SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1339

436.

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City shall pay to the
Chief Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City a salary of
[$19,500.00] Twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000.00) per annum
payable monthly, and to each of the Associate Judges of the People's
Court of Baltimore City, a salary of [$18,500.00] Twenty-one thou-
sand dollars ($21,000.00) per annum, payable monthly. Each of said
Judges shall devote to his duties a regular session on every day except
Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays and such other sessions at
such times as the Chief Judge deems necessary or advisable, during
such eleven months in each year as the Chief Judge shall assign. No
Judge of the People's Court shall engage in the practice of law while
holding the position of Judge. The Chief Judge shall make such
assignments in such manner as to provide regular sessions for the
transaction of business, and such other sessions as he shall prescribe,
throughout the entire year. The Chief Judge of said Court may
direct that the Chief Constable's Office shall be closed on Saturdays,
so that the Clerk's Office may be closed on Saturdays. All such
sessions shall be held at such place as the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City shall provide.

(a) Every elected Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City
shall be paid, after the termination of his active service, if he is then

at least sixty years of age or when he becomes sixty years of age, a

pension or salary calculated at the rate of [Six Hundred Dollars
(600.00)] Seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per annum for each
year or any part thereof of active service by appointment and election

       The widow of every elected Judge who dies in active service shall

be paid one-half of the pension or salary the Judge would have re-

ceived if his service had been terminated by retirement and for this
purpose only, the age of the Judge is not to be considered; the widow
of any Judge eligible for retirement pension who dies after retiring
shall be paid one-half of the pension or salary to which her husband

was entitled at the time of his death. In determining the amount

which any widow is entitled to be paid after [January 1, 1966] July
1, 1968, the pension of the deceased Judge shall be calculated at the
rates prescribed by Section 436A(a) of Article 4 of the Public Local

436A.

436B.

as a Judge of said People's Court, up to and including twenty years

of such active service, so that the maximum pension or salary for

such service payable hereunder to any one person shall not exceed

the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00)] Fourteen

thousand dollars ($14,000.00) per annum. This section shall apply

to any elected Judge already retired from active service. Any for-

mer Judge who accepts any salaried public office or position, munic-

ipal, county, state or federal, shall not be paid any such pension or

salary so long as he remains in any such office or position. No pen-
sion shall be payable hereunder to any retired Judge of the People's
Court of Baltimore City who is receiving another pension under the
Employees' Retirement System of the City of Baltimore. The Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore are hereby expressly authorized to levy

for any pay such pensions or salaries to former Judges of said

People's Court of Baltimore City.