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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 770

medical, pharmaceutical or other professional publications
not subject to public sale or distribution, or to bona fide
news items or bona fide articles, published in newspapers,
magazines or books. Any person violating the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five
hundred dollars ($500.00) for each such violation.

698.

Whenever it appears to the Department that a prisoner
in any institution under its control is ill, and that the
facilities of the institution are inadequate to provide
treatment for such illness, the Department may temporarily
remove the prisoner to any place within the State where
adequate treatment may be obtained. The Department may
direct the temporary removal of such prisoner for a definite
period of time, or from time to time, to a place where
adequate treatment for the illness of the prisoner may be
obtained, with such guards and under such supervision and
safeguards as may be necessary to prevent the escape of the
prisoner from custody, and subject ot to such rules and
regulations with regard to guards, supervision, and terms of
temporary release as the Department may prescribe, provided
that any such order shall direct the return of such prisoner
to the jurisdiction of the Department as soon as the state
of his health will permit. Such order of removal shall be
the authority of the officer in charge of the penal
institution to remove the prisoner in accordance with its
terms, and the prisoner shall be regarded during the time of
such removal as remaining in custody of the Department for
the purpose of determining such time he shall be entitled to
diminution of the period of his confinement as provided in §
700(a) and 700(b) of this article. If any prisoner
temporarily removed in accordance with the provisions of
this section escapes, he shall be deemed guilty of the crime
of escape and subject to the penalties prescribed by § 139
of this article.

The expenses of the accommodation, maintenance, and
medical care of the prisoner whose temporary removal has
been authorized, in accordance with this section; shall be
paid by the prisoner or his relatives or friends, or from
any funds that are available, shall be a charge upon the
county, city, or town from which such inmate was committed,
and collectible by the officer in charge of such
institution, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by
[§ 44 of Article 59] TITLE 16 OF THE HEALTH GENERAL ARTICLE.

Article 31B - Patuxent Institution

3.

(a) There is a board of Patuxent Institution. It
consists of 17 persons appointed as follows: