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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 388

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 689(c) (1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 689(c)(1) 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hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read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

689.

(a)    The correctional and reformatory institutions
under the Department of Correction are:

(b)    The Maryland Penitentiary.

(c)    The Maryland House of Correction.

[(1) When any person is convicted before any
justice of the peace having criminal jurisdiction, of any
misdemeanor, committed after October 1, 1916, and
punishable by imprisonment in jail, or by fine and
imprisonment in jail (other than imprisonment in default
of fine), the justice of the peace may sentence such
person to be confined in the Maryland House of
Correction; and all sentences of imprisonment for over
six months imposed by the justice upon such person shall
be to the Maryland House of Correction. All sentences
to the Maryland House of Correction under this section
may be for a term of imprisonment up to but not exceeding
the maximum term in jail which the justice might have
imposed for the offense committed had this section not
been enacted; provided, however, that in no case
whatsoever may any justice sentence any person to
imprisonment in the Maryland House of Correction for more
than three years nor for less than three months, except
that any sentence under § 445 of this article may be
imposed in accordance with the provisions of said § 445.
Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent any
justice having jurisdiction from committing any minor to
any industrial school or juvenile reformatory to which
minors may now be committed under existing law.]

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