1440                             Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 818

COMES AN EMPLOYEE OF SAID DEPARTMENT OR OF SAID
COMMISSIONER ON OR AFTER JUNE 1, 1943, SHALL BE
ENTITLED TO CONTRIBUTE TO, OR BE ELIGIBLE TO BE-
COME A MEMBER OF THE PENSION FUND OF SAID DE-
PARTMENT, BUT SHALL BECOME A MEMBER OF, AND
SHALL IN EVERY RESPECT BE SUBJECT TO, SAID EM-
PLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

51.

THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM SHALL
CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING:

(1)  Any person who shall become an employer EMPLOYEE as
herein defined after the date of establishment shall become a mem-
ber of the Retirement System as a condition of employment, and
shall not be entitled to receive any pension or retirement allowance
from any other pension or retirement system supported wholly or
in part by the State of Maryland, anything to the contrary notwith-
standing.

(2)   Any person who is an employee on the date of establishment,
except any person for whom special provision is made under sub-
section (3) of this section, shall become a member as of that date.

(3)   Any person who is an employee on the date of establishment
and who is on that date and has been since June 1, 1935, a member
of the State Police pension fund shall become a member as of the date
of establishment unless within a period of thirty days next following
such employee shall file with the board of trustees, on a form pre-
scribed by the board, a notice of his election not to be covered in the
membership in the Retirement System and a duly executed waiver
of all present and prospective benefits which would otherwise inure
to him on account of his participation in the Retirement System. Any
person who was a member of the State Police Pension Fund on June
1,1949, and who elected in 1949 not to be covered in the membership
in the retirement system, shall have the further opportunity to be-
come a member of the retirement system, at any time between June 1,
1961, and December 31, 1961, both dates inclusive, and not thereafter
; BUT THIS ELIGIBILITY IS ONLY FOR PERSONS WHO
WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE RETIRE-
MENT SYSTEM IF THEY HAD BEGUN THEIR EMPLOYMENT
IN 1961. If during that time he elects to be covered in the membership
of the retirement system, his membership therein shall begin as of the
first day of the calendar month next following the day of his election,
subject to the conditions of this section and of the other provisions of
this Article not inconsistent with this section. Any person who thus
becomes a member of the retirement system shall receive credit
therein for what would have been his prior service as of June 1, 1949.
Before being admitted to such membership, any such person shall
pay to the retirement system the full amount of what would have
been his accumulated contributions therein had he in fact belonged to
the system from June 1, 1949, to the date upon which he becomes a
member under the provisions of this action, together with regular
interest thereon. The State shall make such matching contributions
to the retirement system as it would have made had the person in
fact belonged to the system from June 1, 1949, to the date upon