1622                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 742

CHAPTER 742
(House Bill 686)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 108 (16)
(f) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Sup-
plement), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle "Trial Magistrate
System," to remove a provision PROVIDE that Judges of the
People's Court for Prince George's County shall be paid a pension
when AFTER THE TERMINATION OF ACTIVE SERVICE IF
they become ARE sixty-five years of age, without changing
other provisions as to their entitlement to such pension.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 108 (16) (f) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1966 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle
"Trial Magistrate System," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, and to read as follows:

108.

(16) (f) Every full-time Judge of the People's Court for Prince
George's 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 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 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
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, how-
ever, that any such judge who has retired or who hereafter volun-
tarily 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 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 re-
linquish such office or position and notify the County Commissioners
and 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 as provided by this subsection. The County Com-
missioners 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