WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 163

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 645K and 645M

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 1987 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 645CC

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume)

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

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments

4-105.

(b) The Division of Parole and Probation is established and
continued as the same Department of Parole and Probation hitherto
existing. The Division of Parole and Probation shall be part of
the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. The
Division of Parole and Probation shall have the powers, duties,
responsibilities and functions provided in the laws of this State
for the Department of Parole and Probation. All references in
this Code, in any other laws of this State, or in ordinances,
resolutions, rules, regulations, legal actions, directives, or
documents to the Department of Parole and Probation shall be
deemed to mean the Division of Parole and Probation. From and
after July 1, 1970, all rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the
Department of Parole and Probation shall be transferred to and be
exercised by the Division of Parole and Probation subject to the
authority of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services as set forth in §§ 4-102, 4-103, and 4-104 of this
article or elsewhere in this Code.

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

645K.

Whenever a person shall be convicted of a crime and
sentenced to imprisonment in any county, town or city jail by any
court in the counties to which this subtitle applies, the judge
imposing sentence may prescribe that insofar as possible the
person may continue his regular employment or obtain new
employment while serving the term of his sentence, and the judge
shall designate either the sheriff or the [Department] DIVISION

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