3.

Whenever any portion of the militia shall be on duty pursuant to the orders of
the Governor, or shall be on duty or ordered to assemble for duty in time of war,
insurrection, invasion, public danger or to aid the civil authorities on account of any
breach of the peace, tumult, riot, resistance to process of this State, or imminent
danger thereof, or for any other cause, the articles of war governing the Army of the