Maryland Code, PUBLIC SAFETY 4-1011
Terms Used In Maryland Code, PUBLIC SAFETY 4-1011
- 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
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- 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.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In this section, “local law enforcement agency” means:
(1) a police department of a county or municipal corporation in the State; or
(2) the office of the sheriff that provides a law enforcement function in a county or municipal corporation in the State.
(b) For fiscal years 2024 through 2026, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,000,000 for local law enforcement agencies to be used as grants for warrant apprehension efforts.
(c) (1) The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services shall administer the grant funds in accordance with § 4-1008 of this subtitle.
(2) Local law enforcement agencies may use the grant funds for the following purposes:
(i) to reduce warrants in the agency’s jurisdiction;
(ii) to increase coordination and cooperation between local law enforcement and State and federal agencies regarding outstanding warrants; and
(iii) to reduce the number of outstanding warrants related to violent crimes.
(d) The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (b) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to local law enforcement agencies for warrant apprehension efforts.
(e) An eligible local law enforcement agency that receives a grant under subsection (b) of this section shall submit for each fiscal year the following to the Executive Director:
(1) proof of the expenditure of the grant funds and the purposes for which the funds were expended;
(2) total warrants in each county by type of warrant and related offense;
(3) total number of warrants reduced and suspects apprehended, delineated by offense; and
(4) any related outcome-based performance measures as required by § 4-1009 of this subtitle.