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Terms Used In Maryland Code, CRIMINAL LAW 5-201

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • state: means :

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

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) The Department, those of its officers, agents, inspectors, and representatives whom the Secretary designates, and each police officer and State’s Attorney in the State shall:

(1) enforce the provisions of this title that are not specifically delegated; and

(2) cooperate with each unit that enforces any federal, state, or local law relating to controlled dangerous substances.

(b) The Department may:

(1) arrange for the exchange of information between governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of dangerous substances;

(2) coordinate and cooperate in training programs on dangerous substance law enforcement at the local and State levels;

(3) eradicate wild or unlawfully grown plants from which controlled dangerous substances may be extracted; and

(4) cooperate with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration by establishing a centralized unit that will:

(i) accept, catalogue, file, and collect statistics obtained from law-enforcement units, including records of drug dependent persons convicted of drug crimes and of other offenders who violate dangerous substance laws in the State; and

(ii) make the statistics available for federal, State, and local law-enforcement purposes.