Emergency plan rules in Maryland
One license type researched, regulated by Maryland Department of Health — Office of Health Care Quality. Every requirement below carries the rule that imposes it.
Assisted living / residential care
Licensed in Maryland as Assisted Living Program.
COMAR 10.07.14.47 (Emergency Preparedness; chapter revised April 28, 2025); Md. Code, Health-General §19-1812 (emergency generators, programs with 50 or more residents)
Fire drills quarterly. Separately, emergency and disaster drills twice a year, alternating between evacuating residents and sheltering in place.
That matches the most common figure across the states we have confirmed.
Drill records kept for at least 2 years.
Staff must be oriented to the emergency and disaster plan within 24 hours of commencing job duties.
COMAR 10.07.14.47The emergency plan must provide for 72 hours of operating capacity.
COMAR 10.07.14.47The plan must provide for tracking residents during an emergency. Each resident's medical fact sheet travels with the resident and is reviewed monthly.
COMAR 10.07.14.47The program must have written agreements with alternate facilities and with transportation providers for use in an emergency.
COMAR 10.07.14.47An emergency is a reportable incident and must be reported within 24 hours.
COMAR 10.07.14.47A program with 50 or more residents must have an emergency generator that starts within 10 seconds, keep fuel for 48 hours, and test the generator for 30 minutes every month.
Md. Code, Health-General §19-1812- agency — The foundation cites COMAR 10.07.14 but does not name the licensing office. Open the Maryland Department of Health, Office of Health Care Quality assisted living page and COMAR 10.07.14 (Division of State Documents, COMAR online) and confirm the office that licenses assisted living programs.
Reviewed 2026-09-28
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Everything else we’ve researched about Maryland
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Maryland rent late fees & grace periodWhat may be charged when rent is late, and the notice to send.
- Maryland notice to pay rent or quitHow many days' notice before a nonpayment filing, counted on a calendar.
- Maryland deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Maryland deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Maryland deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
- Maryland move-in condition reportThe walkthrough record that decides deposit arguments later.
What this page is
The requirements Maryland places on a facility emergency preparedness plan, taken from the state’s own rules rather than a national template. Where we have confirmed something against primary text it is stated plainly; where we have not, it says so and names what to check. Nothing here is inferred from what other states do.
The part that is the same everywhere
The federal layer does not vary by state, and it is narrower than it is usually described. OSHA 29 CFR §1910.38 does not bind every employer on its own — by its applicability paragraph it governs an emergency action plan whenever another OSHA standard requires the employer to have one, and it then settles what that plan must contain. The CMS emergency preparedness rule applies by certified provider type rather than by building. That layer, plus the exit-route, alarm and first-aid rules and the fire code’s plan structure, is covered in the main crash course rather than repeated on all fifty state pages.
Write the plan
The Emergency Plan Builder produces the document itself. It reads the same research as this page, but it does not yet carry every requirement here into the plan it writes, so check the plan against this page before you rely on it for Maryland. The Compliance Calendar puts the drills and inspections on dates.