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

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

      1. (i) the county pays the prisoner a wage or stipulated sum; and
      2. (ii) the prisoner sustains permanent partial or permanent total disability or dies, as a result of an accidental personal injury; or
   2. (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.
2. (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.

Added by Acts 1991, c. 8, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1991, c. 21, § 5; Acts 1997, c. 388, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1999, c. 64, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1999; Acts 2005, c. 124, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2005.

Formerly Art. 101, § 35.