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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 five
hundred dollars ($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 eight thousand dollars ($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 in-
voluntarily 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 subsection, or any portion
thereof. In the event that a retired judge engaged in the practice of
law should thereafter relinquish such practice and notify the County
Commissioners and internal auditor [county treasurer] of Prince
George's County of such 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 Commissioners and [county treasurer] internal
auditor of Prince George's County of such fact, then from and after
the date of such notification the judge shall be entitled to all the
benefits as provided by this subsection. The County Commissioners
of Prince George's County are hereby expressly authorized to levy
for and 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 confirmed.

(g) The widow of every full-time judge who dies in active service
shall be paid one-half of the pension to which such judge would have
been entitled on the date of his death if he had been eligible for
retirement and had retired on said date irrespective of whether he
shall have attained the age of 65 at the date of his death. The widow
of every such judge who dies after retiring shall be paid one half of
the pension which such judge was receiving at the date of his death.
In order to be entitled to the pension provided by this subsection, a
widow of a judge who dies during active service shall have been
married to him for a period of not less than three years prior to his
death, and, in the case of a death of a retired judge, not less than
three years before his retirement. A widow who is entitled to a
pension under the provisions of this subsection shall be paid for the
period of her life unless she remarries, in which event the pension
is to cease and terminate. The provisions of this subsection shall
apply to the widows who have not remarried and who are otherwise
qualified as provided herein, or judges who died before January
1, 1962.