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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="7-504" title_number="7" title_name="Parole, Release on Mandatory Supervision, and Executive Clemency" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Mandatory Supervision">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Technical violation” has the meaning stated in § 6–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Term of confinement” has the meaning stated in § 3–701 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, the commissioner presiding at an individual’s mandatory supervision revocation hearing may revoke diminution credits previously earned by the individual on the individual’s term of confinement in accordance with the following schedule:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>not more than 15 days for a first technical violation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>not more than 30 days for a second technical violation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>not more than 45 days for a third technical violation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>up to all remaining days for a fourth or subsequent technical violation or a violation that is not a technical violation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Nothing in this section affects the prohibition against the application of diminution credits under § 7–502 of this subtitle to the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a crime committed while on mandatory supervision.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>There is a rebuttable presumption that the limits on the revocation of diminution credits for a technical violation established in paragraph (1) of this subsection are applicable.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The presumption may be rebutted if a commissioner finds and states on the record, after consideration of the following factors, that adhering to the limits on the revocation of diminution credits established under paragraph (1) of this subsection would create a risk to public safety, a victim, or a witness:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the nature of the mandatory supervision violation;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the facts and circumstances of the crime for which the incarcerated individual was convicted; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the incarcerated individual’s history.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>On finding that adhering to the limits would create a risk to public safety, a victim, or a witness under subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the commissioner may:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>direct that a greater number of diminution credits be revoked than provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>commit the incarcerated individual to the Maryland Department of Health for treatment under § 8–507 of the Health – General Article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A finding under subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph or an action under subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph is subject to appeal under Title 12, Subtitle 3 or Title 12, Subtitle 4 of the Courts Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
