Ch. 165

LAWS OF MARYLAND

is likely to respond favorably to the programs and services
provided at Patuxent Institution, [and] (4) (IV) can be better
rehabilitated through those programs and services than by other
incarceration , . AND (5) IS NOT (2) "ELIGIBLE PERSON" DOES
NOT INCLUDE A PERSON WHO (I) IS SERVING 2 OR MORE SENTENCES OF
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 27, § 412
OF THE CODE AND (6) IS NOT , OR (II) IS SERVING 1 OR MORE
SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE WHEN A COURT OR JURY HAS
FOUND, BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, THAT ONE OR MORE AGGREVATING
AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES EXISTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE
27, § 413 OF THE CODE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved April 29, 1987.

CHAPTER 165

(Senate Bill 428)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes - Contracts for Compensation

FOR the purpose of requiring that certain contracts relating to
the reenactment of certain crimes be submitted to the
Attorney General; requiring that payments under those
contracts be submitted to the Attorney General; requiring
the Attorney General to notify a victim of a certain crime
that a certain contract has been submitted to the Attorney
General; providing for the establishment of an escrow
account by the Attorney General and for the payment of funds
from that account; providing for periods of limitations;
requiring' the Attorney General to publish a certain legal
notice after receiving funds under this section; prohibiting
the concealment of a certain contract and certain payments
under the contract; providing that certain actions by a
defendant are void as against public policy; establishing
the Maryland Victims of Crime Fund and providing a certain
method of funding the Fund; granting certain authority to
the Attorney General; providing for a certain civil penalty;
providing certain procedures; providing for the construction
of this Act; defining certain terms; and generally relating
to moneys owing to criminal defendants pursuant to contracts
relating to the reenactment of crimes.

BY adding to

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