552                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 378

applicable to the Judges of the People's Court for Montgomery
County and relating generally to pensions or salary payable to
the Judges of the People's Court for Montgomery County after the
termination of active service, subject to conditions.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That Section 108 (15) (b) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle "Trial
Magistrate's System," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

108.

(15) (b) Every full-time judge of the People's Court for Mont-
gomery County shall be paid, after the termination of active service,
if he is then at least sixty-five years of age, or when he becomes sixty-
five years of age, a pension or salary calculated at the rate of [four]
five hundred dollars [$400.00] $500.00 per annum for each year, or
any part thereof, of active service, up to and including sixteen years
of such active service, so that the maximum pension or salary for
such service payable hereunder to any one person shall not exceed the
sum of [six] eight thousand [four hundred] dollars [$6,400.00]
$8,000.00 per annum, provided, however, that no person serving less
than twelve months as a judge under this subsection shall receive a
pension or salary, unless such person involuntarily be caused to resign
or to retire therefrom because of sickness or physical incapacity or
disability before the termination of the prescribed minimum period
of service. Provided further, however, that any such judge who has
retired or who hereafter voluntarily retires from active service after
reaching the age of sixty-five years and resumes the practice of law,
shall not be entitled to the pension or salary provided by this sub-
section, or any portion thereof. In the event that a retired judge
engaged in the practice of law should thereafter relinquish such prac-
tice and notify the County Council and the director of finance of
Montgomery County of such [tact/fact/] fact, then, from and after
the date of such notification the judge shall be entitled to all the
benefits provided by this subsection. This subsection shall apply to
all judges already retired from active service except as provided
herein. Any former judge who accepts any salaried public office or
position, municipal, county, State or federal, shall not be paid any
pension or salary so long as he remains in such office or position. In
the event that a retired judge serving in any salaried public office or
position as above enumerated, should thereafter relinquish such office
or position and notify the County Council and the director of finance
of Montgomery County of such fact, then from and after the date of
such notification the judge shall be entitled to all the benefits as pro-
vided by this subsection. The County Council of Montgomery County
is hereby expressly authorized to levy for any pay pensions and
salaries to such former judges of the People's Court who served on
the said court upon the terms and for the periods as herein provided;
and any such provision heretofore made is hereby ratified and con-
firmed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.