Maryland Department of Emergency Management (MDEM). is the department of the Maryland state government with primary responsibility and authority for emergency preparedness policy, and for coordinating hazard mitigation, incident response, and disaster recovery. It is headquartered in Reisterstown , Maryland.
10-802: MDEM's authority derives from Title 14 of the Public Safety Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland . This Article creates MDEM, establishes MDEM as a unit of State government within with the primary purpose to ensure that Maryland will be adequately prepared to deal with emergencies that are beyond the capabilities of local authorities, and authorizes the political subdivisions of the state to create emergency management offices of their own. Currently, there are 26 local emergency management offices in Maryland – all 23 counties, along with Annapolis, Baltimore and Ocean City. Article 14 also gives
20-414: A State Liaison Officer Program. This branch employs regional Liaison Officers that work in the field directly with local emergency managers and emergency responders in six regions: Western Maryland, National Capital Region, Central Maryland, Southern Maryland, Upper Eastern Shore and Lower Eastern Shore. Annotated Code of Maryland The Annotated Code of Maryland , published by The Michie Company ,
30-513: Is one introduced in the House of Delegates (for example: HB 6); a Senate Bill (SB), in the Senate. Bills are designated by number, in the order of introduction in each house. For example, HB 16 refers to the sixteenth bill introduced in the House of Delegates. The numbering starts afresh each legislative session. The names of the legislator who introduced the bill and of any sponsors becomes part of
40-630: Is the official codification of the statutory laws of Maryland . It is organized into 36 named articles. The previous code, organized into numbered articles, has been repealed. The Annotated Code of Maryland is amended through the legislative process involving both bodies of the Maryland General Assembly , the House of Delegates and the Senate . A bill is a proposal to change, repeal, or add to existing state law. A House Bill (HB)
50-668: The bill title. Bills listed as "The Speaker (By Request of Administration)", "The President (By Request of Administration)", "Minority Leader (By Request of Administration)", or "Committee Chair (By Request of Department)" are bills proposed by the Governor and state agencies and are not proposals of the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader, or the respective Committee Chair. They are listed with
60-584: The governor emergency powers—such as temporarily waiving state laws that may interfere with emergency response operations. MDEM has three directorates which are underneath the Office of the Secretary: Disaster Risk Reduction, Consequence Management, and Mission Support. The structure enables MDEM to efficiently support local jurisdictions, work with state agencies, run our internal operations, and provide preparedness information to
70-542: The official title of a legislator rather than the Governor due to requirements in the Maryland Constitution . The legislative procedure , is divided into distinct stages: The Maryland General Assembly gradually recodified the state laws by repealing the versions organized into numbered articles in the black volumes and re-enacting new versions, which were organized into named articles and published in
80-588: The public. The maintenance and operation of the State Emergency Operations Center is also function of MDEM. MDEM operates the Maryland Joint Operations Center ( MJOC ), the agency's twenty-four-hour warning point and communications / operations center. This center is responsible for the coordination of all state of Maryland emergency response resources and operates 24-hours per day. MDEM also operates
90-694: The red volumes. For example, Chapter 26 of the 2002 Laws of Maryland recodified most of Article 27 into the Criminal Law Article. According to the Maryland State Department of Legislative Services, the state legislature committed to the recodification process in 1970. The revised articles were enacted in stages between 1973 and 2016; the 36th and last revised article to be enacted was the Alcoholic Beverages Article in 2016. The purpose of this process
100-400: Was to reorganize the laws, rather than to change their content or meaning. Until the process was completed, the laws of the state of Maryland comprised both sets of volumes. The following is a list of the 36 named articles of the code, with the year of enactment of each. Multiple entries mean that an article was enacted in stages. The last numbered article was 2B Alcoholic Beverages, which
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