J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      567

any part thereof of active service by appointment and election as a
Judge of said People's Court, up to and including twenty 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 [Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000)] Thirteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00)
TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($12,000.00) per annum. This
section shall apply to any elected Judge already retired from active
service. Any former Judge who accepts any salaried public office or
position, municipal, county, state or federal, shall not be paid any
such pension or salary so long as he remains in any such office or
position. No pension shall be payable hereunder to any retired
Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City who is receiving an-
other pension under the Employees' Retirement System of the City
of Baltimore. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby
expressly authorized to levy for and pay such pensions or salaries to
former Judges of said People's Court of Baltimore City.

436B.

The widow of every ELECTED Judge who dies in active service shall
be paid one-half of the pension or salary the Judge would have received
if his service had been terminated by retirement and for this purpose
only, the age of the Judge is not to be considered; the widow of any
Judge eligible for retirement pension who dies after retiring shall
be paid one-half of the pension or salary to which her husband was
entitled at the time of his death. In determining the amount which
any widow is entitled to be paid after [June 1, 1963] June 1, 1965,
JANUARY 1, 1966, the pension of the deceased Judge shall be calcu-
lated at the rates prescribed by Section 436A (a) of Article 4 of the
Public Local Laws of Baltimore City, [as of that date] or any subse-
quent amendment thereto, notwithstanding that such Judge may have
died prior thereto. In each instance the pension is to be paid to the
widow until her remarriage or death. The provisions of this Section
shall not apply in the case of a widow who was married to the Judge
for a period less than three years and to a retired Judge for a period
less than three years before his retirement; but it shall apply to the
unmarried widows, otherwise qualified, of Judges and retired Judges
who died before the passage of this Act. The Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore are hereby expressly authorized to levy for
and pay such pensions to widows of former Judges of said People's
Court of Baltimore City.

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

June 1, 1965.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THE PAY
RAISES AND INCREASED PENSION FUND PAYMENTS
SHALL BE EFFECTIVE ON AND AFTER JANUARY 1, 1966.

SEC. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT SUBJECT
TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2, THIS ACT SHALL TAKE
EFFECT JUNE 1, 1966 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.