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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 187

shall be [one hundred and fifty dollars] $150 or less, the
same shall be exempt from the payment of any tax under the
provisions of this subtitle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 188

(Senate Bill 81)

AN ACT concerning

Jailbreaks or Escapes — Penalty

FOR the purpose of increasing the confinement penalty for
certain jailbreaks or escapes from certain institutions
and training centers: and declaring this Act to be an
emergency measure to take effect from the date of its
passage.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 139(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

139.

(a) If any offender or person legally detained and
confined in the penitentiary or jail, or house of
correction, or reformatory, or station house, or any other
place of confinement, in this State, escapes he shall be
guilty of a felony and on conviction by the Criminal Court
of Baltimore City or by the circuit court of the county in
which the escape takes place, be sentenced to confinement in
the penitentiary, jail or house of correction for whatever
additional period, not exceeding ten years, as the court may
adjudge. The sentence so imposed shall be consecutive to
the sentence under which the inmate was originally confined
and may not be suspended. However, for escapes from [the
Maryland Correctional Institution — Hagerstown or the
Maryland Correctional Training Center — Hagerstown or] any
juvenile institution which have not involved an assault, the