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Ch. 99
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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Article - Education
18-601.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "ACT OF TERRORISM" MEANS THE COMMISSION OR ATTEMPTED
COMMISSION OF A CRIME INVOLVING AN ACT DANGEROUS TO HUMAN LIFE WITH
THE INTENT TO:
(I) INTIMIDATE OR COERCE A CIVILIAN POPULATION;
(II) INFLUENCE THE ACTIVITIES OR POLICY OF A UNIT OF
GOVERNMENT THROUGH INTIMIDATION OR COERCION; OR
(III) AFFECT THE CONDUCT OF A UNIT OF GOVERNMENT BY MASS
DESTRUCTION, MURDER, ASSASSINATION, OR KIDNAPPING.
[(2)](3) "Disabled public safety employee" means a State or local public
safety employee who sustains an injury in the line of duty that:
(i) Precludes the individual from continuing to serve or be
employed as a State or local public safety employee; and
(ii) In the case of a volunteer member of a fire department or
ambulance or rescue company or squad, precludes the member from continuing to be
employed in the nonpublic safety occupation in which the member is engaged at the
time of the injury.
[(3)(4) "Surviving spouse" means a person who has not remarried.
[(4)](5) "State or local public safety employee" means a person who is:
(i) A career or volunteer member of a:
1. Fire department;
2. Ambulance company or squad; or
3. Rescue company or squad;
(ii) A law enforcement officer;
(iii) A correctional officer; or
(iv) A member of the Maryland National Guard who was a resident
of this State at the time of death.
(6) (5) "VICTIM OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TERRORIST ATTACKS"
INCLUDES A PERSON WHO IS MEANS A MARYLAND RESIDENT WHO WAS KILLED AS A
RESULT OF THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY AND,
THE ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON IN VIRGINIA AND, OR THE CRASH OF UNITED
AIRLINES FLIGHT 93 IN PENNSYLVANIA.
(b) There is a program of scholarships that are awarded under this section.
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