1986                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                            Ch. 718

BETWEEN PROGRAM HOURS OR PERIODS UNLESS THE COURT DIRECTS
OTHERWISE. THE WARDEN MAY CONTRACT, SUBJECT TO THE
PROCEDURE FOR CONTRACTING BY AGENCIES OF BALTIMORE CITY
AND THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, FOR HALFWAY [[HOUSE]]
HOUSES OR OTHER SUITABLE HOUSING FACILITIES FOR THOSE
PRISONERS WHOM THE COURT DIRECTS MAY BE HOUSED THEREIN.

(B) AFTER [[THE]] A SENTENCED PRISONER ENTERS A
[[CORRECTIONAL]] PRESCRIBED PROGRAM, THE JUDGE ORDERING
THE CONFINEMENT OR, IF HE IS UNABLE TO ACT, THEN ANY
OTHER JUDGE OF THE COMMITTING COURT MAY ORDER THE RELEASE
OF THE PRISONER FROM CUSTODY BASED UPON THE WARDEN'S OR
DEPUTY WARDEN'S RECOMMENDATION AND HIS REPORT OF THE
PRISONER'S PERFORMANCE IN A [[CORRECTIONAL]] PROGRAM
PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION OR IN ANY OTHER CORRECTIONAL
PROGRAM.

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

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 719

(House Bill 1022)

AN ACT concerning

Program Open Space — Allocations for Fiscal Year 1977

FOR the purpose of designating Program Open Space
projects which are to be funded under the Outdoor
Recreation Land Loan of 1969 during the fiscal year
1977; resolving any possible doubts about the
validity and effectiveness of such designation which
might arise from a conclusion that such designation
is an appropriation of State debt requiring in the
same measure a provision for collection of an annual
tax or taxes to provide for principal and interest
payments on that debt; and relating generally to the
provisions of the Outdoor Recreation Land Loan of
1969.

By repealing and reenacting, without amendment,

Chapter 403 of the Acts of 1969

Sections 6 and 7

(As amended by Chapter 4 of the Acts of the Special

Session of December 16, 1969; and as repealed and

reenacted without change by Chapter 702 of the Acts

of 1970; Chapter 730 of the Acts of 1971; Chapter

353 of the Acts of 1972; Chapter 481 of the Acts of