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53.

(1)

(a) Any member [in service] may retire upon written application to the board
of trustees setting forth at what time [, not less than thirty days nor more than
ninety days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof,] he desires to be retired,
provided that such member at the time so specified for his retirement shall have
attained the age of 50 and notwithstanding that during such period of notification
he may have separated from service, excepting the physician of the Department
who shall have attained the age of 65 at the time specified for his retirement.

(3) Upon the application of a member [in service] or of his department head,
any member who has had five or more years of creditable service may be retired
by the board of trustees [, not less than thirty and not more than ninety days next
following the date of filing such application,] on an ordinary disability retirement
allowance, provided that the medical board, after a medical examination of such
member, shall certify that such member is mentally or physically incapacitated for
the further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to be permanent,
and that such member should be retired for the good of the Department.

(5) Upon the application of a member [in service,] or of the head of his
department, any member who has been totally and permanently incapacitated for
duty arising out of or in the course of the actual performance of duty, without
wilful negligence on his part, shall be retired by the board of trustees, provided
that the medical board shall certify that such member is mentally or physically
incapacitated for the further performance of duty, that such incapacity is likely to
be permanent, that such incapacity arose out of or was sustained in the course of
the actual performance of duty without wilful negligence on the part of the
member concerned, and that such member should be retired. No beneficiary
entitled to a special disability retirement allowance shall receive any allowance on
account of ordinary disability.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 24, 1973.

CHAPTER 670
(Senate Bill 271)

AN ACT to add new Section 13 to Article 43A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Higher Education Loan
Program," to follow immediately after Section 12 thereof, to establish a
revolving fund loan program for the education of medical and dental students
who will practice medicine or dentistry in the State, to provide for the terms
and conditions of the loans and their repayment, to provide for the methods of
funding this program, and to provide for the duties of the Higher Education
Loan Corporation and to provide funds for this program.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 13 be and it is hereby added to Article 43A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Higher
Education Loan Program," to follow immediately after Section 12 thereof, and to