J. Millard Tawes, Governor                        959

REGULARLY ASSIGNED TO THE HOUSING PART FROM BE-
ING ASSIGNED FROM TIME TO TIME TO PRESIDE IN AN-
OTHER PART OR DIVISION OF THE COURT WHEN NOT EN-
GAGED IN THE TRIAL OF CASES IN THE HOUSING PART.

He shall be paid a salary of $16,000 per annum.

In the absence of the Chief Judge, that Associate Judge who is
senior in service on the Court shall be the acting Chief Judge. If two
or more Associate Judges shall be equally senior in such service, that
Associate Judge who shall be senior in date of admission to practice
before the Court of Appeals of Maryland, from among the Associate
Judges equally senior in such service, shall be the Acting Chief
Judge. The Acting Chief Judge shall perform all of the duties and
exercise all of the powers imposed and conferred upon the Chief
Judge during the absence of the Chief Judge.

(b)  Associate Judges.—The Associate Judges of said Court shall
each be paid a salary of $15,000 per annum.

(c)  Retirement.—

(1)  Every elected Judge of the Municipal Court of Baltimore City
shall be paid, after the termination of his active service, if he is then
at least sixty years of age or when he becomes sixty years of age, a
pension or salary calculated at the rate of Three Hundred Fifty Dol-
lars—($350.00) per annum for each year or any part thereof of
active service by appointment and election as a Judge of said
Municipal Court, up to and including twenty years of such active
service, so that a maximum pension or salary for such service pay-
able hereunder to any one person shall not exceed the sum of Seven
Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) per annum. Any former Judge who
accepts any salaried public office or position, municipal, county, state
or federal, shall not be paid any such pension or salary so long as he
remains in any such office or position. No pension shall be payable
hereunder to any retired Judge of the Municipal Court of Baltimore
City who is receiving another pension under the Employees' Retire-
ment System of the City of Baltimore, or the Employees' Retirement
System of the State of Maryland.

(2)  The widow of every elected Municipal Judge who dies in active
service shall be paid one-half of the pension or salary the Judge
would have received if his service had been terminated by retirement
and for this purpose only, the age of the Judge is not to be considered;
the widow of any Judge eligible for retirement pension who dies
after retiring shall be paid one-half of the pension or salary to which
her husband was entitled at the time of his death. In each instance
the pension is to be paid to the widow until her remarriage or death.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply in the case of a widow
who was married to the Judge for a period less than three years and
to a retired Judge for a period less than three years before his re-
tirement.

(d)  The Judges shall devote their full time to the duties of said
Court. They shall not maintain an office for the practice of law nor
shall they have an interest in any said office, whether conducted in
whole or in part by themselves or others; neither shall they allow
their names to be used in connection with any law office nor shall
they profit directly or indirectly from the practice of law by whom-
soever conducted or operated.