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make requisition upon the Commissioner for the appointment of an extra
employee stating the duties to be performed and the probable length of
employment. The Commissioner shall authorize the appointment of, with
or without competitive examination, a qualified person; provided, how-
ever, that so far as practicable appointment to extra positions shall be
made from the eligible lists; and provided further that no such appointment
shall be made for a period exceeding ninety days.

An appointing authority or any officer authorized by an appointing
authority may, to prevent the stoppage of the public business when an
emergency arises and time will not permit of the securing of the consent
of the Commissioner and the appointment by him of a person, appoint any
qualified person during the emergency for a period not exceeding sixty
days. Persons thus appointed shall be known as emergency employees.
Prompt report shall be made to the Commissioner of emergency appoint-
ments and such appointments shall not be renewed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1920, ch. 41, sec. 13.

14. The Commissioner shall, in his annual report, recommend to the
Governor schedules of compensation for each of the classes of positions
established pursuant to this Article. Said schedules shall prescribe a
minimum and maximum salary rate and such intermediate rates as may
be considered necessary and proper to provide increases between the mini-
mum and the maximum. The Commissioner shall also report to the
Governor the rates being paid for similar services elsewhere, in public
and private service, together with other information pertaining to a proper
rate of compensation.

Cited in Board of Welfare v. Listman, 175 Md. 475.

See notes to See. 25.

1939, ch. 385, sec. ISA.

15. There is hereby created a Board to be known as the "Salary Stand-
ards Board" to consist of three members; one member shall be the Com-
missioner of State Employment and Registration who will serve as an
ex officio member of the Board; one member shall be the Director of the
Budget, who shall serve as an ex officio member; one member who shall
be familiar with industrial and commercial employment and pay policies
in the State, shall be appointed by the Governor for a six-year term.

1939, ch. 385, sec. 13B.

16. After consultation with appointing authorities, the Salary Stand-
ards Board shall prepare and recommend to the Governor a pay plan for
all classes of positions in the Classified Service to the end that all positions
in the Classified Service involving comparable duties, experience, responsi-
bilities and authority shall be paid in accordance with the standard salary
schedule. In establishing rates of pay, the Salary Standards 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 when approved by the Governor.
Amendments thereto may, from time to time, be recommended by the
Board and when approved by the Governor shall have the force of law in