WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 777

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved June 2, 1987...

CHAPTER 777

(Senate Bill 475)

AN ACT concerning

Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights - Emergency Suspension

FOR the purpose of authorizing the emergency suspension with pay
of a law enforcement officer under certain circumstances;
authorizing the chief of a law enforcement officer to
suspend the police powers of an officer suspended with pay
and to reassign that officer to certain duties pending
certain judicial or administrative determinations concerning
criminal or police departmental violations by the officer;
authorizing emergency suspension without pay of a law
enforcement officer under certain circumstances; providing
for a prompt hearing; and generally relating to emergency
suspension of law enforcement officers.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 734A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

734A.

The provisions of this subtitle are not intended to prohibit
summary punishment or emergency suspension by higher ranking
law-enforcement officers as may be designated by the head of a
law-enforcement agency.

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