Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

703A.

All State penal institutions and all institutions, of a
penal or reformatory nature, whose primary object is
reformational and not educational, receiving State aid are hereby
forbidden to raise for sale, except to other State institutions
or institutions receiving State aid, or TO canneries, any
perishable vegetable produce. Any person connected with any
State penal institution or other institutions as above specified
receiving State aid violating any of the provisions of this
section, or taking part in any such violation, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not
less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00), and if an employee of a State institution,
shall be subject to removal.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted preposition in Article 27, § 703A.

Occurred: Ch. 343, Acts of 1969.

705.

(a) (1) [A local detention center] A "LOCAL DETENTION
CENTER" means any jail, work release, or prerelease center, or
any other correctional facility operated by one or more counties
for the purpose of adult detention and confinement.

(c)  The chief administrator of a local detention [facility]
CENTER shall be responsible for the safekeeping and care of all
prisoners and other persons detained or sentenced to the local
detention [facility] CENTER from the time they are lawfully
detained in or committed thereto, until discharged, released or
withdrawn pursuant to court order or other lawful authority.
Nothing herein shall affect the powers and duties of the sheriff
of any county in respect to the safekeeping and custody of all
prisoners or persons, except when the prisoners or persons are
lawfully assigned to a local detention [facility] CENTER operated
by more than 1 county.

(d)  Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section:

(2) Where any county or counties has its plan for
construction approved by the [Secretary] SECRETARY, the State
shall pay the same share as that provided for jail construction
or rehabilitation.

(e)  (1) On a determination by the Secretary that the
anticipated confinement of prisoners in a county's local
detention center as a result of sentences imposed under [§
690(c)(2) and (3)] § 690(C)(1)(II) AND (III) of this article
would cause the capacity of that detention center to be exceeded,

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