J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1965

clerks and other supporting personnel. Without limiting the general

ity of the foregoing, he shall have power to assign and rotate the

judges of said court among its various divisions and parts in such

manner as he shall determine, subject to the limitations hereinafter
in this subsection provided with respect to the housing part of the
criminal division and to designate the days of the week and hours

of the day or night when such judges shall sit in the various parts

and divisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing power in the chief

judge to assign and rotate the judges of said court, any assignment

to the housing part of the criminal division shall be for a minimum
period of twelve months, provided, however, that the foregoing limita-
tion shall not prevent either (1) the assignment of another judge

temporarily to preside in the housing part in event of the illness,

temporary absence or other temporary inability to serve of the judge
regularly assigned to the housing part; or (2) the regular assignment

of another judge to the housing part, from time to time, for such

minimum period of twelve months, in the event of the request for
reassignment by or the resignation or other permanent inability to
serve of the judge regularly assigned to the housing part, or in the
event of the reassignment by the chief judge with the concurrence

and approval of a majority of all the other judges, of the judge
regularly assigned to the housing part, or (3) the judge regularly
assigned to the housing part from being assigned from time to time
to preside in another part or division of the court when not engaged
in the trial of cases in the housing part.

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 asso-

ciate judge who shall be senior in date of admission to practice be-
fore 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). The associate judges of said court shall each be paid a salary
of [$15,000] $17,500 per annum.

(c). (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 dollars ($350.00)] six FIVE hundred dollars ($600.00) ($500.00)
per annum for each year or any part thereof of active service by ap-
pointment and election as a judge of said Municipal Court up to and
including twenty years of such active service, so that a maximum pen-
sion or salary for such service payable hereunder to any one person
shall not exceed the sum of [seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00)]
twelve TEN thousand dollars ($12,000.00) ($10,000.00) 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' retirement system of the City of Baltimore, or
the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland.