J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      863

jurisdiction in which such untried indictment, information, or
complaint is pending; to provide for the effect of such requests
and of failure to hold trials of such untried indictments, infor-
mations and complaints within specified periods; to provide for the
crime of escape by a person legally detained or confined in any
correctional institution or facility in this State who escapes from
the temporary custody of another party state to said Agreement;
to empower the Attorney General and other State officers to carry
out certain provisions of said Agreement and to promulgate rules
and regulations relating thereto; to provide for the manner of
construing said Agreement; and relating generally to an Interstate
Agreement on Detainers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 616A through 616R, inclusive, be and they are
hereby added to Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition and 1964 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", to
be under the new sub-title "Detainers", and the new sub-headings
"Interstate Agreement on Detainers" and "Supplemental Provi-
sions", to follow immediately after Section 616 thereof, and to read
as follows:

DETAINERS

Interstate Agreement on Detainers
616 A.

The contracting states solemnly agree that:

ARTICLE I
616B.

The party states find that charges outstanding against a prisoner,
detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints,
and difficulties in securing speedy trial of persons already incar-
cerated in other jurisdictions, produce uncertainties which obstruct
programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. Accordingly, it
is the policy of the party states and the purpose of this agreement
to encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition of such charges
and determination of the proper status of any and all detainers
based on untried indictments, informations, or complaints. The party
states also find that proceedings with reference to such charges and
detainers, when emanating from another jurisdiction, cannot prop-
erly be had in the absence of cooperative procedures. It is the further
purpose of this agreement to provide such cooperative procedures.

ARTICLE II
616C.

As used in this agreement:

(a)  "State" shall mean a state of the United States; the United
States of America; a territory or possession of the United States;
the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b)  "Sending state" shall mean a state in which a prisoner is
incarcerated at the time that he initiates a request for final disposi-