Ch. 6

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(d)     Every judge under Plan B contributes toward the cost of the judge's pension in
an amount equal to six per centum (6%) of the judge's annual compensation earned
thereafter which is deducted from the judge's compensation each pay period and paid
over to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City.

(e)     Any judge who was given the option of electing between Plan A or Plan B who
initially does not elect to. be under Plan B provided for in this subsection, but who later
wishes to do so. must, upon such election, pay in a lump sum, in addition to the annual
contributions provided for in this subsection an amount equal to the contributions the
judge would have made, if initially under the plan for each year after June 30, 1970, plus
interest of four percent (4%).

(f)      Any judge covered by Plan B provided for in this subsection who resigns, for
reasons other than disability, prior to, reaching sixty years of age, shall be entitled to allow
the judge's contributions to remain in the pension system and shall at sixty years of age be
entitled to a pension as provided in this subsection; or shall be entitled to withdraw the
judge's accumulated contributions plus interest of four per centum (4%) calculated from
the date or dates of payment and shall forfeit any pension rights under the provisions of
this subsection.

(g)     In no event shall any judge make the contributions provided for in this
subsection for more than sixteen years.

(h) Any former judge who accepts any salaried public office or position,
municipal, county, State or federal shall not be paid any pension or salary so long as the
former judge remains in any such office or position. Upon retirement from the other
salaried public office or position, the former judge is eligible to receive benefits from all
public-supported retirement systems in which the former judge participated, but may not
receive benefits under more than one pension system for the same period of service.

(i) No pension shall be payable hereunder to any retired judge who is receiving
another pension under the Employees' Retirement System of the City of Baltimore or the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland.                                       

(j) The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City are hereby expressly
authorized to levy for such pensions or salaries, or their proportionate share thereof as
the case may be, and pay such pensions or salaries to former judges of the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City.                                                                                                

(k) Provided, however, that any such judge who voluntarily retires from active
service after reaching the age of 60 years and before reaching the age of 70 years, and has
resumed the practice of law, shall not be entitled to the increases in pension provided by
this section but shall be paid a pension at the rate provided before the passage of this
section. A judge who retires and accepts the pension provided by this section shall not
during the period of such acceptance engage in the practice of law. A judge who has been
receiving the benefits provided by this section and who decides to. engage in the practice
of law may notify the Governor and Comptroller of the Treasury of such fact, and on the
indicated date of the former judge's engaging in the practice of law the former judge's
benefits under this section shall cease and no longer be paid; and such a judge shall never
again be paid such benefits. In the event that a retired judge who has never been paid

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