Ch. 51 LAWS OF MARYLAND

benefits in an amount not to exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.) per month.
Such benefits shall be subject to the same restrictions and payable from the same source
as the benefits provided in Section 147 of this Code.]

[106-4.

The provisions of Sections 147 and 148 of this Code shall apply only to employees
qualifying thereunder prior to the establishment by the County Commissioners of any
system of retirement and pension benefits applicable to such employees. The
establishment of such a system shall supersede the provisions of the above sections
insofar as they apply to any person entitled to benefits under the system established.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act may not be
construed to affect the rights of a person who is receiving benefits as of the time of
enactment under the provisions that are repealed in this Act and the person shall
continue to receive benefits as if this Act had not been enacted.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

Approved April 10, 1990.

CHAPTER 51
(House Bill 829)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - Interest on Property Tax - Obsolete Provision

FOR the purpose of repealing from the Code of Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County
a certain provision setting the rate of interest charged on taxes due, but unpaid, in
order to eliminate a conflict with a rate established by ordinance under authority
of State law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County
Section 139-2

Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1978 Edition and September, 1989 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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