1000                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 540

report and recommendations to be forwarded, under certain cir-
cumstances, to designated officials, requiring the jail programming
and inspection officer, under certain circumstances, to order the
closing of regional detention and correctional centers and the
transfer of prisoners confined therein to a suitable place of de-
tention at the expense of the governing body of the political
subdivisions maintaining, operating or participating in a regional
detention and correctional center and extending authority to the
Commissioner of Correction, under certain designated circum-
stances, to exercise any of the powers and duties vested in the
jail programming and inspection officer by law.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsections (c) and (d) of Section 704 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume, 1967 Supplement), title
"Crimes and Punishment," subtitle "Places of Reformation and
Punishment," subheading "Department of Correction," sub-subhead-
ing "Jail Programming and Inspection Officer," be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and new subsection
(e) be and it is hereby added to Section 704 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume, 1967 Supplement), title
"Crimes and Punishment," subtitle "Places of Reformation and
Punishment," subheading "Department of Correction," sub-subhead-
ing "Jail Programming and Inspection Officer," to follow immediately
after subsection (d) thereof, and to read as follows:

704.

(c) At least annually, the officer or his designated representative
shall inspect the regional detention and correctional centers, the
several county and Baltimore City jails, lockups, jail farms and
other such places of detention. The officer will submit a report to
the county commissioners of the several counties and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, showing the results of such inspection
together with recommendations as to any improvements or construc-
tion which should be made. In the event the officer finds that the
regional detention or correctional center, the jail or other such place
does not meet the minimum standards as heretofore promulgated,
copies of the report and recommendations shall be forwarded to
the governing body of the political subdivision or subdivisions and
the State's Attorney and Circuit Court Judges for the county or
counties or Baltimore City. In the event that such deficiencies are
not substantially corrected within 180 days so that the said regional
detention and correctional center, jail or other place of detention
meets suitable standards, the officer shall order such place closed
and all prisoners therein shall be transferred to a suitable place of
detention in the opinion of the Department of Correction with the
expenses thereof to be paid by the governing body of the political
subdivision or subdivisions, as the case may be; except that in
Baltimore City the requirement for transfer of prisoners shall not
be applicable. Should a regional detention and correctional center
be closed and the prisoners confined therein transferred to a suitable
place of detention upon said order of the Department of Correction,
the expenses thereof shall be divided and paid, in equal amounts, by
the governing body of the political subdivisions maintaining, opera-
ting or participating in said regional detention and correctional
center.