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LAWS OF MARYLAND

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in the performance of work or lack of industry, application,
or progress in vocational or educational training, the
person herein confined shall not only forfeit all gained
time in the month in which such delinquency occurs, but
according to the aggravated nature of frequency of his
offense, the Department may deduct a portion or all of his
gained time for good conduct under subsections (b) and (f)
of this section, but the deduction allowed and earned under
subsections (c) and (d) hereof shall not be affected
thereby.

(f)  For each calendar month or fraction thereof
commencing on the first day of assignment, during which,
under such rules and regulations as shall be established by
the Commissioner of Correction, he is deemed to have
manifested satisfactory industry, application, and progress
in such special selected work projects, or other special
programs, designated by the Commissioner of Correction and
approved by the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, assigned to him, he may be
allowed an additional deduction of days, not exceeding five
(5) in number, for each month of the period of his
commitment or sentence.

(g)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b),
(c), and (d), whenever a prisoner is received by an

institution under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of
Correction from a county jail or the Baltimore City jail
where he had been held in pretrial detention, the period of
confinement for determining the credits earned by a prisoner
under subsections (b), (c), and (d) shall commence from the
first day of confinement under the jurisdiction of the
Commissioner.

(H) IF AN INMATE IN AN INSTITUTION UNDER THE DIVISION
OF CORRECTION OR THE PATUXENT INSTITUTION IS ADMITTED TO A
MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY UNDER § 10-614 OF THE HEALTH -
GENERAL ARTICLE, THE PERIOD OF CONFINEMENT IN THE FACILITY
SHALL BE APPLIED, UNDER THIS SECTION, TO DIMINISH THE TOTAL
CONFINEMENT.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Ch. ___, Acts of 1982, which enacted

the Health - General Article, also amended this
section to add subsection (h), which incorporates
in this section the substance of the fifth
sentence of former Article 59, § 16.

Article 62 - Marriages

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(A) REPORTS TO SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE.

AT THE INTERVALS THAT THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE SETS, EACH CLERK SHALL SEND TO THE SECRETARY: