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of the Commissioner. He shall be a person with adequate knowledge
of penal institutions and systems and with executive experience
therein. Subject to Departmental policy as established from time to
time by the Commissioner, the Correctional Director is generally in
charge of custodial matters and problems and procedures for treat-
ment and rehabilitation of inmates in the several institutions and
agencies in the Department.

Industries Director

680. The office of Industries Director is created. He shall be ap-
pointed by the Commissioner, for an indefinite term at the pleasure
of the Commissioner. He shall be a person with adequate knowledge
of prison-use and institutional-use programs and with executive ex-
perience therein. Subject to Departmental policy as established from
time to time by the Commissioner, the Industries Director is gener-
ally in charge of prison-use and institutional-use programs and work
in the several institutions and agencies in the Department, including
the so-called state use industries and the work done under the so-
called State Use Industries Fund.

681.

(a) No goods, wares, or merchandise other than livestock, forest,
and agricultural products, and goods, wares, merchandise, or prod-
ucts used in agricultural production (whether contained in the orig-
inal package or otherwise) manufactured, produced, or mined wholly
or in part by convicts or prisoners in the State of Maryland (except
convicts or prisoners on parole or probation), may be sold in this
State except by or for the State of Maryland, to its political subdi-
visions, or a State-aided, owned, controlled, or managed public or
quasi-public institution or agency; or to any department or agency
of the government of the United States, the District of Columbia, any
other State or its political subdivisions, or any foreign country, when
not prohibited by the acts of Congress; or to any charitable, civic,
educational, fraternal, or religious association, institution, or agency
for its own use and not for resale to others; or to any person, firm, or
corporation for purposes of national defense when not prohibited by
the acts of Congress; and except as authorized by this section, such
goods, wares, and merchandise may not be sold either directly or in-
directly to the consuming public; provided, however, that articles of
handicraft made by the inmates of penal AND REFORMATORY
institutions may be sold at retail and not for purposes of resale for
the account of the inmates under such terms, conditions, rules, and
regulations as may be prescribed by the Department of Correction.

(b) If any person, firm, association, or corporation, directly or
indirectly violates the provisions of this section, the person or per-
sons knowingly participating in the violation shall be punished by a
fine of not more than $500. 00 or imprisonment of not more than one
year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

(c) The Department of Correction as funds are made available
may equip the penal and reformatory institutions of the State of
Maryland under its jurisdiction, hereinafter called "producing in-
stitutions", with such plants, machinery, and necessaries as will per-
mit them adequately to supply all goods, wares, merchandise, and
produce required to be purchased by the needs of the State, its po-