(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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