438                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 179

the State of Maryland, except benefits from Social Security, such
official shall be deemed to have waived the benefits thereof by accept-
ing the payment of benefits under this article. Upon receiving a
claim for such service credit from the official, the board of trustees
of the Retirement System shall verify the fact of such previous em-
ployment and the creditable service to which the member is entitled,
compute the amount due from such political subdivision for which
credit is claimed, and submit a statement to the participating munici-
pal corporation for such amount, such computation to be based upon
the compensation actually received by the official from the municipal
corporation during the period for which service is to be credited.
The participating municipal corporation is authorized and directed
forthwith to pay the said amount to the Retirement System, or to
place it in the next ensuing budget for prompt payment when that
budget becomes effective. The board of trustees is authorized and
directed to include any amount due from the State in the appropria-
tion allowed by the next ensuing State budget.

Any such official who receives membership service credit for
service rendered to the State or to a participating municipal corpo-
ration under the provisions of this subsection shall pay to the re-
tirement system by single payment, within such period of time as
may be determined by the board of trustees, the contributions, with
interest, which he would have paid had he been a member of the
retirement system but withdrew. Provided, however, that any such
member may waive the payment of any or all such contributions,
in which case upon retirement any ordinary disability retirement
allowance or any allowance due to non-reappointment or non-
re-election to any office payable to such an official, shall be reduced
by the actuarial equivalent of those contributions which he had not
paid, with interest to date of retirement.

The total retirement allowance that would have been payable to the
beneficiary had he not waived his contributions shall be used as the
basis for the determination of any supplemental payment under the
provisions of Section 14 (7) of this article.

Provided further than any desk officer or employee of either house
of the General Assembly, who was receiving an annual salary as
compensation for such employment as of February 1, 1961, and who
previously served as a desk officer or employee of either house of
the General Assembly and received per diem compensation for such
previous service, shall be entitled to prior service credit equal to four
years for any four-year term of a General Assembly during which
such previous service was rendered.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1964.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 179
(House Bill 306)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 713 (i)
of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1963 Supple-