2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

County or any District Court for Garrett County having criminal
jurisdiction, said Court or District Court shall also in said sentence direct
that any prisoner over sixteen (16) years of age who may be so sentenced
shall be subject to perform labor for and during the period, of his
imprisonment on the public roads, buildings and grounds of Garrett County
or on the public streets of any incorporated town in said county, provided
that during the employment of such prisoner on the public streets of any
incorporated town, the town authorities of such town so employing such
prisoner shall be charged with the expense which may attend such
employment, and provided further that this section shall not apply to
female prisoners.

Supervision required; type of labor performed. The labor provided for in
Subsection A of this section shall be performed, if within the corporate
limits of any incorporated town, under the supervision and direction of the
Town Commissioners and Bailiff of such town, and if on the public roads of
Garrett County, then under the supervision and direction of the County
Commissioners or the Road Supervisor of any district who may be
authorized by the County Commissioners to work the same. The Sheriff of
Garrett County, upon the demand of any bailiff, supervisor or other persons
duly authorized to make such demand, is hereby authorized and required to
deliver such prisoner to the party so making the demand and entitled to
receive the same whenever and at such times as he may be so legally
required. The labor to be performed by such prisoner may include every
service necessary for the purpose of draining, grading, paving or repairing
such public streets or other highways of Garrett County, within or without
the limits of any incorporated town therein.

Responsibilities of supervising officer; penalty for refusal to work;
exception. The officer or other person having such prisoner in charge shall.
have power and authority to compel such labor and shall be responsible for
the safekeeping and return to prison of such prisoner to the custody of the
Sheriff at the end of each day's labor, which day's labor shall be within the
discretion of the officer or other person so supervising at the time, but shall
not exceed ten (10) hours' work or labor for any day he may be so employed.
Any prisoner so sentenced who shall refuse to perform the labor required of
him shall incur the penalty of two (2) days' additional imprisonment for
every day he may so refuse, and this provision shall be included in the
sentence of the Court or District Court by whom the same may be rendered,
but no prisoner shall be compelled to perform such labor whose health is not
in a condition to allow the same, and the certificate of the physician to the
jail or other physician in said county shall be sufficient to excuse such labor.

Penalty for supervising officer permitting an escape. If any officer or other
person having such prisoner in charge for the performance of such work or
labor, through connivery or by his willful neglect, permits the escape of any
such prisoner, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon indictment
and conviction of such offense in the Circuit Court for Garrett County, shall
be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.)

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