STATE POLICE 3225

two other physicians to be selected by the Superintendent of the State
Police and acceptable to the State Police Department employee concerned
to be physically incapable of performing the duties and services required
of him; and in all retirements under the provisions of this section the
employee in question shall be paid during the remainder of his natural life
a salary or pension, payable monthly, equal to two per cent (2%) of his
annual salary multiplied by the number of years said applicant has been
an employee of the Department of Maryland State Police and/or of the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, said annual salary to be taken as of the
year immediately preceding the granting of his application for retire-
ment, provided, however, that such payment shall not in any event be
more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) per year to any one person. No
money payable tinder this sub-title shall, prior to issuance and delivery
of the warrant or voucher therefor, be capable of being assigned, charged
or taken in execution or attachment. All employees subject to the provisions
of this sub-title shall contribute to the Pension Fund, hereinafter pro-
vided for, a sum to be determined by the superintendent of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police but not to exceed three and one-half per
centum (3 1/2%) of their annual salary, said sum to be approximately
equal to one-half of the annual cost of this pension system to the individual
employee so contributing. The amount of the contribution of each of the
employees subject to the provisions of this sub-title shall be fixed annually
in advance by the superintendent of the Department of Maryland State
Police and shall be deducted monthly from the salary checks of the said
employees and paid in lieu thereof to the superintendent of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police to be placed by him forthwith in the said
Pension Fund. The said Fund shall also consist of all fines imposed upon
members of the Maryland State Police by way of discipline, donations and
net proceeds of sales of unclaimed property in the custody of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 31. 1939, ch. 696, sec. 32.

32. The Superintendent of the Department of Maryland State Police
may, in his discretion, reduce or discontinue relief granted to any former
member receiving a pension who shall be convicted in any court of any
crime and who was sentenced therefor to serve a year or more in a jail
or prison.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 32. 1939, ch. 696, sec. 33.

33. All employees eligible for retirement under the provisions of this
sub-title shall be subject to a medical examination by the regular physician
of the Department of Maryland State Police or by any other physician the
superintendent of said Department may select; and all such employees so
eligible shall furnish such other evidence affecting their application for
retirement as the superintendent of State Police may require.

If a member of the State Police becomes physically incapable of per-
forming his duties and such disability is the result of an accident or
injury occurring in the course of duty or is the result of sickness, accident
or disease contracted in the course of duty and if such member has been
in the Department for ten years or more, then he shall be entitled to the
same retirement pension as provided for in Section 31.

If any member of the Department of Maryland State Police dies either
before or after retirement from the service on a pension, leaving a widow