# Correctional Services (GCS)

## Title 8. State and Local Correctional System -- Generally

### Subtitle 7. Community Service Programs

#### Section 8-703

Except as otherwise provided, a court may order a juvenile who is charged with the commission of a delinquent act or a criminal defendant who has not been convicted of a crime of violence to perform community service and assign the juvenile or defendant to a particular work project:

(1) instead of payment of any fines and court costs imposed; or

(2) as a condition of:

  (i) probation, whether granted under Sec. 6-220 or Sec. 6-225 of the Criminal Procedure Article or otherwise;

  (ii) a suspended sentence;

  (iii) a case being placed on a stet docket; or

  (iv) a juvenile being subject to a diversionary program.

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