1116                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 668

20. (Membership in State System.) (a) Membership in the System
for such officers and employees who are admitted as provided in
Section 19 of this Article shall be optional with such officers and
employees in the service on the date the approval is given and any
such officer or employee who elects to join the said Retirement Sys-
tem within one calendar year thereafter, shall be entitled to a prior
service certificate covering full credit for service rendered prior to
date of approval. Any person who was an officer or employee of any
such municipal corporation before or during World War II and who
left his position to serve in military service therein, and who later
re-entered the employment of that or another municipal corporation
within two years from the date of his discharge from military service,
shall be entitled to prior service credit for any part of the period of
such military service not otherwise credited and allowable under the
provisions of this Article; and the expense of allowing such prior
service credit shall be borne by the municipal corporation with which
he is serving on June 1, 1955.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 25, 1955.

CHAPTER 668
(House Bill 526)

AN ACT to repeal Section 2-E of the Maryland-Washington Regional
District Act as enacted by Chapter 992 of the Acts of 1943 and to
enact in lieu thereof Sections 2-E (1) and 2-E (2) of the said Act
so as to authorize the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commision to designate the members of the said Commission from
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, respectively, as a
county planning board for such counties upon the request of the
governing bodies of the said counties, and relating to planning and
zoning in the said counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2-E of the Maryland-Washington Regional District Act
as enacted by Chapter 992 of the Acts pf 1943 be and it is hereby
repealed, and that Sections 2-E (1) and 2-E (2) be and they are
hereby added to said Act to stand in the place and stead of the
Section so repealed, and all to read as follows:

2-E(l). The making of the general plan, including its parts,
amendments, extensions or additions, the protection of and the
carrying out of the plan, and the exercise of all planning, platting,
zoning, sub-division control and all other powers granted in this Act
to the Commission or to the Boards of County Commissioners of
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties shall be with the purposes
of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, comprehensive, adjusted
and systematic development of the District, the coordination and

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