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mation required by this sub-title. All records required hereunder
shall be open to inspection at all times by the Department, and upon
demand shall be presented to the Department for inspection. This
sub-title shall not apply to solicitations conducted by or on behalf
of religious corporations, municipal corporations, hospitals, volun-
teer fire companies, fire and police departments and any charitable
organization which is a member of any Community Chest or United
Fund organized and existing under the corporation laws of the State
of Maryland, TO THE EXTENT THAT FUNDS DERIVED FROM
SUCH SOLICITATIONS ARE REPORTED BY THE COMMUNITY
CHEST OR UNITED FUND BUT FUNDS DERIVED FROM
SOLICITATION NOT SO REPORTED SHALL BE REPORTED
AS OTHERWISE HEREIN REQUIRED. This sub-title is not to
apply to any charitable organization which does not actually receive
contributions in excess of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) during
any calendar period, provided its fund raising functions are carried
on by persons not paid for their services and provided no part of the
assets or income of the charitable organization inures to the benefit
of or is paid to any officer or member of such organization.

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

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 613
(Senate Bill 507)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 11 (11)
(b) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Sup-
plement), title "Pensions", sub-title "In General", to provide for
the option 2 benefit to the spouse upon death after the attainment
of age 55 with 15 or more years of creditable service for State
employees.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11 (11) (b) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Supplement), title "Pensions", sub-title "In Gen-
eral", be and it hereby is repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

11.

(11)

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this sub-section
or elsewhere in this article, whenever any member who is eligible
for service retirement under the provisions of Section 11 (1) (a) of
this article or who has attained the age of fifty-five and has rendered
fifteen or more years of creditable service dies in service, without
having nominated by written designation a beneficiary other than
his spouse, leaving a surviving spouse with whom he was living as
husband or wife on the date of his death, said spouse shall be
entitled to a retirement allowance equal to that which would have