SUBTITLE 2. POWERS AND PERSONNEL.

3-201. DIVISION ESTABLISHED.

THERE IS A DIVISION OF CORRECTION IN THE DEPARTMENT.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is standard language derived without
substantive change from the first and second sentences of former Art. 41, §
4-105(a).

The former phrase "continued as the same Department of Correctional
Services hitherto existing" is deleted as obsolete. The Department of
Correctional Services was reorganized as the Division of Correction in
1970. See Ch. 401, Acts of 1970.

As to the third through fifth sentences of former Art. 41, § 4-105(a), see
General Revisor's Note to this subtitle.

Defined terms: "Department" § 1-101
"Division of Correction" § 1-101

3-202. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION — APPOINTMENT; QUALIFICATIONS; TERM;
OATH; COMPENSATION.

(A) APPOINTMENT.

WITH APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE
SENATE, THE SECRETARY SHALL APPOINT THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.

(B) QUALIFICATIONS.

THE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE AN INDIVIDUAL WITH MATURITY AND
JUDGMENT WHO HAS:

(1) BROAD KNOWLEDGE OF CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND SYSTEMS;

AND

(2) KNOWLEDGE OF CORRECTIONAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS,
CORRECTIONAL THEORIES, INSTITUTIONAL OPERATIONS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
INMATES.

(C) TERM.

THE COMMISSIONER SERVES AT THE PLEASURE OF THE SECRETARY.

(D) OATH.

BEFORE TAKING OFFICE, THE APPOINTEE SHALL TAKE THE OATH REQUIRED
BY ARTICLE I, § 9 OF THE MARYLAND CONSTITUTION.

(E) COMPENSATION.

THE COMMISSIONER IS ENTITLED TO THE COMPENSATION PROVIDED IN THE
STATE BUDGET.