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Ch. 715
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Approved May 26, 1977.
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CHAPTER 716
(Senate Bill 506)
AN ACT concerning
Sexual Attack Offense on Prison Inmate
FOR the purpose of prohibiting sexual assaults upon prison
inmates by other inmates; requiring custodial
officers to aid the victim of sexual assault; and
establishing a sentence for violation.
FOR the purpose of providing a certain sentence for
certain prison inmates who are convicted of a
certain sexual offense on another prison inmate.
BY adding to
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
Section 692A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 692A be and it is hereby added
to Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1976 Replacement Volume and 1976
Supplement) to read as follows:
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
692A.
(A) ANY INMATE OF ANY PENAL OR TREATMENT
INSTITUTION ADMINISTERED BY THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION
WHO, BY FORCE, INTIMIDATION, OR THREATS, COMPELS ANOTHER
INMATE TO COMMIT OR SUBMIT TO ANY UNNATURAL OR PERVERTED
SEXUAL PRACTICE AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 554 OF THIS
ARTICLE, OR ANYONE WHO AID OR ABETS IN THE COMMISSION OF
THE ACT, IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, IS GUILTY OF A FELONY,
AND UPON CONVICTION, SHALL BE SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT
FOR NOT LESS THAN TEN YEARS. THAT SENTENCE SHALL BE
SERVED CONSECUTIVELY TO THE BALANCE OF THE SENTENCE OR
SENTENCES BEING SERVED BY THE INMATE AT THE TIME OF THE
COMMISSION OF THE OFFENSE, AND MAY NOT BE REDUCED OR
SUSPENDED AT ANY TIME BY THE SENTENCING OR ANY OTHER
JUDGE.
(A) ANY INMATE OF ANY PENAL OR TREATMENT
INSTITUTION ADMINISTERED BY THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION
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