BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

1945

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 626

(House Bill 796)

AN ACT concerning

Probation — Revocation

FOR the purpose of prescribing the period to which a judge
may sentence a person who is placed on probation and
who subsequently is brought before the court for
sentencing or for a violation of the terms and
conditions of probation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 642

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

642.

Whenever any person [shall have been] IS convicted of
any offense in any of the courts of record[, ] of this State,
having criminal jurisdiction, and the judge presiding
[therein shall not have imposed] DOES NOT IMPOSE sentence or
[shall have suspended] SUSPENDS sentence generally or for a
definite time or [shall have placed] PLACES the offender
upon probation, or [shall have made such other] MAKES
ANOTHER order and [imposed such] IMPOSES other terms as SHE
OR he may deem proper, and [said] THAT person [should] at
any time thereafter [be] IS brought before the court to be
sentenced upon the original charge of his conviction, or for
a violation of the terms and conditions of the order of
probation in the case, the judge who [may] then [be] IS
presiding in that particular court may proceed to sentence
the [said] person TO SERVE THE PERIOD OF IMPRISONMENT
PRESCRIBED IN THE ORIGINAL SENTENCE OR ANY PORTION THEREOF,
OR IF NO SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED, ANY SENTENCE PROVIDED FOR BY
LAW FOR THE CRIME FOR WHICH THAT PERSON WAS ORIGINALLY
CONVICTED.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act