Section 7-206 - Duties. - Maryland Statutes

§ 7-206. Duties.
 

The Commission shall: 

(1) evaluate information on the activities of parolees that the Division of Parole and Probation reports; 

(2) issue warrants or delegate to the Director of the Division of Parole and Probation the authority to issue warrants to retake parolees who are charged with violating a condition of parole; 

(3) review and make recommendations to the Governor: 

(i) concerning parole of an inmate under a sentence of life imprisonment; and 

(ii) if requested by the Governor, concerning a pardon, commutation of sentence, or other clemency; 

(4) establish and modify general policy governing the conduct of parolees; and 

(5) arrange for psychiatric or psychological examination of applicants for parole whenever the Commission believes that an examination will better enable it to decide on the advisability of parole and include the expense for the examination in its annual budget. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 41, § 4-504(b); 1999, ch. 54, § 2; 2006 Sp. Sess., ch. 4; 2010, chs. 176, 177.]