THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     27

"Pilots", sub-title "Distribution of Pilotage Fees" amending the
Law as to distribution of pilotage fees, defining full member
Pilots, inactive and disabled Pilots, and relating generally to the
rights and privileges of full member Pilots as compared to other
classes of pilots.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12 of Article 74 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Pilots", sub-title "Distribution of Pilotage
Fees" be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows:

12. [The money collected by the Association of Maryland Pilots
for piloting services under this article shall be distributed as
follows: (a) There shall first be distributed to the Board of Ex-
aminers of Maryland Pilots within ten (10) days after the close of
each calendar month an amount equal of two hundred dollars
($200.00), or 25% of the said monthly distributive portion to which
a pilot engaged in full active service is entitled to receive for such
calendar month, whichever is the greater, times the number of living
pilots of the Association who at the beginning of such month are
either inactive or permanently incapable of performing their duties,
as hereinafter defined in subsection B (b), the Boards of Examiners
of Maryland Pilots shall within ten (10) days after receipt of the
sum or sums fixed in sub-section (a) disburse the same equally to
such of the living pilots of the Association, who, at the beginning
of the calendar month for which said payment is made, were either
inactive or permanently incapable of performing their duties as
pilots as herein defined. A pilot shall be considered inactive within
the meaning of this section from and after the last day of the
month (a) in which such pilot attains the age of 70 years, or (b)
in which such pilot elects to be placed upon the inactive list after
having been a member of the Association for twenty-five years or
more. A pilot shall be considered permanently incapable of per-
forming his duties within the meaning of this section from and after
the last day of the month in which (a) said pilot has been certified
as such by two doctors selected by the Board of Pilot Examiners and
until such incapacity ceases to exist or (b) said pilot's federal or
State license has been revoked for reasons of physical disability and
until such license or licenses have been reissued. The provision of
this section shall apply to such procedure, in conformity with the
provisions hereof which the Association of Maryland Pilots and the
Board of Pilot Examiners may have adopted on or since January 1,
1951, (c) the balance of said money available for distribution, after
the payment of all expenses shall be distributed monthly in accord-
ance with the by-laws of the Association of Maryland Pilots among
the regular working pilots over twenty-one years of age; provided,
however, that the board of supervisors of the Association of Mary-
land Pilots is empowered, authorized and directed to deduct from
such money collected and before such monthly distribution among
the regular working pilots, a certain percentage of said money,
said percentage to be fixed by the Board of Examiners of Maryland
Pilots to be set aside in a separate or reserve fund for replacement
and repairs of major equipment. Such deduction for replacement
and repair reserve shall be in addition to and exclusive of any de-
ductions made by the Association of Maryland Pilots under its