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LAWS OF MARYLAND

be served in the same manner as provided for service of process
in civil suits mentioned in [Rule 106 of] the Maryland Rules.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete reference in Article 27, § 624.

Occurred: Revision of the Maryland Rules, effective
July 1, 1984.

639A.

(2) Time Required; Conditions for Release; Failure to
Return; Violations. The Department of Parole and Probation shall
determine the time actually necessary for a prisoner to go to and
from his place of employment and to perform the duties required
of him as an employee. Prior to any release pursuant to this
section, a prisoner shall sign an agreement to return to the
county jail at the time so determined by the Department (to be
specified by hour in the agreement) or immediately after his work
is over, whichever is earlier, and in any event to return
directly to the jail following the termination of his daily
employment; to enter no vehicle or building except in the
ordinary course of his employment; to surrender his total
earnings as provided in [subsection (a)(3)] SUBSECTION (3) OF
THIS SECTION; to have no alcoholic beverages in his possession at
any time; to bring no object into the jail without the express
permission of the Sheriff or a deputy sheriff; and to observe
such other conditions as may be deemed proper and designated in
the agreement by the District Court judge. A prisoner released
from actual confinement who wilfully fails to return to the
county jail at the time specified in such agreement shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to
the penalties provided for escape in Article 27, § 139, of this
Code. A prisoner released from actual confinement who violates
any other condition of such agreement shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to an
additional term of imprisonment in the county jail of not more
than six months.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Erroneous internal reference in Article 27, §
639A(2).

Occurred: Ch. 11, Acts of 1987.

643.

In all cases where the law prescribing a punishment for
crime fixes a maximum and a minimum penalty therefor, the several
judges of the circuit courts of the counties" arid of the District
Court of Maryland may, in lieu of the minimum penalty so

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