166                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 174

CHAPTER 174
(House Bill 204)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 108 (15)

(a)   and 108 (15) (b) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title
"Trial Magistrates System", increasing the compensation of and
modifying the pension provisions for the chief judge and the asso-
ciate judges of the People's Court of Montgomery County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 108 (15) (a) and 108 (15) (b) of Article 52 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates System", be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

108.

(15) (a) There shall be three full-time judges of the People's Court
of Montgomery County. The chief judge of said court shall receive
A SALARY OF [$13,500] $15,500 PER YEAR AND EACH OF
THE TWO ASSOCIATE JUDGES THEREOF SHALL RECEIVE
a salary of [$13,000] $15,000 per year.

(b)   Every full-time judge of the People's Court for Montgomery
County shall be paid, after the termination of active service, if he is
then at least sixty-five years of age, or when he becomes sixty-five
years of age, a pension or salary calculated at the rate of four hun-
dred dollars ($400.00) per annum for each year, or any part thereof,
of active service, up to and including [twelve] sixteen years of such
active service, so that the maximum pension or salary for such
service payable hereunder to any one person shall not exceed the sum
of [four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800.00)] six thousand
four hundred dollars ($6,400.00) per annum, provided, however, that
no person serving less than twelve months as a judge under this sub-
section shall receive a pension or salary, unless such person involun-
tarily be caused to resign or to retire therefrom because of sickness
or physical incapacity or disability before the termination of the
prescribed minimum period of service. Provided further, however,
that any such judge who has retired or who hereafter voluntarily re-
tires from active service after reaching the age of sixty-five years
and resumes the practice of law, shall not be entitled to the pension
or salary provided by this subsection, or any portion thereof. In the
event that a retired judge engaged in the practice of law should there-
after relinquish such practice and notify the county council and the
director of finance of Montgomery County of such tact, then, from
and after the date of such notification the judge shall be entitled to all
the benefits provided by this subsection. This subsection 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

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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