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*hb0960*
HOUSE BILL 960
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HB 640/23 – JUD CF SB 1154
By: Frederick County Delegation
Introduced and read first time: February 2, 2024
Assigned to: Judiciary
Committee Report: Favorable
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 2, 2024
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
City of Frederick – Assignment of Offenders to Road Work – Repeal 2
FOR the purpose of repealing provisions relating to the assignment of offenders guilty of 3
violating municipal laws or ordinances to work on the public roads of Frederick 4
County or the City of Frederick; and generally relating to penalties for the violation 5
of municipal law or ordinance in the City of Frederick. 6
BY repealing 7
Article – Correctional Services 8
Section 9–518 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2017 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLA ND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Correctional Services 14
[9–518. 15
(a) This section applies only in the City of Frederick. 16
(b) A District Court judge who tries and commits a vagrant or other offender of a 17
municipal law or ordinance, whenever practicable, shall assign the offender to work on the 18
public roads of the county or City of Frederick. 19 2 HOUSE BILL 960
(c) The Sheriff or other officer into whose custody an offender is committed under 1
this section shall comply with the court’s order of assignment. 2
(d) (1) An offender ordered by the court to work on the public roads of the City 3
shall be guarded by the superintendent of streets or by any other individual deputized by 4
the Sheriff. 5
(2) An offender ordered by the court to work on the public roads of the 6
county shall be guarded by the road supervisor of the district in which the offender works. 7
(e) For the purpose of guarding offenders employed in accordance with a court 8
order issued under subsection (b) of this section, the Sheriff may deputize the 9
superintendent of streets, the district road supervisor, or any other individual to take 10
charge of the offenders.] 11
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 12
October 1, 2024. 13
Approved:
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Governor.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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President of the Senate.