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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-221" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Covered Employees and Employers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A prisoner is a covered employee while the prisoner is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>working for a board of county commissioners, a county council, or a county roads board if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the county pays the prisoner a wage or stipulated sum; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the prisoner sustains permanent partial or permanent total disability or dies, as a result of an accidental personal injury; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>engaged in work while under the supervision of Maryland Correctional Enterprises in the Federal Prison Industry Enhancement Program as provided in § 10-308(d) of the Correctional Services Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In Allegany, Anne Arundel, Charles, Montgomery, Washington, and Wicomico counties, payment of a stipend or other money into an account that a correctional institution administers for a prisoner does not constitute payment of a wage or stipulated sum under subsection (a)(1)(i) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
