1232                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 789

more City," to increase the salaries of the judges of the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 125 (a) and (b) of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "Municipal
Court of Baltimore City," be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

125.

(a)    The chief judge of said court shall be paid a salary of
[$16,000.00] $19,500.00 per annum. It shall be the duty of the chief
judge to care for the general business of the court and the general
administration thereof with supervisory control over the several
clerks and other supporting personnel. Without limiting the gen-
erality 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 limitation
shall not prevent either (1) the assignment of another judge tem-
porarily to preside in the housing part in event of the illness, tem-
porary 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 regu-
larly 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 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)   The associate judges of said court shall each be paid a salary
of [$15,000] $18,500.00 per annum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act
shall not apply until January 1, 1966.