MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  1645

AN ACT concerning
Prisoner Transfers — Less Secure Correctional Facilities

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the transfer of maximum or
medium security prisoners to minimum security
correctional facilities or local correctional
facilities unless the Classification Office of the
Division of Correction participates, evaluates,
reviews, and approves each transfer case; and
requiring the Commissioner of Correction to
promulgate rules and regulations necessary to
implement this Act.

BY adding to

Article 27 — crimes and Punishments

Section 690A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 690A be and it is hereby added
to Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1973
Supplement) to read as follows;

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
690A.

(A)    DESPITE ANY PROVISION OF LAS TO THE CONTRARY,
NO PRISONER CONFINED TO A MAXIMUM OR MEDIUM INSTITUTION
OR FACILITY WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION OF
CORRECTION MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A MINIMUM SECURITY
INSTITUTION OR FACILITY WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE
DIVISION OF CORRECTION OR TO A. LOCAL CORRECTIONAL
FACILITY OR DETENTION CENTER WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION,
EVALUATION, REVIEW, AND FINAL APPROVAL, IN EACH CASE, OF
THE CLASSIFICATION OFFICE OF THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION.

(B)    THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION SHALL
PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.

(C)   THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A TRANSFER OF A
PRISONER PURSUANT TO A COURT ORDER AND IN CONNECTION WITH
A PENDING JUDICIAL PROCEEDING.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.