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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *hb0640* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 640 |
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| 8 | 8 | | L3, E5 3lr1959 |
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| 9 | 9 | | CF 3lr2810 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegates Simpson, Fair, and Kerr |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 3, 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Judiciary |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | City of Frederick – Assignment of Offenders to Road Work – Repeal 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of repealing provisions relating to the assignment of offenders guilty of 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | violating municipal laws or ordinances to work on the public roads of Frederick 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | County or the City of Frederick; and generally relating to penalties for the violation 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | of municipal law or ordinance in the City of Frederick. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | BY repealing 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Article – Correctional Services 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 9–518 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2017 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) 11 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Article – Correctional Services 14 |
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| 36 | 36 | | [9–518. 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (a) This section applies only in the City of Frederick. 16 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (b) A District Court judge who tries and commits a vagrant or other offender of a 17 |
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| 41 | 41 | | municipal law or ordinance, whenever practicable, shall assign the offender to work on the 18 |
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| 42 | 42 | | public roads of the county or City of Frederick. 19 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (c) The Sheriff or other officer into whose custody an offender is committed under 20 |
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| 45 | 45 | | this section shall comply with the court’s order of assignment. 21 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 2 HOUSE BILL 640 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (d) (1) An offender ordered by the court to work on the public roads of the City 1 |
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| 50 | 50 | | shall be guarded by the superintendent of streets or by any other individual deputized by 2 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the Sheriff. 3 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (2) An offender ordered by the court to work on the public roads of the 4 |
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| 54 | 54 | | county shall be guarded by the road supervisor of the district in which the offender works. 5 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (e) For the purpose of guarding offenders employed in accordance with a court 6 |
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| 57 | 57 | | order issued under subsection (b) of this section, the Sheriff may deputize the 7 |
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| 58 | 58 | | superintendent of streets, the district road supervisor, or any other individual to take 8 |
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| 59 | 59 | | charge of the offenders.] 9 |
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| 61 | 61 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FUR THER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 10 |
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| 62 | 62 | | October 1, 2023. 11 |
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