Ch. 246                                    2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

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

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 246
(Senate Bill 67)

AN ACT concerning

Corrections - Local Correctional Facilities - Financial Assistance for

Counties

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that the State pay certain costs
relating to the construction of certain correctional facilities; authorizing a
county to apply for financial assistance for the construction of a new or enlarged
local correctional facility if the anticipated confinement of inmates serving
certain sentences would exceed certain capacity; repealing the altering a
requirement that the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services
annually review certain rates of growth relating to the number of inmates
sentenced to a certain period of confinement by requiring a certain comparison
to the number of inmates similarly sentenced before a certain date; and
generally relating to local correctional facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Correctional Services
Section 11-105
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:

Article - Correctional Services

11-105.

(a) If the Secretary determines that the anticipated confinement of inmates
[in a county's local correctional facility as a result of the sentencing stipulation
effective on January 1, 1987,] WHO ARE SERVING SENTENCES OF NOT LESS MORE
THAN 6 MONTHS BUT NOT EXCEEDING 12 MONTHS IN A COUNTY'S LOCAL
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY would exceed the capacity of the local correctional facility,
[the State shall pay 100% of the costs listed under subsection (c) of this section] A
COUNTY MAY APPLY TO THE SECRETARY FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION of a new or enlarged existing local correctional facility.

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