CHAPTER 68
(House Bill 9)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 8 and 9 of
Article 83 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement

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CHAPTER 67
(House Bill 5)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 139 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Supplement),
title and subtitle "Crimes and Punishments," subheading "Escap-
ing from Penitentiary," to create the offense of violation of the
conditions of a leave authorization for a prisoner in the State

prison system and to make the penalties for escape from a cor-

rectional institution applicable to such new offense and to specify
the penalty for escape from the correctional institutions at Hagers-
town. TO CORRECT THE NAMES OF THE CORRECTIONAL
INSTITUTIONS REFERRED TO BY NAME IN SAID SECTION.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 139 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Supplement), title and subtitle "Crimes and Punishments,"
subheading "Escaping from Penitentiary," be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

139.

If any offender or person legally detained and confined in the
penitentiary, or jail, or house of correction, or reformatory, or sta-
tion house, or any other place of confinement, in this State, shall
escape or shall violate any of the conditions of a leave authorization
issued pursuant to Section 700B of this Article, he shall be guilty of a
felony and on conviction thereof by the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City or by the circuit court of the county in which the escape takes
place, be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, jail or house
of correction for such additional period, not exceeding ten years, as
the court may adjudge. However, for escapes from the [reformatory
for males] Maryland Correctional Institution—Hagerstown or the
Maryland Correctional Training Center—Hagerstown which have not
involved an assault, the sentence shall not exceed confinement for
three years.

If any keeper, deputy, assistant keeper or other person shall aid or
assist in the escape of any offender or person detained and confined,
as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof
by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by the circuit court of the
county in which the escape takes place, be sentenced to such confine-
ment in the penitentiary, or jail, or the house of correction, as the
court may adjudge, for not more than ten years.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take place
June 1,1967.

Approved March 24, 1967.