HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  1107

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Section 124(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

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124.

(b) The parole and probation agents of the Division
shall provide the judge of the court with presentence
reports or other investigations in all cases when requested
by any judge. The presentence reports are confidential and
not available for public inspection except upon court order.
However, presentence reports shall be made available, upon
request, to the defendant's attorney, the State's Attorney,
a correctional institution, a parole or probation, OR
PRETRIAL RELEASE official of this State, any other state,
the United States, or the District of Columbia, and a
public or private mental health facility in any of those
jurisdictions, if the individual who is the subject of the
report has been committed or is being evaluated for
commitment to the facility for treatment as a condition of
probation. The agents shall also perform any other
probationary services the judges may from time to time
request.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved April 13, 1982.

CHAPTER 34

(Senate Bill 317)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - Failure to Appear in Response to
Citations - Bench Warrant

FOR the purpose of authorizing the issuance of a bench
warrant when a person fails to appear in court in
response to a citation in certain cases; establishing
that failure to appear constitutes a misdemeanor in