1948

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch 535

(c)  At least annually, the officer or his designated
representative shall inspect the regional detention and
correctional centers, the several county and Baltimore City
jails, lockups, jail farms and other such places of
detention. The officer will submit a report to the county
commissioners of the several counties and the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, showing the results of such inspection
together with recommendations as to any improvements or
construction which should be made. In the event the officer
finds that the regional detention or correctional center,
the jail or other such place does not meet the minimum
standards as heretofore promulgated, copies of the report
and recommendations shall be forwarded to the governing body
of the political subdivision or subdivisions and the State's
attorney and circuit court judges for the county or counties
or Baltimore City. In the event that such deficiencies are
not substantially corrected within 180 days so that the said
regional detention and correctional center, jail or other
place of detention meets suitable standards, the officer
shall order such place closed and all prisoners therein
shall be transferred to and shall be accepted in a suitable
place of detention in the opinion of the Department of
Correctional Services with the expenses therein to be paid
by the governing body of the political subdivision or
subdivisions, as the case may be. Should a regional
detention and correctional center be closed and the
prisoners confined therein transferred to a suitable place
of detention upon said order of the Department of
Correctional Services, the expenses thereof shall be divided
and paid, in equal amounts, by the governing body of the
political subdivisions maintaining, operating or
participating in said regional detention and correctional
center.

(d)  In the event the county commissioners of any
county, or of the counties maintaining, operating or
participating in a regional detention and correctional
center or the mayor and city council of Baltimore provide
for making such required improvements to the regional
detention and correctional center, the jail or other such
places of detention of said county, counties or city, the
State, through the Board of Public Works, shall make
provision for paying one half of the costs of such
construction or improvements, the plans and costs for same
to be approved by the officer, the Department of Correction,
the Department of Public Improvements and the State Planning
Commission.

(e)  In the event a vacancy should occur in the
position of jail programming and inspection officer, or if
the said officer shall be unable by reason of illness or
infirmity to exercise the respective powers and duties
vested in him under the provisions of this subtitle, the
Commissioner of Correction is hereby authorized to fully
exercise in the interim the same to the extent the said jail
programming and inspection officer would otherwise be
entitled.]