Section 8-703 - Authority of court. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-703. Authority of court.
 

Except as otherwise provided, a court may order a juvenile who is charged with the commission of a delinquent act or a criminal defendant who has not been convicted of a crime of violence to perform community service and assign the juvenile or defendant to a particular work project: 

(1) instead of payment of any fines and court costs imposed; or 

(2) as a condition of: 

(i) probation, whether granted under § 6-220 or § 6-225 of the Criminal Procedure Article or otherwise; 

(ii) a suspended sentence; 

(iii) a case being placed on a stet docket; or 

(iv) a juvenile being subject to a diversionary program. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 726A(b); 1999, ch. 54, § 2; 2001, ch. 35.]