864                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 627

tion pursuant to Article HI hereof or at the time that a request for
custody or availability is initiated pursuant to Article IV hereof.

(c) "Receiving state" shall mean the state in which trial is to be
had on an indictment, information or complaint pursuant to Article
III or Article IV hereof.

ARTICLE III
616D.

(a)   Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment
in a penal or correctional institution of a party state, and whenever
during the continuance of the term of imprisonment there is pend-
ing in any other party state any untried indictment, information, or
complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against
the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial within one hundred eighty
days after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting
officer and the appropriate court of the prosecuting officer's juris-
diction written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his
request for a final disposition to be made of the indictment, infor-
mation or complaint;: provided that for good cause shown in open
court, the prisoner or his counsel being present, the court having
jurisdiction of the matter may grant any necessary or reasonable
continuance. The request of the prisoner shall be accompanied by a
certificate of the appropriate official having custody of the prisoner,
stating the term of commitment under which the prisoner is being
held, the time already served, the time remaining to be served on
the sentence, the amount of good time earned, the time of parole
eligibility of the prisoner, and any decisions of the State parole
agency relating to the prisoner.

(b)   The written notice and request for final disposition referred
to in sub-section (a) hereof shall be given or sent by the prisoner to
the warden, commissioner of corrections or other official having
custody of him, who shall promptly forward it together with the
certificate to the appropriate prosecuting official and court by regis-
tered or certified mail, return receipt requested.

(c)   The warden, commissioner of corrections or other official
having custody of the prisoner shall promptly inform him of the
source and contents of any detainer lodged against him and shall
also inform him of his right to make a request for final disposition
of the indictment, information or complaint on which the detainer
is based.

(d)  Any request for final disposition made by a prisoner pursuant
to sub-section (a) hereof shall operate as a request for final disposi-
tion of all untried indictments, informations or complaints on the
basis of which detainers have been lodged against the prisoner from
the state to whose prosecuting official the request for final disposition
is specifically directed. The warden, commissioner of corrections or
other official having custody of the prisoner shall forthwith notify
all appropriate prosecuting officers and courts in the several juris-
dictions within the state to which the prisoner's request for final
disposition is being sent of the proceeding being initiated by the
prisoner. Any notification SENT pursuant to this sub-section shall be
accompanied by copies of the prisoner's written notice, request, and
the certificate. If trial is not had on em ANY indictment, information