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($10,000.00) per annum. Provided that no Judge eligible hereunder
for a pension shall receive such pension as long as he is engaged
in the practice of law, but in the event he should thereafter relinquish
such practice and notify the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County of such fact, then, from and after the date of such notifica-
tion, the Judge shall be entitled to all the benefits provided by this
section.

(B) THE WIDOW OF EVERY JUDGE WHO DIES IN ACTIVE
SERVICE SHALL BE PAID TWO-THIRDS OF THE PENSION TO
WHICH SUCH JUDGE WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTITLED ON
THE DATE OF HIS DEATH IF HE HAD BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR
RETIREMENT AND HAD RETIRED ON SAID DATE IRRE-
SPECTIVE OF WHETHER HE SHALL HAVE ATTAINED THE
AGE OF SIXTY-FIVE (65) AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. THE
WIDOW OF EVERY SUCH JUDGE WHO DIES AFTER RETIR-
ING SHALL BE PAID TWO-THIRDS OF THE PENSION WHICH
SUCH JUDGE WAS RECEIVING AT THE DATE OF HIS DEATH.
IN ORDER TO BE ENTITLED TO THE PENSION PROVIDED
BY THIS SECTION, A WIDOW OF A JUDGE WHO DIES DUR-
ING ACTIVE SERVICE SHALL HAVE BEEN MARRIED TO HIM
FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN THREE YEARS BEFORE
HIS RETIREMENT. A WIDOW WHO IS ENTITLED TO A PEN-
SION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
BE PAID FOR THE PERIOD OF HER LIFE UNLESS SHE RE-
MARRIES, IN WHICH EVENT THE PENSION IS TO CEASE
AND TERMINATE.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 248
(House Bill 492)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 28-1 of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Election Code" subtitle
"Uniform Act for Voting by Nonresidents in Presidential Elec-
tions," to affect the residency requirements for voting for presi-
dential and vice-presidential electors.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 28-1 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Election
Code" subtitle "Uniform Act of Voting by Nonresidents in Presiden-
tial Elections," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

28-1.

Each citizen of the United States who has been a resident of this
State for less than [six] twelve months on the day before the day of