WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        Ch. 6

terminology in § 4-608 and erroneous cross-reference
in § 4-607.

Occurred: Sections placed in wrong subtitle by Ch.
457, Acts of 1968; the terminology became obsolete in
Ch. 540, Acts of 1976; and the cross-reference will
become erroneous upon the passage of the Annual
Corrective Bill of 1988.

4-606.

The members of the [Board] COMMISSION and all of the duly
qualified parole agents of the Division shall have and are hereby
given visitorial powers over all institutions in which any person
may be confined upon a criminal charge, whether such institution
be a State, county, or city institution; and the said members of
[said Board] THE COMMISSION shall have power to summon any
witness including any prisoner confined in any State, county, or
city institution, before them, and to administer oaths or
affirmations to such witness wherever, in the judgment of the
said members of [said Board] THE COMMISSION, it may be necessary
for the effectual discharge of their duties under this subtitle.
Any person failing to appear before said members of [said Board]
THE COMMISSION at the time and place specified, in answer to said
summons, personally served upon said witness, or refusing to
testify, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, which fine
shall revert to the general fund of the State; false swearing on
the part of any witness testifying before said members of [said
Board] THE COMMISSION on a matter material to inquiry shall be
deemed perjury.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete terminology in Article 41, § 4-606.

Occurred: Ch. 540, Acts of 1976.

4-610.

The State's attorneys in the several counties and the City
of Baltimore shall make and transmit to the Division [and the
Department] OF PAROLE AND PROBATION AND THE DIVISION of
Correction a resume of the facts and evidence adduced in each
case tried in the circuit courts of the counties of the State
wherein a verdict of guilty was found, where the Division of
Parole and Probation did not prepare a presentence investigation
report, and where a sentence of 18 months or more has been
imposed, so that each agency may have on file an abstract of each
case in which application for parole may be made under provisions
of this article.                                                                                                 

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

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