Defined terms: "Correctional facility" § 1-101
"County" § 1-101
"Division of Correction" § 1-101
"Inmate" § 1-101
"Managing official" § 1-101

9-603. METHADONE DETOXIFICATION PROGRAM.

(A) IN GENERAL.

AN INMATE IN A STATE OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL BE PLACED
ON A PROPERLY SUPERVISED PROGRAM OF METHADONE DETOXIFICATION IF:

(1) A PHYSICIAN DETERMINES THAT THE INMATE IS AN ADDICT;

(2) THE TREATMENT IS PRESCRIBED BY A PHYSICIAN; AND
(3) THE INMATE CONSENTS IN WRITING TO THE TREATMENT.

(B) PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS IN DETERMINING DRUG ADDICTION AND
TREATMENT.

THE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS USED TO DETERMINE DRUG ADDICTION
AND TREATMENT OF ADDICTED INMATES ARE SUBJECT TO THE GUIDELINES AND
REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ADMINISTRATION IN
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE.

(C) FUNDING.

THE STATE SHALL FUND THE PROGRAM OF METHADONE DETOXIFICATION.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived without substantive
change from former Art. 27, § 700F,

In subsection (b) of this section, the reference to "the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene" is added for clarity.

Also in subsection (b) of this section, the reference to guidelines and
regulations that are "adopted" is substituted for the former reference to
those "set forth" for consistency with terminology throughout this article.
See General Revisor's Note to this article.

In subsection (c) of this section, the reference to the program "of
methadone detoxification" is added to state expressly that which was only
implied in the former reference to "program".

Defined terms: "Inmate" § 1-101

"Local correctional facility" § 1-101
"State correctional facility" § 1-101

9-604. PAYMENT OF BURIAL AND FUNERAL EXPENSES OF INDIGENT INMATES.
(A) IN GENERAL.