MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1623

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 405
(Senate Bill 1049)
AN ACT concerning

Prince George's County — Community
Correctional Centers

FOR the purpose of requiring a certain approval by the
Prince George's County Council [[and by the County
Executive]] with regard to proposed Community
Correctional Centers, and adding numbering as
appropriate.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments.

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 706(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 706(d) of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
706.

(d) (1) For the purposes of this section the
local governing authority is the mayor and city council,
the executive and county council or in the case of
nonchartered counties, the county commissioners.

(2) IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY [[, LOCAL
GOVERNING AUTHORITY IS DEFINED AS TWO-THIRDS OF THE
COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE.]] IT SHALL
REQUIRE A TWO THIRDS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE COUNTY
COUNCIL TO ACQUIRE BY LEASE OR PURCHASE ANY FACILITY FOR
USE AS A COUNTY CORRECTION CENTER.