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And in some cases it depends on the county or local municipalities. Maryland for example has devolved a ton of its day to day administration to the individual counties. Each county has wide latitude to setup its local government as it sees fit. Which leads to interesting quirks like liquor laws being different in each county. Even local law enforcement isn't the same statewide. Historically Maryland elected sheriffs in each county and gave them wide latitude to arrest anyone anywhere in the state. Most urban counties have small sheriff departments that are only used as officers of the court and large local police departments with defined jurisdictions. Rural counties just have large sheriff departments. It doesn't really matter except that the head of local law enforcement is elected in sheriff only counties and appointed in police department counties. And since we also elect local states attorneys, it can lead to all kinds of fun when anyone of those three are from a different party then the other two. The other state that I have good knowledge of is VA, which most fun quirk is it's off year gubernatorial elections that don't match up with any other elections.
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