2066                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

judge of the Court of Appeals elected by the qualified voters of the Second
Appellate Judicial Circuit and every judge of the Court of Special Appeals
elected by the qualified voters of the Third Special Appellate Judicial
Circuit, who resides in Baltimore County, and whose active service is
terminated, if he is then at least sixty years of age or when he becomes
sixty years of age, shall be paid a pension for life by Baltimore County,
Maryland, calculated at the rate of $375.00 per annum in addition to the
pension received from the State under State law, for each year of active
service as such judge, or any part thereof, by appointment as well as by
election, up to and including sixteen years of such active service, it being
intended that the maximum amount payable to any one person under
this Act shall not exceed the sum of $6,000.00 per annum. Any judge
who engages in the practice of law at any time after becoming eligible
for the pension provided in this Act, whether or not he elects to receive it,
shall not at any time thereafter, whether or not he remains so engaged,
be eligible for the pension herein provided. An elected judge who because
of incapacitating illness is required to resign his position prior to reach-
ing his sixtieth birthday is eligible at the time of such resignation for
the pension provided in this Act, calculated upon the number of years,
or any part thereof, of active service prior to such resignation. Except
for a judge who resigned prior to the effective date of this Act, or who
resigns because of incapacitating illness, no other judge who resigns prior
to reaching his sixtieth birthday is entitled to any pension under the
provisions of this Act.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect forty-five days after its enactment.

READ AND PASSED this 6th day of January, 1969.

By Order:

Herbert Hohenberger, Secretary

PRESENTED to the County Executive, for his approval this 8th
day of January, 1969.

Herbert Hohenberger, Secretary
APPROVED AND ENACTED: January 9, 1969.

Dale Anderson,
County Executive

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT BILL NO. 146 IS TRUE AND COR-
RECT AND WILL TAKE EFFECT ON FEBRUARY 23, 1969.

Harry J. Bartenfelder,
Chairman, County Council