MONTGOMERY COUNTY                               2105

BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR MONTGOM-
ERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, that—

Section 1. Section 7-14, subsections (a) and (b), Montgomery
County Code (1965 Edition) entitled "Pension of judges and spouses
of deceased judges," be, and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows.

(a)     The County Council for Montgomery County is authorized to
pay to any elected judge of the Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial Circuit
resident in Montgomery County, whose active service is or has been ter-
minated and who is or hereafter becomes entitled to a pension from the
State of Maryland under the provisions of any act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, in addition to any such pension by the State, a pension to
be paid by the County. Such pension shall be calculated at one per centum
(1%) of the net supplementation made by Montgomery County, Maryland
to the salaries of the Circuit Court judges of said County as of May 31,
1968, and said percentage will be multiplied by the number of years or part
of a year of active service, by appointment as well as election, up to a maxi-
mum number of twenty (20) years.

(b)     The County Council is authorized to pay and will pay to any
elected former judge of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, who has served at least 20 years of active service as a judge of the
State of Maryland, and who has retired, and to any judge of the court of
special appeals of Maryland who has served as a judge of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland, in addition to any pension by the
State, a pension calculated at one per centum (1%) of the net supplemen-
tation made by Montgomery County, Maryland, to the salaries of the
Circuit Court judges of said County as of May 31, 1968, multiplied by the
number of years of active service as a judge of the State of Maryland up to a
maximum number of twenty years.

Section 2. This Act shall take effect August 15, 1968.

Chapter 22
(Bill No. 17)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to the Charter of Montgomery
County, Maryland, by substituting in place of the present Charter an
amended Charter to be submitted to the voters of the County at the
General Election on November 5, 1968; the Charter as amended
proposes an Executive Branch under a County Executive in whom
shall be vested the executive power of the County; a Legislative
Branch in which all the legislative powers of the County shall be
vested in a County Council; a County Council composed of seven
members nominated and elected by the voters of the entire County;
a requirement that each of five members of the Council shall, at the
time of his election, reside in a different one of the five Councilmanic
districts of the County; the reestablishment of Councilmanic districts
of the County in 1970, 1972 and every tenth year thereafter; a
legislative procedure for the Council with right of veto by the County
Executive and override by the Council; the submission of legisla