MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

1811

CHAPTER 653

(House Bill 368)

AN ACT concerning

Requests — Final Disposition of Prisoners' Indictments

FOR the purpose of clarifying procedures for a request
for disposition of an indictment; removing obsolete
references to the Division of Correction,
specifically including the Patuxent Institution
within the new provisions; requiring the official
having custody of a prisoner to file a request for
final disposition of an untried indictment
outstanding against the prisoner if the prisoner
requests him to do so; providing in certain
circumstances for the dismissal of an outstanding
indictment against a prisoner if the prisoner is not
informed of the indictment's existence within a
certain period; making certain provisions mandatory;
[[providing that the section be liberally construed;
providing that certain officials adopt policies and
practices to assure compliance with certain
requirements;]] and generally relating to a
prisoner's request for final disposition of charges.

BY repealing

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 616S(a), (b) , and (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY renumbering

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 616S(d)

to be Section 616S(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 616S(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 616(a), (b), and (c) of Article
27 — Crimes and Punishments, of the Annotated Code of