ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 358

certain monitoring devices; clarifying various types of home detention or
custodial confinement programs subject to the crime of escape in the second
degree; modifying a defined term; establishing certain penalties; and generally
relating to escape in the first degree and escape in the second degree.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Criminal Law
Section 9-410(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Criminal Law

Section 9-401(f), 9-404, and 9-405, and 9-410(f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Criminal Law

9-401.

(f) (1) "Place of confinement" means:

(1) (I) a correctional facility;

(2) (II) [a place identified in a home detention order or agreement;

(3)] a facility of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; OR

[(4) a detention center for juveniles or a facility for juveniles listed in
Article 83C, § 2-117(a)(2) of the Code;

(5) a place identified in a juvenile community detention order; or

(6)] (3) (III) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN § 0 405 OF THIS SUBTITLE, any
other facility in which a person is confined under color of law.

(2) "PLACE OF CONFINEMENT' DOES NOT INCLUDE:

(I) A DETENTION CENTER FOR JUVENILES;

(II) A FACILITY FOR JUVENILES LISTED IN ARTICLE 83C. §
2-117(A)(2) OF THE CODE; OR

(III) A PLACE IDENTIFIED IN A JUVENILE COMMUNITY DETENTION
ORDER.

9-404.

(a) A person may not knowingly escape from a place of confinement.

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