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thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800.00) per annum, provided, how-
ever, that no person serving less than twelve months as a judge under
this sub-section shall receive a pension or salary, unless such person in-
voluntarily be caused to resign or retire therefrom because of sick-
ness or physical incapacity or disability before the termination of
the prescribed minimum period of service. Provided further, how-
ever, that any SUCH judge who has retired or who hereafter volun-
tarily retires from active service after reaching the age of sixty-five
years and resumes the practice of law, shall not be entitled to the pen-
sion or salary provided by this sub-section, or any portion thereof. In
the event that a retired judge engaged in the practice of law should
thereafter relinquished RELINQUISH such practice and notify the
County Council and the Director of Finance of Montgomery County of
such fact, then, from and after the date of such notification the judge
shall be entitled to all the benefits provided by this sub-section. This
sub-section shall apply to all judges already retired from active service
except as provided herein. Any former judge who accepts any
salaried public office or position, municipal, County, State or Federal,
shall not be paid any pension or salary so long as he remains in such
office or position. In the event that a retired judge serving in any
salaried public office or position as above enumerated, should there-
after relinquish such office or position and notify the County Council
and the Director of Finance of Montgomery County of such fact,
then from and after the date of such notification the judge shall be
entitled to all the benefits as provided by this sub-section. The County
Council of Montgomery County is hereby expressly authorized to levy
for and pay pensions and salaries, to such former judges of the
People's Court who served on the said Court upon the terms and for
the periods as herein provided; and any such provision heretofore
made is hereby ratified and confirmed.

(1-b) The widow of every FULL-TIME judge who dies in active
service shall be paid one-half of the pension to which such judge would
have been entitled on the date of his death if he had been eligible for
retirement and had retired on said date irrespective of whether he
shall have attained the age of 65 at the date of his death. The widow
of every SUCH judge who dies after retiring shall be paid one-half of
the pension which such judge was receiving at the date of his death.
In order to be entitled to the pension provided by this Section, a widow
of a judge who dies during active service shall have been married to
him for a period of not less than three years prior to his death, and, in
the case of a death of a retired judge, not less than three years before
his retirement. A widow who is entitled to a pension under the pro-
visions of this section shall be paid for the period of her life unless
she remarries, in which event the pension is to cease and terminate.
The provisions of this section shall apply to the widows who have
not remarried and who are otherwise qualified as provided herein, of
judges who died before June 1, 1957.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 25, 1957.