MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

2271

CHAPTER 833

(House Bill 1860)

AN ACT concerning

Montgomery County — Placement of Prisoners
MC 74-76

FOR the purpose of permitting certain committing
authorities to have a certain flexibility in
determining where to send certain prisoners in
Montgomery County; and providing for re—designation
of work release/prerelease program violators.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 645T(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

[[BY adding to

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 645T(f), (g), (h) and (i)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)]]

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED    BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Section 645T (a) of Article 27 - Crimes and

Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971

Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is

hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read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

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

645T.

(a)          [[(1)]]         In Montgomery County, whenever a

person is detained or sentenced to the Montgomery County
department of correction and rehabilitation by any court
in the county, the judge ordering the confinement or, if
he is unable to act, then any other judge of the
committing court, at any time during the period of

confinement[,] AFTER A RECOMMENDATION OF THE DEPUTY

DIRECTOR FOR PRERELEASE AND in accordance with THE

SELECTION REQUIREMENTS AND [such] programs [as have been

or will be] WHICH have been or will be enacted by the

County Council of Montgomery County, may [[prescribe that
the person may continue his regular employment, obtain