HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 818

(House Bill 1748)

AN ACT concerning

Carroll County - Work Release Program

FOR the purpose of authorizing a judge in Carroll County to order
certain individuals to participate in a work release program
under certain circumstances; authorizing the Carroll County
Sheriff's Department to establish a work release program;
authorizing an individual who has been sentenced to the
Carroll County Detention Center to participate in a work
release program under certain circumstances; permitting an
inmate at the Carroll County Detention Center who has been
ordered to attend rehabilitative activities to leave the
Detention Center under certain circumstances; requiring an
inmate at the Carroll County Detention Center who
participates in a work release program to reimburse the
Carroll County Sheriff's Department for certain expenses;
providing that inmates in a work release program who violate
certain conditions may be removed from the program and may
have any earned diminution of sentence canceled; and
generally relating to work release programs in Carroll
County.

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 645BB

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1985 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

645BB.

(A) IN CARROLL COUNTY WHENEVER AN INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN
SENTENCED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE SHERIFF AND HAS NO OTHER CHARGES
PENDING IN ANY CITY, COUNTY, OR STATE, A CIRCUIT COURT OR
DISTRICT COURT IN CARROLL COUNTY MAY AT THE TIME OF SENTENCING OR
AT ANY TIME DURING THE INDIVIDUAL'S INCARCERATION SENTENCE THE
INDIVIDUAL TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORK RELEASE PROGRAM. AN
INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORK
RELEASE PROGRAM MAY CONTINUE THEIR REGULAR EMPLOYMENT, OR OBTAIN
NEW EMPLOYMENT.

(B) (1) THE CARROLL COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT MAY
ESTABLISH A WORK RELEASE PROGRAM.