1. A. The Executive Director, or a designee, shall ensure that statutory and regulatory requirements for administration of benefits under this chapter are met.

2. B. The Executive Director shall:

   1. (1) Create and maintain forms necessary to apply for, process a request for, and award a benefit under this chapter;
   2. (2) To the degree possible, establish a network to identify and notify a surviving spouse, child, dependent parent, or estate potentially eligible to receive a benefit under this chapter;
   3. (3) Accept a request for, process a request for, and award to an eligible recipient a benefit under this chapter according to statutory and regulatory requirements; and
   4. (4) Establish and maintain records related to a request for, processing a request for, and awarding a benefit according to an approved retention schedule.

Authority: Correctional Services Article, §2-109; Public Safety Article, §1-202; State Government Article, §9-943; Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: April 18, 1988 (15:8 Md. R. 1015)

Regulation .01 amended effective April 22, 1996 (23:8 Md. R. 607)

Regulation .01A amended effective April 2, 1990 (17:6 Md. R. 742)

Regulation .02 amended effective April 22, 1996 (23:8 Md. R. 607)

Chapter revised effective December 22, 2003 (30:25 Md. R. 1850)

Chapter revised effective April 13, 2015 (42:7 Md. R. 571)