WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 31
Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

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(e) (1) Law enforcement employees and cadets of the Maryland State Police
who work in excess of their normal 8-hour daily workday and law enforcement
employees of any other State agency who work in excess of their normal 8-hour daily
workday shall receive overtime compensation at one and one-half times their respective
hourly wage rates.

(2) The maximum yearly overtime to be paid any 1 employee of the
Maryland State Police or the Department of Natural Resources is as follows:

Cadet, Maryland State Police Unlimited

Trooper, Trooper First Class and Natural

Resources Officers I, II and III Unlimited

Corporal and Natural

Resources Corporal Unlimited

Sergeant and Natural Resources Sergeant Unlimited
1st Sergeant Unlimited

(3) Funds, other than those designated out of the general funds of the
State, which are allocated from federal, county, or municipal sources, or from State
special fund sources, may be used to pay overtime to law enforcement employees and
cadets of the Maryland State Police holding a noncommissioned rank or Natural
Resources Police whether or not the maximum, limits for each rank listed above have
been paid. A commissioned officer in the State Police or an officer above the rank of
sergeant in the Natural Resources Police is not entitled to receive overtime
compensation in any case, except that compensatory time may be awarded for overtime
performed by a commissioned officer of the State Police or of the Natural Resources
Police in excess of 30 hours per fiscal year.

(4) If an employee's rank is changed during the year, the employee shall be
entitled to the higher of the 2 applicable yearly overtime maximums for the duration of
the year. Overtime payments may not be taken into consideration for retirement or
pension purposes.

(5) Any Natural Resources police officer who for any reason works any
overtime, whether or not the officer is paid monetary overtime compensation for that
time, shall be considered to be employed by the State during those hours for purposes
of all other employee entitlements. Commissioned officers may be awarded
compensatory time for overtime performed in excess of 30 hours per fiscal year.

(6) LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES OF THE MARYLAND
STATE POLICE HOLDING A NONCOMMISSIONED RANK WHO ARE
REQUIRED TO WORK ON ANY PORTION OF THE NEW YEAR'S DAY,
MEMORIAL—DAY—INDEPENDENCE—DAY, THANKSGIVING DAY, OR

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