368                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 290

CHAPTER 290

(Senate Bill 435)

AN ACT to add new Section 596A to the Charter and Public Local
Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition), being Article 4 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore City",
sub-title "Police Commissioners", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 596 thereof and to be under the new sub-heading "Park
Police", providing generally for the status, rights and duties of
certain persons who became members of the Baltimore City Police
Department as a result of or prior to the merger of the park police
with the Police Department.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 596A be and it is hereby added to the Charter and
Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition), being Article
4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore
City", sub-title "Police Commissioners", to follow immediately after
Section 596 thereof and to be under the new sub-heading "Park
Police", and to read as follows:

Park Police
596A.

Any person who became a member of the Baltimore City Police
Department as a result of the merger of the Park Police, a Division
of the Department of Recreation and Parks, of the City of Baltimore,
with the Police Department shall be deemed to have been a member
of the Baltimore City Police Department for the period such person
was employed as a member of the said Park Police Division; and the
period of each person's employment time spent with the Park Police
Division prior to the effective date of the merger on January 1,1961,
shall be held to have been spent in the service of the Baltimore City
Police Department for purposes of probationary period, seniority
rating, length of service for compensation, or additional compensa-
tion, eligibility for promotion and all other purposes except eligibil-
ity for membership in the Special Fund and the Special Fund for
Widows; and each person shall continue in the rank attained in the
Park Police Division during his tenure in the Baltimore City Police
Department, until promoted, reduced, retired, dropped, dismissed,
or otherwise altered, according to law, and in the same manner as
other members of the Baltimore City Police Department. Any person
who is a member of the Baltimore City Police Department shall be
given credit for all the purposes aforesaid for all time spent as a
member of the said Park Police Division.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

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.