674                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 125

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby
empowered at any and all times during the progress of the
work herein authorized and any and all parts thereof, at its
own expense, to maintain an efficient police service for the
purpose of preserving the public peace, protecting property
and preventing crime within the territory occupied or used
by it or its employees in the prosecution of said work, or
by the employees of contractors or sub-contractors engaged
on such work; the officers so employed by said City to have
the power to make arrests of persons offending within such
territory, wherever found within the State; such offenders
shall be tried in the county in which the offense may be
committed, and in the event of conviction and imposition of
a jail sentence, whether by the Circuit Court for such
county, or [any Justice or the Peace] THE DISTRICT COURT
thereof, shall be committed to the Baltimore City Jail
instead of to the county jail; and, in all such cases, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall reimburse the
county in which such offense is committed for all costs and
expenses actually incurred by it, including the sum of
eighty-five cents per day for every person committed for
trial to the jail of such county, in proceedings against,
and the trial and commitment of, such offenders, court costs
to be prorated by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for such
county upon the basis of time actually consumed in such
trials or other proceedings; all such costs to be adjusted
and paid semi-annually. Said police service as to any
county affected by the provisions of this subheading shall
be subject to the supervision and direction of the sheriff
or chief of the police force of such county.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 126

(Senate Bill 714)

AN ACT concerning

Primary Elections - Date Change

FOR the purpose of requiring the primary elections in each
year in which a national convention is held for the
nomination of candidates for President and Vice
President to be held on a certain date.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code
Section 5-2(a)