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Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 12-401

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
In this subtitle, “State personnel” means:

(1) a regular employee of the State whose compensation:

(i) is provided by a State appropriation; or

(ii) is paid wholly or partly from State funds;

(2) an employee who is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Budget and Management;

(3) an officer, warrant officer, or enlisted member of the organized militia;

(4) an employee of the Maryland Port Administration, as described in § 6-204(n) of the Transportation Article;

(5) a member or employee of a board of trustees for a community college;

(6) except in Montgomery County, an employee of a county health department;

(7) a member or employee of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners or of a county board of education;

(8) a member of the Board of Visitors of the Maryland School for the Deaf;

(9) a member or employee of a board of supervisors for a soil conservation district;

(10) a person who, as a volunteer, is providing a service to or for the State;

(11) a person who, for or under contract with a unit of the State or a local government, performs an emergency service during a state of emergency under Title 14 of the Public Safety Article;

(12) any other individual who, with or without compensation, holds a position that requires the exercise of discretion and of a part of the sovereignty of the State;

(13) any other State officer or State employee; and

(14) a Montgomery County employee who administers a State program under Title 3, Subtitle 4 of the Human Services Article.