SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1319

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, however, that any such judge who has retired or who here-
after 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 of Prince
George's County of such fact, then, from and after the date of
such notification the judge shall be entitled to all of 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 inter-
nal 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 Commis-
sioners 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 provisions
heretofore made is hereby ratified and confirmed.

(g) The widow of every full-time judge who dies in active serv-
ice 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 sixty-five 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 re-
marries, 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.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.