2019 Maryland Code
Labor and Employment
Title 9 - Workers' Compensation
Subtitle 2 - Covered Employees and Employers
§ 9-221. Prisoner

    (a)    A prisoner is a covered employee while the prisoner is:

        (1)    working for a board of county commissioners, a county council, or a county roads board if:

            (i)    the county pays the prisoner a wage or stipulated sum; and

            (ii)    the prisoner sustains permanent partial or permanent total disability or dies, as a result of an accidental personal injury; or

        (2)    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.

    (b)    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.

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