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Ch. 591
LAWS OF MARYLAND
detention facilities to reimburse the county or Baltimore
City for medical expenses and to provide the sheriff with
certain information regarding health insurance and
eligibility for benefits under the Maryland Medical
Assistance Program; providing for the construction of a
certain requirement for payment for certain medical care;
defining a certain term; making technical and stylistic
changes; and generally relating to the payment of medical
expenses of prisoners and inmates.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 698 and 699
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 87 - Sheriffs
Section 46
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume and 1987 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
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 b
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
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