392 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 214

CHAPTER 214
(House Bill 303)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
85 of Article 65 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Militia", sub-title "Re-employment
of Persons in Military Service", renewing, until 1955,
the rights of certain persons in military service to
civilian re-employment and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 85 of Article 65 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Militia", sub-title
"Re-employment of Persons in Military Service", be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

85. [(a)] The rights and status of any person inducted
into the land or naval forces of the United States within
the period beginning September 1, 1940, and ending De-
cember 31, 1945, or within the period beginning June 1,
1950, and ending June 1, [1953] 1955, for training and
service pursuant to the Act of Congress known as the Selec-
tive Training and Service Act of 1940, or any subsequent
Acts of a similar nature, and any member of any reserve
component of the land or naval forces of the United States
on active duty or service within said period or ordered or
assigned to active duty or service within said period, as
well as any person who, within said period, enlists in the
armed forces of the United States, and who may be absent in
such military service shall be as follows in any pension or
retirement fund or system, including the Teachers' Retire-
ment System of the State of Maryland: During the period
of such absence, no such person or his estate shall have any-
right or be entitled to ordinary disability benefits, acci-
dental disability benefits, death benefits, optional allow-
ances or other disability or death benefits in any such fund
or system. Any such person, during such absence except
as herein otherwise specified, shall retain his status and
rights as a member of any such pension or retirement
fund or system (a) if he does not withdraw any part of
his accumulated contributions, and (b) if within one year

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