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land (1957 Edition), title "Pensions", sub-title "In General", be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

1(3) "Employee" shall mean any regular classified or unclassified
officer or employee of the State for whom compensation is provided
for by State appropriation, or whose compensation is paid from
State funds, including all regular employees of the State Roads
Commission, whether classified or unclassified and whether paid
on an annual, daily or hourly basis, and shall expressly include
those engaged in work on the maintenance of county roads under
the supervision of the State Roads Commission. Provided, however,
that all unclassified persons working for the State Roads Commis-
sion or on county roads under the supervision and control of the
State Roads Commission on an hourly basis who have not been
regularly employed in such work for a period of one year, shall not
be eligible for membership until they shall have been so regularly
employed for a period of one year. The term "employee" shall in-
clude any appointed or elected employee of the State, and any clerk
of any court and register of wills, and shall include the Sheriff of
Baltimore City and the employees of his office, It shall exclude any
person who is a member of or eligible to membership in the Teach-
ers' Retirement System of the State of Maryland or the State Police
Pension Fund or the Judges Retirement System and any class of
employees whose compensation is only partly paid by the State or
who are serving on a temporary basis. The term "employee" also
shall include any person who was regularly employed by Miners'
Hospital in Frostburg and who was a member of the Retirement
System at the time it was transferred from State ownership, and
who continues in employment at the Hospital after the transfer, so
long as all contributions to the Retirement System which are re-
quired from both employee and employer are made when and as pay-
able. FROM AND AFTER THE TIME THE HOSPITAL IS
TRANSFERRED FROM STATE OWNERSHIP, THE STATE NO
LONGER HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PAYING THE
EMPLOYER'S SHARE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS. In all cases
of doubt, the board of trustees, provided for in Section 11 of this
Article, shall determine whether any person is an employee as
defined in this Article, irrespective of the method of payment.

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

Approved March 23, 1960.

CHAPTER 60
(House Bill 143)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 76 and 77 of Article 101 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Workmen's Com-

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.