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

Approved April 3, 1978.

CHAPTER 39

(House Bill 352)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Parole Commission

FOR the purpose of eliminating, until a certain date, the
exclusive power of the Maryland Parole Commission to
hear parole release cases in which the inmate has been
convicted of a homicide or has been convicted of a
violent crime and has served less than one quarter of
his aggregate sentence; 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 41 — Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 110(a)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 41 — Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments

110.

(a) The Commission has the exclusive power to:

(3) Hear cases for parole release in which:

(i) The Commissioner of Correction, after
reviewing the recommendation of the warden or
superintendent, objects to a parole; OR

[-(ii) The inmate has been convicted

of a homicide; OR

(iii) ] (II) The inmate is serving a

sentence of life imprisonment; [-or

(iv) The IN ADDITION TO THE EXCLUSIVE