106 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 53

Baltimore County, edition of 1929, title No. 49, "Police
and Police Stations, " (Flack's Code 1930, Article 3, Sec-
tion 530), as repealed and re-enacted with amendments
by Chapter 244, Acts 1931, so as to render the Assistant
or Deputy Chief of Police eligible for retirement on
pension.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 530 of the Public Local Laws of
Baltimore County (as enacted by Section 438G, Chapter
164, Acts 1920), codified in Offutt's Revised Code of the
Public Local Laws of Baltimore County, edition of 1929,
title No. 49, "Police and Police Stations" (Flack's Code,
1930, Article 3, Section 530), as repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments by Chapter 244, Acts 1931, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

Section 530. The County Commissioners of Baltimore
County are hereby authorized to retire from office in the
Police Department of Baltimore County, any permanent
member thereof, including the Chief and the Assistant or
Deputy Chief of Police, who has become permanently dis-
abled while in the active performance of duty or has per-
formed faithful service in the department for a period of
not less than twenty consecutive years, and place the mem-
ber so retired upon a pension roll and allow to each pen-
sioner annually an amount equal to one-half the yearly
amount received by him at the time of his retirement, pay-
able in monthly installments, that no member of the Police
Department of Baltimore County shall be so retired until
he shall have been examined by the Board of Examiners
herein provided for and their findings as to the disability
assigned as reason for a retirement shall have been certified
by them to the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County; and provided that the members in the service of
the Police Department at the time of the passage of this
Act shall be credited with the amount of time which they
shall have served in said department to the same extent as
though they had served such period in said department
after the passage of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on and after the first day of June, 1933.

Approved March 31, 1933.