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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="5-202" title_number="5" title_name="Division of Pretrial Detention and Services" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Division of Pretrial Detention and Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>With the approval of the Governor, the Secretary shall appoint a Commissioner of Pretrial Detention and Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner serves at the pleasure of the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has the same authority over the Division as this Code vests in the Commissioner of Correction over the Division of Correction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall keep safely any incarcerated individual committed or transferred to the custody of the Commissioner until the incarcerated individual is discharged in accordance with law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>is in charge of the Division, subject to the authority of the Secretary;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>is the appointing authority for all employees of the Division;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>shall establish a home detention program under terms and conditions that the Secretary provides;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>may enter agreements with the Commissioner of Correction and governmental units for the housing of any incarcerated individual held in the custody of the Division;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>may enter agreements for the housing of any incarcerated individual committed to federal or local governmental units in a facility within the Division; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>may enter other agreements necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner shall establish by regulation the terms and conditions of the home detention program required under subsection (c)(5) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The authority of a court to determine the conditions of pretrial release or to find that a defendant awaiting trial may not be placed on a home detention program may not be limited or superseded by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a regulation of the Division or Department; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Division or the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
