SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       653

98.

(a) As of June 15, 1955, the County Council for Montgomery
County shall appoint three judges of the People's Court of Mont-
gomery County who shall meet the qualifications provided in this
article and who shall serve until the first day of May in the year
1963 or until their successors are appointed and qualified. As of the
first day of May, 1963, and as of the first day of May in every tenth
year thereafter, the County Council of Montgomery County shall
appoint three judges of the People's Court of Montgomery County to
fill the positions then expiring. As of January 1, 1962, the County
Council for Montgomery County shall appoint an additional full-time
judge of the People's Court of Montgomery County who shall meet
the qualifications provided in this article and who shall serve until
the first day of January, 1970, or until his successor is appointed and
qualified. As of the first day of January, 1970, and as of the first
day of January in every tenth year thereafter, the County Council
of Montgomery County shall appoint one judge of the People's Court
of Montgomery County to fill the position then expiring. As of June
1, 1967, the County Council shall appoint an additional full-time
judge of the People's Court of Montgomery County who shall meet
the qualifications provided in this Article and who shall serve until
June 1, 1977, or until his successor is appointed and qualified. As of
June 1, 1977, and as of the first day of June in every tenth year
thereafter, the County Council shall appoint one judge of the People's
Court of Montgomery County to fill the position then expiring. [One]
Two of such judges shall be designated as the People's Court judges
for juvenile causes and the senior, in time of service, of the said two
judges shall be the administrative officer of the People's Court for
Juvenile Causes in Montgomery County; one of the judges of the
People's Court handling criminal, civil, and traffic cases shall be
designated as chief judge and administrative officer for the said
court, the committing magistrates and other personnel. Said judge
so designated as chief judge shall be and continue as chief judge and
administrative officer for said court until his term expires and his
successor is appointed and qualifies, unless said chief judge is removed
from office under the provisions of Section 98(e) of this article in
which event the County Council shall designate a successor chief
judge.

108.

(15) (a) There shall be [four] five full-time judges of the People's
Court of Montgomery County. The chief judge of said court shall
receive a salary of $19,500 per year and each of the three associate
judges thereof shall receive a salary of $19,000 per year.

(15) (d) The judges of the People's Court of Montgomery County,
except the People's Court judges for juvenile causes, shall make a
circuit, sitting in Rockville, Bethesda and Silver Spring, as often
and for such periods of time as may be required by the work of the
court; provided that one judge shall sit in Takoma Park at least part
of one day each week for the trial of traffic and criminal cases.

(15) (e) [One] Two of the judges of the People's Court of Mont-
gomery County shall be known as the People's Court judge for
juvenile causes, and shall hear only juvenile causes. [He] They shall
sit at Rockville, and possess such qualifications, and powers, and have