MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1255

crimes.

BY adding to

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 643B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 643B be and it is hereby added
to Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1974
Supplement) to read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

643B.

(A) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CRIME OF
VIOLENCE" MEANS ABDUCTION: ARSON; KIDNAPPING;
MANSLAUGHTER. EXCEPT IN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER; MAYHEM;"
MURDER; RAPE; AND ROBBERY; OR AN ATTEMPT TO COMMIT ANY OF
THESE OFFENCES.

(B) ANY PERSON WHO HAS SERVED THREE SEPARATE TERMS OF
CONFINEMENT IN A CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION [[WITHIN THE
JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION OR THE
PATUXENT INSTITUTION]] AS A RESULT OF THREE SEPARATE
[[FELONY CONVICTIONS AND WHO IS CONVICTED OF A SUBSEQUENT
FELONY]] CONVICTIONS OF ANY CRIME OF VIOLENCE SHALL BE
SENTENCED , ON BEING CONVICTED A FOURTH TIME OF A CRIME
OF VIOLENCE, TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF PAROLE. REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER LAW TO THE CONTRARY,
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION ARE MANDATORY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 254
(Senate Bill 286)

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