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VETOES

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

690.

(a)  The provisions of this section are applicable to
any judge of the circuit court for any county, the judges of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore and any judge of the
District Court, exercising criminal jurisdiction, and all of
such persons are described herein as "judge."

(b)  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this
article or any other law to the contrary, [on and after June
1, 1967,] judges, in the sentencing of convicted persons
[(1)] for any offense for which the provisions of this
article or any other law requires the imprisonment to be
served at any one of those institutions enumerated in § 689
of this article [or (2) any offense for which prior to June
1, 1967, the sentence was made for whatever reason to one of
those institutions in § 689], shall in all such cases
sentence such persons to the jurisdiction of the
[Department] DIVISION of Correction. All such persons shall
be committed to the custody of the Commissioner of
Correction and delivered to him for imprisonment.
Thereafter all such persons shall be held, confined in,
assigned to or transferred to such of the institutions and
facilities under the jurisdiction of the [Department]
DIVISION as the [Department] DIVISION from time to time may
order, including State Police barracks where such use is
convenient and practical.

Any person sentenced prior to June 1, 1967 to any one
of the institutions and facilities under the jurisdiction of
the [Department] DIVISION may, after such date, and
notwithstanding such sentence, be held, confined in,
assigned to or transferred to such of these institutions and
facilities as the [Department] DIVISION may from time to
time order.

(c) No sentence by any judge to the jurisdiction of
the [Department] DIVISION may be for less than three months,
any provisions of this article or any other law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

(d) Whenever in this article or any other law
reference is made to the sentencing or confinement of
prisoners to any of the institutions enumerated in § 689,
such reference shall [after June 1, 1967,] be construed to