SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1407

The local governing authority in each county and in Baltimore City
is hereby empowered and directed to levy for or appropriate such
funds, from time to time, as may be necessary for this purpose.
The provisions of this subsection are subject to the requirements
of Section 18A of this article.

(d) [(b-1)] Same-Payments to State retirement system; reim-
bursements by State to Baltimore City retirement system.—Each of
the twenty-three local [welfare] departments in the counties shall
pay to the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland[,]
annually an amount equal to twenty per centum (20%) of the total
amount which is required for that year as the State's or employer's
contributions to the retirement system and the system operating
under the provisions of the Social Security Act of the United States
for the employees of each county, respectively; and the contribu-
tions by the State to the retirement system and the system operat-
ing under the provisions of the Social Security Act shall be accord-
ingly reduced. These payments shall be part of the administrative
costs of the local [welfare] departments in the counties to be paid
from funds derived from local sources. If the ratio of administra-
tive costs paid from funds derived from local sources varies from
time to time to a percentage greater or less than twenty per centum
(20%), the payment by the county of a proportion of the contribution
to the retirement system and the system operating under the pro-
visions of the Social Security Act shall be changed accordingly.

In consideration of the membership of the employees of the de-
partment [of public welfare] social services of Baltimore City in
the employees' retirement system of the City of Baltimore, there shall
be included in the State budget each year an appropriation item to
reimburse the mayor and city council of Baltimore in an amount
equal to eighty per centum (80%) of the contribution of the City
of Baltimore for that year to the employees' retirement system of the
City of Baltimore for such positions in Baltimore City; but the
annual reimbursement by the State shall never exceed eighty per
centum (80%) of the amount which would be contributed for that
year by the State to the Employees' Retirement System of the
State of Maryland for such positions if they were included in the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland. If the
ratio of administrative costs paid from State and federal funds
varies from time to time to a percentage greater or less than eighty
per centum (80%), the payment by the State of a proportion of such
expense incurred by the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall
be changed accordingly.

There shall also be included in the State budget each year an
appropriation item to reimburse the mayor and city council of Balti-
more in an amount equal to eighty per centum (80%) of the total
amount of money paid by the mayor and city council of Baltimore
for that year to obtain for the employees of the department of
[public welfare] social services of Baltimore City the full benefits of
the system operating under the provisions of the Social Security
Act. If the ratio of administrative costs paid from State and
federal funds varies from time to time to a percentage greater or
less than eighty per centum (80%), the payment by the State of a
proportion of such expenses paid by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore shall be changed accordingly. The provisions of this sub-
section are subject to the requirements of Section 18A of this article.