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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="3-811" title_number="3" title_name="Division of Correction" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Leave">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee may grant family leave to allow an incarcerated individual to visit the incarcerated individual’s family for a reasonable time if the incarcerated individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is confined in a correctional facility in the Division;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is classified to be in prerelease status; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>is recommended by the correctional facility’s case management team and managing official.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>When granting family leave to an incarcerated individual, the Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>issue a written authorization to the incarcerated individual that specifies the conditions of the family leave; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>file a copy of the authorization in the Commissioner’s office.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>While on family leave, an incarcerated individual at all times shall possess a copy of the authorization for family leave.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The failure of an incarcerated individual to comply with the terms of the authorization for family leave is a violation of § 9–404 of the Criminal Law Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commissioner may adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
