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S.B. 604
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VETOES
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emergency management who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon the
recommendation of the mayor, the executive, or governing body of the respective
political subdivision. Each director of a local organization shall have direct
responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the respective
local organization for emergency management. Each local director shall be subject to
the direction and control of the mayor, executive, or governing body of the respective
subdivision, under general power of the Governor. The local organization shall include
such positions and programs as may be recommended from time to time by the
Maryland Emergency Management Agency to meet federal and State standards,
subject to the budgets of the local jurisdictions.
(2) Each local organization whose jurisdiction falls within the plume or
ingestion zone of a commercial nuclear reactor or which might be reasonably expected
to host evacuees from another jurisdiction within a plume or ingestion zone shall
submit to the State Director a radiological emergency response plan. The emergency
response plan for a jurisdiction within a plume zone shall provide for evacuation of
the residents of the political subdivision as a result of an emergency or major disaster
caused by a dangerous release of radiation.
(b) In any county, or Baltimore City, in which there is a local merit system or
classified service for the general employees of that political subdivision, the
employees and officers of the local organization for emergency management (except
the director) shall be included in and subject to all rights, duties, privileges, and
responsibilities of that system or service.
(c) (1) If the county or Baltimore City does not have such a local merit
system or classified service, the county commissioners or county council, or the board
of estimates of Baltimore City, may include by regulation the employees and officers
of the local organization for emergency management (except the director) in the
classified service of the State Personnel Management System.
(2) Except as otherwise provided by law, during the effective period of
any such regulation, the said employees and officers shall be subject to the rights,
duties, privileges, and responsibilities of the provisions of Division I of the State
Personnel and Pensions Article, with the particular board of county commissioners or
county council, or the Mayor of Baltimore City, as the appointing officer thereunder.
(3) The provisions of this subsection may not be construed or applied to
remove from the particular board of county commissioners or county council or from
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore power to establish and regulate the
compensation, vacation allowance, and sick leave of all such employees and officers in
the respective political subdivisions.
(D) IN ALLEGANY COUNTY, THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
SHALL BE HIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PERSONNEL POLICY AND PROCEDURES
OF THE COUNTY AND SHALL BE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE COUNTY.
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2002.
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