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whom shall hold office at the pleasure of the Sheriff and be removed
at any time the Sheriff may elect, or by the Circuit Court for Howard
County upon indictment and conviction as provided by law. The
County Commissioners may prescribe and provide for the payment
of the traveling and other expenses of the Sheriff and said deputies.
The Sheriff may also appoint temporarily such additional deputy
sheriffs as he may deem necessary for the public safety and the
County Commissioners shall allow reasonable compensation for same,
but such deputies shall not serve longer than the case actually
warrants.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having been
passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the mem-
bers elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1965.

CHAPTER 190
(Senate Bill 491)

AN ACT to add new Section 61B to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Howard County (1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County", sub-
title "County Commissioners and County Collectors", to follow
immediately after Section 61A thereof, as added by Chapters 529
and 770 of the Acts of 1961, relating to the payment of retired
regular employees of Howard County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 61B be and it is hereby added to the Code of Public
Local Laws of Howard County (1957 Edition, being Article 14 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County",
sub-title "County Commissioners and County Collectors", to follow
immediately after Section 61A thereof, as added by Chapters 529
and 770 of the Acts of 1961, and to read as follows:

61A. Any regular employee of Howard County, including any
regular employee of the Board of Education, shall have the right
to retire, and the Board of County Commissioners may effect the
retirement of any such employee, when he or she shall have reached
the age of 65 years. In the event that such employee shall have been
employed by said county for a period of 15 years prior to the date
of his or her retirement under the provisions hereof, the said Board
of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to
pay unto such retired person an annual sum of $1,200.00, payable
in equal monthly installments on the first day of each and every
month during the lifetime of such retired person, accounting from
the date of such retirement.

The term "regular employee" as used herein shall not be construed
to include an employee who is employed periodically or intermittently,