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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="8-703" title_number="8" title_name="State and Local Correctional System -- Generally" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Community Service Programs">
  <text>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:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>instead of payment of any fines and court costs imposed; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>as a condition of:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>probation, whether granted under § 6-220 or § 6-225 of the Criminal Procedure Article or otherwise;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>a suspended sentence;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>a case being placed on a stet docket; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>a juvenile being subject to a diversionary program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
