1406                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [Ch. 280

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 139

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 139 of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

139.

(A)       If any offender or person legally detained
and confined in the penitentiary or jail, or house of
correction, or reformatory, or station house, or any
other place of confinement, in this State, [shall escape]
ESCAPES he shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction
[thereof] by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by
the circuit court of the county in which the escape takes
place, be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary,
jail or house of correction for [such] WHATEVER
additional period, not exceeding ten years, as the court
may adjudge. The sentence so imposed shall be
consecutive to the sentence under which the inmate was
originally confined and[shall] MAY not be suspended.
However, for escapes from the Maryland Correctional
Institution—Hagerstown or the Maryland Correctional
Training Center—Hagerstown which have not involved an
assault, the sentence [shall] MAY not exceed confinement
for three years.

(B)         UPON CONVICTION FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS
SECTION, AN ESCAPEE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ALL EXPENSES
INCURRED IN HIS RETURN TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE
DIVISION OF CORRECTION. THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION
MAY ESTABLISH WHATEVER REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES AS MAY
BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHARGING AN ESCAPEE WITH[[, AND
COLLECTION OF, THOSE EXPENSES.]] EXPENSES, COLLECTION OF
THOSE EXPENSES, AND FOR CONDUCT OF ANY HEARING
CHALLENGING THOSE EXPENSES. HOWEVER, THE COMMISSIONER
SHALL NOTIFY THE RETURNED ESCAPEE OF ANY CHARGES. A
HEARING SHALL BE GRANTED TO ANY RETURNED ESCAPEE WHO
WISHES TO CHALLENGE THE REASONABLENESS OF ANY CHARGES.

(C)       If any keeper, deputy, assistant keeper or
other person [shall aid or assist] AIDS OR ASSISTS in