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examination comes from any such source the Court shall order the
person to be examined by the institution for defective delinquents
to ascertain if he or she is a defective delinquent. The Court also
may make such an order on its own initiative. A copy of any order
for examination shall be served upon the person to be examined.

(d) The request for such an examination shall be by petition filed
with the Court having custody of or jurisdiction over the said person,
stating therein the reasons for suspecting or supposing the presence
of defective delinquency in the said person. The Court in ordering
[the] such examination by the institution for defective delinquents
shall do so by formal written order directed to the Department of
Correction and to the institution for Defective Delinquents.

7.

(b) In addition to the examination provided in the foregoing sub-
paragraph (a), whenever a request has been made to examine any
person for defective delinquency by the State's Attorney or Assistant
State's Attorney, [Chairman of the Board of Correction,] or by the
Court on its own initiative, then such person shall be entitled, upon
request, to be examined by a practitioner of psychiatry of his own
choice for the purpose of determining whether he is a defective
delinquent within the terms of this Act; and the reasonable costs of
such examination shall be defrayed by the State of Maryland from
the appropriations to the Judiciary, in such amount as may be
approved by the Court. The report of examination made by such
psychiatrist shall be submitted in writing addressed to the Court.

11. (Appeal.) From any court order issued under the provisions
of Section 9, or of Section 10, there shall be the same right of
appeal to the Court of Appeals [as after any conviction of felony]
as in other civil proceedings.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 559
(House Bill 307)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 213 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel County (1947 Edition),
being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Circuit Court", providing for
compensation to the crier of the Court for attending to the library.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 213 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

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