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53.

In Allegany County any unincorporated association, nonprofit cor-
poration, or cooperative association or other organization which pro-
vides water or sewer services, or both, to the general public on a
nonprofit basis shall have a lien against the property to which such
service was supplied when the charges [therefore] therefor are not
paid. Such lien shall be subject to all the requirements to which a
mechanic's lien on real estate is now subject, including the require-
ment of recording among the appropriate land records in the county
or city where the land is located.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.

CHAPTER 491
(Senate Bill 776)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 6 (c),
6 (e), 7 (a) and 9 (a) of Article 31B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Defective Delin-
quents," subtitle "Defective Delinquents," to disallow an exami-
nation for possible defective delinquency if the person is within
four SIX months of the expiration of his sentence and matters
generally related to that end; to change the time in which exami-
nations for defective delinquency are due to the court; and to
require a person's return to custody after a finding that he is not
a defective delinquent, only if his original sentence has not expired.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 6 (c), 6 (e), 7 (a) and 9 (a) of Article 31B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title
"Defective Delinquents," subtitle "Defective Delinquents," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

6.

(c) Such an examination may be requested and made at any time
after the person has been convicted and sentenced for a crime or
offense specified hereinabove in this section, provided that the said
person has been sentenced to a period of confinement in a penal
institution or is then serving such a sentence. No such examination
shall be ordered or made if the said person has been released from
confinement for the particular crime or offense of which he was
convicted [.] or who is within four SIX months of the expiration of
his sentence.

(e) After the court has ordered an examination to be made under
this section, said person shall be retained in custody, initially of the
Department of Correction until his transfer to Patuxent Institution
and thereafter in the custody of Patuxent Institution, until such