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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="9-405" title_number="9" title_name="Crimes Against Public Administration" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Harboring, Escape, and Contraband">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who has been lawfully arrested may not knowingly depart from custody without the authorization of a law enforcement or judicial officer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not knowingly fail to obey a court order to report to a place of confinement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A person may not escape from:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>except as otherwise punishable under § 9–404(b) of this subtitle, a detention center for juveniles or a facility for juveniles listed in § 9–226(b) of the Human Services Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a place identified in a home detention order or agreement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a place identified in a juvenile community detention order; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a privately operated, hardware secure facility for juveniles committed to the Department of Juvenile Services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies to a person who is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>temporarily released from a place of confinement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>committed to a pretrial agency;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>committed to home detention by:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the court; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the Division of Correction under Title 3, Subtitle 4 of the Correctional Services Article;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>committed to a home detention program administered by a county;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>released to a private home detention monitoring agency as defined in § 20–101 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>ordered by a court to serve a term of custodial confinement as defined in § 6–219 of the Criminal Procedure Article as a condition of a suspended sentence or probation before or after judgment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not knowingly:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>violate any restriction on movement imposed under the terms of a temporary release, pretrial commitment, custodial confinement, or home detention order or agreement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>fail to return to a place of confinement under the terms of a temporary release, pretrial commitment, custodial confinement, or home detention order or agreement; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>remove, block, deactivate, or otherwise tamper with a monitoring device required to be worn or carried by the person to track the person’s location, including an ankle or wrist bracelet, global position satellite offender tracking technology, or comparable equipment or system.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of the misdemeanor of escape in the second degree and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
