# COMAR Title 12 — Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

## Subtitle 11 — Office of the Secretary

### Chapter 06 — Performance of Duty-Related Death Benefits

#### Regulation .05 Benefits Coordinator.

*COMAR 12.11.06.05*

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

B. The Executive Director shall:

  (1) Create and maintain forms necessary to apply for, process a request for, and award a benefit under this chapter;

  (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) 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) Establish and maintain records related to a request for, processing a request for, and awarding a benefit according to an approved retention schedule.