Ch. 5

2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

compact is hereby approved and ratified and every paragraph, clause, provision,
matter and thing in the said compact contained shall be obligatory on this State and
the citizens thereof, and shall be forever faithfully and inviolably observed, and kept
by the government of this State and all of its citizens according to the true intent and
meaning of the said compact.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section formerly was Art. 41, § 17-103.

No changes are made.

14-604. SECRETARY OF STATE TO TRANSMIT COPIES OF COMPACTS.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to prepare and transmit duly
authenticated copies of such compacts and of this act to the governor of each state
entering into such compact, the President of the United States, the President of the
United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, the Secretary of State of the
United States, and the Council of State Governments.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section formerly was Art. 41, § 17-104.

No changes are made.

14-605. SEVERABILITY.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this subtitle shall, for any
reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional and
invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof,
but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or section
thereof so found unconstitutional and invalid.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section formerly was Art. 41, § 17-105.

No changes are made.

GENERAL REVISOR'S NOTE TO SUBTITLE:

In revising the various articles of the Annotated Code, it was the usual practice
of the former Commission to Revise the Annotated Code and article review
committees to make very few, if any, changes to compacts. The Public Safety Article
Review Committee has made no changes to the text of the Interstate Emergency
Management and Civil Defense Compact, which comprises § 14-602 of this subtitle.
To conform to current code revision drafting conventions, catchlines have been added
to sections and subsections of sections of this subtitle. These catchlines, however, are
not law and the addition of catchlines to this subtitle does not affect the substance of
the Compact.

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