Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Occurred: Ch. 234, Acts of 1976.

722A.

(a) The Division of Correction shall make arrangements for
the employment of any prisoners at any camp or camps in Queen
Anne's County and in any other county or counties in which
similar prisons or camps are now or may hereafter be established,
or in any county within a reasonable distance, to be determined
by the Division of Correction, from any such prisons or camps, in
any agricultural work during any part of the year, except,
however, any such prisoners being utilized or needed by the State
Highway Administration for emergency road maintenance work in any
county of this State. Persons who employ such prisoners from the
Division of Correction shall be required to pay the reasonable
value of such labor at the estimated prevailing wage scale for
such work in the community where the prisoners are so employed
and to give such security therefor as the Division may, in its
discretion, determine and require. Persons employing such prison
labor shall be authorized to sell the produce harvested by such
labor [notwithstanding the restriction imposed by § 681 of this
article]. Prisoners so employed in agricultural work shall be
under the control and supervision of the Division of Correction
to the extent as when employed on the construction and
maintenance of roads.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete cross-reference in Article 27, §
722A(a).

Occurred: The § 681 referred to in this section was
repealed by Ch. 661, Acts of 1981.

727.

(d) "Hearing [boards" mean] BOARD" MEANS:

(1)  A board which is authorized by the chief to hold
a hearing on a complaint against a law enforcement officer and
which consists of not less than three members, except as provided
in paragraph (2) of this subsection, all to be appointed by the
chief and selected from law enforcement officers within that
agency, or law enforcement officers of another agency with the
approval of the chief of the other agency, and who have had no
part in the investigation or interrogation of the law enforcement
officer. At least one member of the hearing board shall be of the
same rank as the law enforcement officer against whom the
complaint has been filed.

(2)  If a law enforcement officer is offered summary
punishment imposed pursuant to § 734A and refuses, the chief may
convene a one-member or more hearing board and the hearing board

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