HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 690 and 705

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

690.

(a)  The provisions of this section are applicable to any
judge of the circuit court for any county and any judge of the
District Court, exercising criminal jurisdiction, and all of such
persons are described herein as "judge."

(b)  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this article
or any other law to the contrary, judges, in the sentencing of
convicted persons for any offense for which the provisions of
this article or any other law requires the imprisonment to be
served at any one of those institutions enumerated in § 689 of
this article, shall in all such cases sentence such persons to
the jurisdiction of the Division of Correction. All such persons
shall be committed to the custody of the Commissioner of
Correction and delivered to him for imprisonment. Thereafter all
such persons shall be held, confined in, assigned to or
transferred to such of the institutions and facilities under the
jurisdiction of the Division as the Division from time to time
may order, including State Police barracks where such use is
convenient and practical.

Any person sentenced prior to June 1, 1967 to any one of the
institutions and facilities under the jurisdiction of the
Division may, after such date, and notwithstanding such sentence,
be held, confined in, assigned to or transferred to such of these
institutions and facilities as the Division may from time to time
order.

[(c) No sentence by any judge to the jurisdiction of the
Division may be for less than three months, any provisions of
this article or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.]

(C) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE OR ANY
OTHER LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A SENTENCE BY ANY JUDGE TO THE
JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION SHALL COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING
STIPULATIONS:

(1)  AS OF JANUARY 1, 1987, NO SENTENCE SHALL BE 6
MONTHS OR LESS;

(2)  AS OF JANUARY 1, 1988, NO SENTENCE SHALL BE FOR
LESS THAN 12 MONTHS;