Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 4-102(a) and 4-104(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1986 Replacement Volume and 1988 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

678.

(A) The Commissioner AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE PATUXENT
INSTITUTION shall make a report every year, on or before the last
day of October, to the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services and to the Governor, showing the expenses,
[profits, losses,] receipts, disbursements, condition and
progress of the said institutions, together with a statement of
the number of prisoners, their age, sex, color, place of
[nativity] BIRTH and conviction, offense, term of confinement,
escapes, pardons, and discharges, accompanied by such remarks and
suggestions as may appear necessary to the advancement of the
interests of said institutions.

(B) The Commissioner, at the time of making such annual
report to the Secretary and to the Governor, shall transmit
therewith a statement similar to that required to be made to the
Comptroller in § 677; and the statements and reports required to
be made in this section and § 677 of this article shall be duly
sworn to by the Commissioner of Correction[, and, subject].

(C) SUBJECT to § 2-1312 of the State Government Article,
the Governor shall communicate such statements and reports
DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTIONS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SECTION to the
General Assembly with such recommendations as he may think
expedient.

Article 31B - Patuxent Institution

1.

(a)  In this article, the following words have the meanings
indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(b)   ["Board" means the board of Patuxent Institution.

(c)] "Board of review" means the institutional board of
review, created by § 6.

[(d)] (C) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
Correction.

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