MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1351

(House Bill 1969)

AN ACT concerning

Juveniles — Detention in Facilities

FOR the purpose of imposing a certain date after which
certain children may not be detained in certain
facilities; repealing a prior enactment which
imposed the same date but which was not codified
because of the revision of certain juvenile laws;
and making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing

Chapter 517 of the Acts of the General Assembly of

1975

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-815(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Chapter 517 of the Acts of 1975, be and it
is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
3—815(d) of Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1975
Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

Article Courts and Judicial Proceedings

3-815.

(d) AFTER JANUARY 1, 1978, [A] A child alleged to
be delinquent may not be detained in a jail or other
facility for the detention of adults, or in a facility in
which children who have been adjudicated delinquent are
detained.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three—fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 4, 1976.