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(2) Except as otherwise provided by law, and subject to § 2-103.4 of this
article, each deputy, officer, and employee of the Administration:

(i) Is in the State Personnel Management System; and

(ii) Is entitled to the salary provided in the pay plan established
under Title 8, Subtitle 1 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article.

(e) [(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the] THE
Administration may delegate to the Office of Administrative Hearings the power and
authority under the Maryland Vehicle Law to conduct hearings under this article and
render [proposed findings of fact and proposed conclusions of law.

(2) The Administration may delegate to the Office of Administrative
Hearings the power and authority under the Maryland Vehicle Law to render] final
decisions in hearings conducted under [§§ 13-705.1, 21-1005, and 22-218, and Title
16, Subtitles 1 through 4 of] this article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved April 13, 2004.

CHAPTER 15
(Senate Bill 39)

AN ACT concerning

Public Safety and Correctional Services - Inmates Confined to State
Correctional Facilities - Release Dates

FOR the purpose of requiring a modification of a release date from confinement in a
State correctional facility when the scheduled release date falls on a certain day;
requiring the Commissioner of Correction to adopt certain regulations
establishing a release plan for inmates upon release from a facility; and
generally relating to inmate release dates.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Correctional Services
Section 9-609

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

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