72                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 33

Maryland under its jurisdiction, hereinafter called "producing insti-
tutions," with such plants, machinery, and necessaries as will permit
them adequately to supply all goods, wares, merchandise, and pro-
duce required to be purchased by the needs of the State, its political
subdivisions, and by State-aided, owned, controlled, or managed pub-
lic or quasi-public institutions and agencies, hereinafter called "con-
suming institutions," as may be feasible; but (except as herein other-
wise provided,) in equipping the penal and reformatory institutions
with plants, machinery, and necessaries, the Department of Correc-
tion shall not utilize monies from the so-called State-Use Industries
Fund for any of the permanent, semipermanent, or long-time con-
struction projects or assets which are generally included in the
phrase "capital" assets, expenditures, or projects. Notwithstanding
the provisions of the preceding sentence, the Department of Correc-
tion may establish and utilize a revolving fund which may not at any
time contain a sum of money greater than five hundred thousand dol-
lars ($500,000); the revolving fund may be used for the purchase of
capital assets and also for general operating expenses, and an ac-
curate detailed statement shall be made and transmitted to the Comp-
troller from time to time of all receipts and disbursements from this
revolving fund. All of the consuming institutions shall purchase their
requirements of the same from the Department of Correction exclu-
sively except products such as the Department of Correction in writ-
ing notifies the Department of Budget and Procurement cannot be
furnished by the penal or reformatory institutions of the State, or
such as their perishable nature may render impracticable for such
institutions to furnish; provided, however, that this requirement to
purchase their said needs of the Department of Correction does not
apply to any State-aided, managed, or controlled public or semi-public
institution which does not receive at least fifty per cent of the funds
for its upkeep (exclusive of receipts from its patrons) from the State
of Maryland and/or some political subdivision or subdivisions there-
of. It is the duty of the Department of Correction in the exercise of
the powers hereinbefore contained to diversify its industries in such
a manner as not to work a hardship on any one particular free
industry.

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

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 33
(Senate Bill 80)

AN ACT to add a new Section 9 (8) to Article 73B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1963 Supplement), title "Pen-
sions", sub-title "In General", to follow immediately after Section
9 (7) thereof, amending the laws concerning membership and
creditable service in the State Employees' Retirement System in
order to provide a right of contribution and service credit for cer-
tain members who for temporary periods prior to June 1, 1964,
may fee HAVE BEEN engaged with an employer other than the