Ch. 11

LAWS OF MARYLAND

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This corrects stylistic errors in
cross-references in Article 27, § 692A.

The stylistic errors occurred in Ch. 306 of the Acts
of 1984.

The stylistic errors were noted by the Computer
Division of the Department of Legislative Reference.

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 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 purposes of determining the time when the
prisoner shall be released from the sentence, and in 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
FOR THE HOSPITAL EXPENSE OF PRISONERS, OR, IF NOT OTHERWISE
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 Title 16 of the Health - General Article.

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This adds clarifying language inadvertently
omitted in Article 27, § 698.

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