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vide further as to all positions that the Commissioner may by his
rules give preference in competition for higher classes of positions
to classified service employees or to classified service employees of
a certain class or classes by giving credit for experience and demon-
strated efficiency (not to exceed twenty per centum of all marks) in
determining the relative fitness for promotion of such employees.
Veterans of the military and naval services of the United States who
served sometime during the war with Spain (April 6, 1898, to July
2, 1902) or the first World War (April 6, 1917, to November 11,
1918) or in the second World War (September 16, 1940, the date on
which the Selective Service Act became effective, to December 31,
1946, or between June 1, 1950 and June 1, 1953) or who served
sometime during 1965, 1966 and 1967 in a military area or zone
wherein there is conducted an active military policing operation
undertaken by the government of the United States in conjunction
with a foreign nation in combating an existing hostile force or
element without the continental limits of the United States, its terri-
tories or possessions, OR WHO HAVE RECEIVED, OR WHO ARE
ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE, ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEDALS:
(1) THE ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL ESTAB-
LISHED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 10977; (2) THE VIETNAM
SERVICE MEDAL ESTABLISHED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
11231; OR ANY OTHER SERVICE MEDAL ESTABLISHED BY
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHICH HE
FINDS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER TO BE COMPARABLE TO
EITHER (1) OR (2) ABOVE, who have either been honorably dis-
charged or who have received a certificate of satisfactory completion
of such service, and who have been bona fide residents of this State
for five years or more immediately preceding the date on which such
veteran takes any merit system examination, shall be given special
credit for such service; provided, such veterans served a minimum
of ninety days in the service of the United States, as aforesaid, or
were discharged by reason of a disability incurred in line of duty.
Such war veterans who are disabled as a result of their war service
shall be given a credit of ten points in all examinations for appoint-
ments. Non-disabled veterans shall be given a credit of five points in
all examinations for appointment. All such credits shall also be

allowed in determining whether any such veteran attains a passing

mark in any examination. ALL SUCH CREDIT SHALL BE
ALLOWED ONLY IN DETERMINING THE STANDING ON THE
CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBLES OF SAID VETERAN.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 288
(House Bill 159)

AN ACT to add new Sections 130 to 136 to Article 26 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1965 Supplement),
title "Courts," to follow immediately after Section 129 thereof and
to be under the new subtitle "Review of Criminal Sentences,"