Maryland State Personnel and Pensions Section 11-207

      (a)      An employee being laid off may displace another employee who has the least seniority points:

            (1)      in the same class or job series as the employee being laid off; or

            (2)      in any other class in which the laid-off employee previously held satisfactory nonprobationary status within the 36 months immediately prior to the effective date of the layoff.

      (b)      Subsection (a) of this section shall apply:

            (1)      first to the employee's current appointing authority regardless of geographical area;

            (2)      if the provisions in paragraph (1) of this subsection are not available, to the employee's current principal unit; or

            (3)      a secretary or head of a State principal unit may limit the displacement within the principal unit to one or more of the established geographical areas as prescribed by the Secretary.