HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  1349

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

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 118

(Senate Bill 244)

AN ACT concerning,

Maryland Parole Commission - Powers of Parole in Absentia

FOR the purpose of changing the authority of the Commission
to parole persons confined in a foreign jurisdiction.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 110(a)
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

Departments

110.

(a) The Commission has the exclusive power to:

(1)  Authorize the parole of individuals
sentenced under the laws of this State to any penal or
correctional institution, jail, or other place of
confinement or detention within the State;

(2)  Negotiate and sign predetermined parole
release agreements;

(3)  Hear cases for parole release in which:

(i) The Commissioner of Correction, after
reviewing the recommendation of the warden or
superintendent, objects to a parole; or

(ii) The inmate has been convicted of a
homicide; or