1. A. The managing official of a correctional facility shall have a written policy and procedure:

   1. (1) Governing the availability, control, storage, and use of flammable, toxic, and caustic materials which includes provisions for:

      1. (a) Secure storage outside inmate living and activity areas;
      2. (b) Quarterly inspection and inventory to determine condition and accountability;
      3. (c) Specification of persons authorized access and use; and
      4. (d) A record of issue and disposal;
   2. (2) Requiring weekly sanitation inspections of internal and external facility areas;

   3. (3) Governing facility housekeeping, which includes provisions for:

      1. (a) Specific description of staff and inmate duties and responsibilities;
      2. (b) Quarterly vermin and pest control services;
      3. (c) Weekly trash removal;
      4. (d) A secure paper or plastic receptacle for daily disposal of soiled menstrual hygiene products; and
      5. (e) Weekly removal of paper or plastic receptacles containing soiled menstrual hygiene products;

   4. (4) Governing the availability of personal hygiene articles, which includes provisions for:

      1. (a) The issue of no cost personal hygiene articles to an inmate at the time of admission to a facility;
      2. (b) The issue of no cost personal hygiene articles to an indigent inmate;
      3. (c) The issue of no cost menstrual hygiene products to a female inmate at the time of admission to a facility, on a routine basis, and upon request;
      4. (d) Routine commissary access for the purchase of personal hygiene articles; and
      5. (e) A record of inventory for menstrual hygiene products;
   5. (5) Providing for a record of the issue and return of clothing to an inmate unless personal clothing is allowed;
   6. (6) Providing for a record of the issue and return to an inmate of mattresses, pillows, sheets, pillow cases, towels, wash cloths, and blankets;
   7. (7) Providing for weekly laundering and accountability of issued and personal clothing and linens; and

   8. (8) Providing for the management of inmate personal property, which includes provisions for:

      1. (a) Designation of property limitations;
      2. (b) A listing of all property confiscated;
      3. (c) The signature of inmate and personnel upon confiscation and return;
      4. (d) A semiannual inventory of property retained by the facility;
      5. (e) Replacement of damaged or lost items;
      6. (f) Recorded disposition of property abandoned by an inmate; and
      7. (g) Recorded modifications to an established listing.
2. B. The managing official shall ensure that the facility provides sufficient toilet, shower, and bathing accommodations to maintain basic health and personal hygiene.

Authority: Correctional Services Article, §§4-214 and 9-616 and Title 8, Subtitle 1, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: April 26, 1982 (9:8 Md. R. 823)

Regulation .02A—E, H amended effective February 27, 1984 (11:4 Md. R. 315); July 29, 1985 (12:15 Md. R. 1521)

Regulation .02 amended effective February 10, 1986 (13:3 Md. R. 272)

Regulations .01 and .02 repealed and new Regulations .01—.09 adopted effective November 25, 1991 (18:23 Md. R. 2488)

Regulation .01 repealed effective December 4, 1995 (22:24 Md. R. 1900)

Regulation .02E, J amended effective April 1, 2017 (43:26 Md. R. 1447)

Regulation .03C amended effective April 1, 2017 (43:26 Md. R. 1447)

Regulation .03Q amended effective September 29, 2003 (30:19 Md. R. 1334)

Regulation .05 repealed and new Regulation .05 adopted effective November 18, 2019 (46:23 Md. R. 1066)

Regulation .06B amended effective April 1, 2017 (43:26 Md. R. 1447)

Regulation .08A amended effective October 29, 2001 (28:21 Md. R. 1857)

Regulation .09 amended effective April 1, 2017 (43:26 Md. R. 1447)