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Terms Used In Maryland Code, CRIMINAL LAW 5-803

  • 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
  • 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
(a) (1) The Secretary of State Police may pay a person the sum of money that the Secretary considers appropriate for information about a violation of this title.

(2) The money shall:

(i) be paid without reference to any reward to which the person may otherwise be entitled by law; and

(ii) be from funds appropriated for the Department of State Police, Intelligence Division.

(b) Money that is expended from appropriations of the Department of State Police, Intelligence Division, for purchase of controlled dangerous substances and that is subsequently recovered shall be reimbursed to the current appropriation for that Department.

(c) The Secretary of State Police may advance money to enforce this section.