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provided, however, that every classified State employee on January
1, 1957, who as of that date shall have less than five (5) years of
service shall be entitled to receive, as vacation in each calendar
year until his period of service reaches 25 years, a leave of absence
with pay of fifteen (15) working days. The term "years of service",
as used herein shall include any previous continuous State service
in excess of one year as an unclassified employee.

Any employee using less than full vacation leave allowable begin-
ning January 1, 1942 shall be entitled to have such unused leave
accumulated up to thirty working days, which shall be available to
such employee for vacation leave at any time, with the approval of the
head of the department. In addition to such annual vacation leave,
any employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay for not in excess
of thirty working days in any calendar year; provided, however, that
if any employee in any calendar year uses less than the full amount
of sick leave allowable, such unused leave shall be accumulated up
to one hundred working days and shall be available to such employee
for sick leave at any time. Any employee using three or more con-
secutive days sick leave in any thirty day period shall present a
certificate from a duly licensed physician before receiving any pay
for the period of such absence.

Such annual vacation leave credits shall accrue to the employee
after his first six months of State service, on a pro rata basis, and
shall be available to him for such purpose at any time thereafter,
with the approval of the head of the department. Sick leave credits
shall accrue from the beginning of the employee's State service, on
a pro rata basis, and shall be available to him for such purpose as
earned, providing that whenever the employee must be absent from
work because of a death in his immediate family, such absence may
be charged against either earned annual vacation or earned sick
leave, at the option of the employee.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1960.

Approved March 23, 1960.

CHAPTER 59
(House Bill 141)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments. Section 1(3) of
Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Pensions", sub-title "In General", defining as an "employee"
within the meaning of the laws relating to the State Employees'
Retirement System certain persons employed by Miners' Hospital
in Frostburg.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1(3) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Mary-

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.