Section 16-201 - Policy of State. - Maryland Statutes

§ 16-201. Policy of State.
 

It is the policy of the State to: 

(1) provide for the realization of the constitutional guarantees of counsel in the representation of indigent individuals, including related necessary services and facilities, in criminal and juvenile proceedings in the State; 

(2) assure the effective assistance and continuity of counsel to indigent accused individuals taken into custody and indigent individuals in criminal and juvenile proceedings before the courts of the State; and 

(3) authorize the Office of the Public Defender to administer and assure enforcement of this title. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27A, § 1; 2008, ch. 15, § 2.]