THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1533

Department of Baltimore County, any permanent member
thereof, including the Chief and the Assistant or Deputy
Chief of Police, who has become permanently disabled
while in the active performance of duty or has performed
faithful service in the department for a period of not less
than twenty consecutive years, and place the member so
retired upon a pension roll and allow to each pensioner an-
nually an amount equal to one-half the yearly amount re-
ceived by him at the time of his retirement, payable in
monthly installments, provided that no member of the
Police Department of Baltimore County shall be so re-
tired 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. ] and pro-
vided further that any member retired prior to January 1,
1951, shall be allowed an amount at least equal to the
amount such member would receive had he been retired
as of January 1, 1951, from an employment similar to that
from which he was retired.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 27, 1951.

CHAPTER 537
(Senate Bill 311)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 25A (a) of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles, "
sub-title "Administration—Registration—Titling, " and
to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 261 (g)

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