SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor 827
therein, revoke said conditional pardon, the person so released on
such conditional pardon shall be required, unless otherwise ordered
by the Governor, to serve the unserved portion of the sentence
originally imposed upon him; and said person, unless otherwise
ordered by the Governor, shall not be considered as serving any
portion of his original sentence during the time he is released by
virtue of such conditional pardon.
121.
The members of the Board of Parole and Probation and all of the
duly qualified officers and PAROLE agents of the Department of
Parole and Probation shall have and are hereby given visitorial pow-
ers over all institutions to which any person may be committed IN
WHICH ANY PERSON MAY BE CONFINED upon a criminal
charge, whether such institution be a State, county, or city institu-
tion; and the said members of said Board of Parole and Probation
shall have power to summon any witness including any prisoner
confined in any State, county, or city institution, before them, and to
administer oaths or affirmations to such witness wherever, in the
judgment of the said members of said Board, it may be necessary for
the effectual discharge of their duties under this subtitle. Any per-
son failing to appear before said members of said Board of Parole
and Probation at the time and place specified, in answer to said
summons, personally served upon said witness, or refusing to testify,
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, WHICH FINE SHALL REVERT TO
THE GENERAL FUND OF THE STATE; false swearing on the
part of any witness testifying before said members of said Board
of Parole and Probation on a matter material to inquiry shall
be deemed perjury.
122.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Board of Parole and Probation of
its own initiative to cause to be made by its employees or to request
the Department of Parole and Probation to make such investigation
as may enable the Board to determine the advisability of granting
parole to persons sentenced under the laws of this State, to the
jurisdiction of the Department of Correction, or to any other place
of confinement or detention of violators of the criminal laws of the
State whenever such prisoner shall have served in confinement one-
fourth of such term or consecutive terms.
(b) No person who has been sentenced to life imprisonment shall
be eligible for parole consideration until he shall have served in
confinement fifteen years. Prisoners serving terms of life imprison-
ment shall only be paroled with the approval of the Governor.
123.
Whenever any paroled prisoner shall be convicted of any crime
committed while on parole, and shall be sentenced as a penalty
therefor, to an additional period of incarceration in any institution
within this State, the time to be served on the original term shall run
consecutive to such now sentence, and be served in confinement prior
to the beginning of such now sentence, unless expressly ordered to
WITHIN THIS STATE, SUCH NEW SENTENCE SHALL RUN
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