J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR 205
CHAPTER 74

(House Bill 135)

AN ACT, to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5 (d)
of Article 88B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "State Police", sub-title "In General", amending the laws
concerning the base pay and the longevity pay of members of the
Department of Maryland State Police in order to change the for-
mula for the computation of longevity pay.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 (d) of Article 88B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "State Police", sub-title "In General",
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

5 (d) Base pay and longevity pay. —Each of the said salaries
shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to be the base pay
for each rank and grade. For each three years of service up to and
including twenty-four years of service, each police employee shall
receive, in addition to the base pay received by him during each
month of every year coming after the first three years of his service,
an amount equal to [5% of said base pay for the first three years of
service, 10% for the second three years and so on until the total of
his years of service is twenty-four] a percentage of base pay in ac-
cordance with this schedule; after S years of service, 5%; after 6
years of service, 15%; after 9 years of service, 20%; after 12 years
of service, 25%; after 15 years of service, 30%; after 18 years of
service, 35%; after 21 years of service, 40%; after 24 years of
service, 45%; and after he has had twenty-four years of service,
his longevity pay shall continue to be [40%] 45% of whatever his
base pay may be thereafter, from time to time. Such amount
shall be paid to him simultaneously with his base pay. Any in-
crease or decrease in base pay, received in any month of any such
three year period by reason of promotion, demotion or otherwise
shall be taken into account in determining the longevity pay re-
ceivable by any such employee and, in figuring the same, the 5%,
or multiple or multiples thereof, as the case may be, shall be taken
of the increased or decreased base pay. In calculating longevity
pay for those who are police employees of the Department on
May 4, 1943, the years of service rendered by each such employee
to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and/or to the Department
prior to the beginning of the fiscal year ending in 1944 and to the
Department thereafter shall be taken into account.

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

Approved March 23, 1960.

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.