# Correctional Services (GCS)

## Title 5. Division of Pretrial Detention and Services

### Subtitle 4. Baltimore City -- Facilities

#### Section 5-406

(a) On the recommendation of a health care provider, the facility administrator of the Youth Detention Center and the facility administrator's designees may authorize medical treatment of a juvenile incarcerated individual when in the judgment of the facility administrator or a designee the treatment is required and a parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis of the juvenile is not available on a timely basis to give the authorization.

(b) The facility administrator or the facility administrator's designees may not be held liable for authorizing medical treatment under this section in good faith.

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Md. Code Ann., Corr. Servs. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)