PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 412

Thereafter all such persons shall be held, confined in, assigned to or transferred to such
of the institutions and facilities under the jurisdiction of the Division as the Division from
time to time may order, including Department of State Police barracks where such use is
convenient and practical.

Any person sentenced prior to June 1, 1967 to any one of the institutions and
facilities under the jurisdiction of the Division may, after such date, and notwithstanding
such sentence, be held, confined in, assigned to or transferred to such of these institutions
and facilities as the Division may from time to time order.

719.

All male prisoners confined in [the Maryland Penitentiary, the Maryland House of
Correction] AN INSTITUTION OR FACILITY UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE
DIVISION OF CORRECTION, or any of the county, town or city jails, shall be liable to
labor upon the State, county and city roads and streets in accordance with the provisions
of §§ 719 to 726; provided that nothing in said sections shall apply to the Baltimore City
jail, or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or to the public highways of the City.

720.

The Governor of this State may from time to time require the [Board]
COMMISSIONER of Correction to certify to him the number of male prisoners confined in
the [ Maryland Penitentiary and in the Maryland House of Correction] INSTITUTIONS
AND FACILITIES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION, who
are physically able to work upon the public roads of the State, or of any county, city or
town thereof, and who are available for such work. If the governing body of any town or
city other than Baltimore City or the county commissioners of any county desire the
prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdictions to work upon the public
roads or streets, then they may, in like manner, certify to the Governor the number of
male prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdictions who are physically
able to work upon said public roads of the State, or of any county, city or town thereof,
and who are available for such work; provided, however, that in Frederick City, the
District Court judge who tried and committed a vagrant or other offender of a municipal
law or ordinance is hereby authorized and directed, whenever practicable, to make an
assignment of such person to employment on the county roads or on the streets of the
City, and the sheriff or other officer into whose custody said person has been committed
is hereby ordered to comply with any such order for assignment, and the person ordered
to work by the judge is to be guarded, if he works upon the streets of the City, by the
superintendent of streets or by any other person deputized by the sheriff, and if he works
upon the roads of the county, then he shall be guarded by the road supervisor of the
district in which the said person works, and the sheriff is hereby authorized to deputize
for this purpose any of the said officials or other persons to take charge of the said
persons while so employed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

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