1010                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 669

shall be the duty of the Board to consider the materials developed
by the Commissioner, and after consultation with appointing authori-
ties, the State Employees Standard Salary Board shall prepare and
recommend to the Governor a pay plan for all classes of positions
in both the classified and unclassified service to the end that all
positions in such services involving comparable duties, experience,
responsibilities and authority shall be paid comparable salaries in
accordance with the relative value of the services to be performed.
In establishing rates of pay, the State Employees Standard Salary
Board shall give consideration to experience, the prevailing rates of
pay for the services performed, and for comparable services in
public and private employment, living costs, maintenance or other
benefits received by employees, and the State's financial condition
and policies. Such pay plan shall take effect and shall have the
force and effect of law after approval by the Governor, at the time
the next State Budget takes effect, if funds for such pay plan are
provided therein. Amendments thereto may, from time to time,
be recommended by the Board and when approved by the Governor
and so included in the next State Budget shall have the force of law
in the same manner as if they had been originally incorporated in
the schedule. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary hereinbe-
fore, and solely in cases of acute emergency, amendments may be
made from time to time in the pay plan to take effect at any time
prior to the effective date of the next State Budget, if the amend-
ment is necessary in order to procure or to retain in the State service,
essential career administrative employees, performing executive
functions, or essential professional or technical employees, and upon
approval of the Board of Public Works, after recommendation by
the Board, shall have the force of law in the same manner as if they
had been originally incorporated in the schedule. Wherever the
Board shall find that there is an increase in the market value of
services performed by any class, it shall be the duty of the Commis-
sioner of Personnel to identify and present to the Board for con-
sideration at the same time all other related classes which are
affected by the same change in market value. Each employee in the
classified and in the unclassified service shall be paid at one of the
rates set forth in the pay plan for the grade or class of positions
in which he is employed. The pay plan shall be used by the Gov-
ernor in the preparation and submission of his budget. Provided,
however, that positions upon the faculties of the University of Mary-
land, State Teachers' Colleges and Morgan State College, Registrars
and Librarians on the staffs of the State Teachers Colleges, St.
Mary's Female Seminary, Morgan State College and University of
Maryland, but not the non-instructional personnel of such institu-
tions, shall be excluded from said pay plan and from the jurisdiction
of the State Employees Standard Salary Board.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.