THEODORE K. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1149

mission the powers and duties now exercised and performed by
the Traffic Bureau of the Police Department of the City.

(b) To provide by ordinance for the transfer of the personnel,
including the Traffic Engineer of the Traffic Bureau of the
Police Department, but such transfer shall not operate to de-
prive the employees so transferred of any rights they may have
in the Special Fund or Special Fund for Widows of the Police
Department. Any employee so transferred may, however, elect
to become a member of the Employees' Retirement System of
Baltimore City, under such rules and regulations as the Trus-
tees of said Employees' Retirement System shall provide, in-
cluding the right of withdrawal of his contributions to either
or both of said Special Police Funds and depositing the same
with the Employees' Retirement System; and any employee so
electing to become a member of the Employees' Retirement Sys-
tem shall thereafter have no further rights in the said Special
Police Funds. Any employee so transferred who elects not to
become a member of the Employees' Retirement System shall be
entitled to pensions, benefits or allowances for himself, his
widow or dependents under the laws or ordinances in force im-
mediately before the adoption of such ordinance.

(c) The ordinance providing for said transfer shall contain
a provision authorizing and directing the City Service Com-
mission to classify all positions so transferred and all persons
so transferred shall be included in the new classifications of
their respective positions without examination and without any
reduction in pay.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all unexpended
balances of the appropriations for the year 1951 for the sup-
port, operation and maintenance of the Traffic Bureau in the
Police Department of Baltimore City shall be credited to and
be applicable to the support, operation and maintenance of the
Traffic Commission hereby authorized to be created.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13, 1951.