HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                         2289

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 342

(Senate Bill 405)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore County - Detention Center Financial Liability -

Escapees

FOR the purpose of imposing altering a provision of law to impose
financial liability on any escapee from the Baltimore County
Detention Center certain places of confinement for expenses
incurred in the escapee's return; permitting the Sheriff
certain persons to promulgate certain regulations; requiring
the Sheriff certain persons to notify the escapee of
expenses; and permitting a hearing where the expenses are
challenged.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 139

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

139.

(a) (1) If any individual who is legally detained in the
State penitentiary or a jail, house of correction, reformatory,
station house, or other place of confinement in this State or who
is committed to the Drug Abuse Administration for examination or
inpatient treatment escapes, the individual is guilty of a felony
and on conviction by the circuit court for the county in which
the escape takes place, is subject to confinement in the State
penitentiary or a jail or house of correction for an additional
period not exceeding 10 years. The sentence imposed under this
subsection shall be consecutive to any sentence which was being
served at the time of the escape, or any sentence which had been
imposed but was not yet being served at the time of sentencing on