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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 8

Corrective Bill — Patuxent Institution

FOR the purpose of correcting a certain technical error
in the laws relating to the Patuxent Institution.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 318 - Defective Delinquents

Section 2 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED    BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Section 2(a)    of Article 31B - Defective

Delinquents, of the Annotated      Code of Maryland (1971

Replacement Volume and 1975       Supplement) be and it is

thereby repealed and reenacted,    with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 31B - Defective Delinquents

2.

(a) The director is the chief administrative
officer of the Patuxent Institution, and shall be a
trained, able and competent psychiatrist with at least
five years' experience in the practice or teaching of
psychiatry. The director holding office at the time of
the passage of this section shall continue to hold office
at the pleasure of the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services. Any successor as director shall
be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services from a list of three nominees
proposed to the Secretary by a special committee composed
of the professor of psychiatry at the Medical School of
the University of Maryland, the professor of psychiatry
of the Medical School of the Johns Hopkins University,
the deputy secretary for correctional services, and the
chairman of the board of Patuxent Institution. The
Secretary may reject any list of three nominees and
request another list. Three members of the special
committee[ ,] in the absence of the full committee may act
for the committee. The director shall receive a salary
as fixed in the budget, which shall not be less than
$15,000 annually.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved March 16, 1976.

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