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such officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk or turnkey for a
term not to exceed three months for the first offense; for the second
offense, for a term not to exceed six months, and for the third offense,
any officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk or turnkey shall be
subject to dismissal upon proof given that the said officer of police,
policeman, detective, clerk or turnkey is or has been, in the judg-
ment of the said Commissioner, living an improper or immoral life.
Provided, however, that the provisions of this section with reference
to the retirement of officers of police, policemen, detectives, clerks
and turnkeys after service of not less than twenty years shall not
apply to officers of police, policemen, detectives, clerks and turnkeys
now on the force or in the employ of the Police Department, but
only to such as may hereafter be appointed, and that all officers of
police, policemen, detectives, clerks and turnkeys now on the force
or in the employ of the Police Department may be retired after
faithful service for sixteen years in the same manner as before the
passage of this Act.]

560.

The Police Commissioner of the City of Baltimore is empowered
whenever in his judgment the efficiency of the service may require
it, to retire any officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk or turn-
key appointed by him who may be ineligible in the way of length of
service to retirement on pay for life under [the requirements of
Section 559 of this subdivision of this Article,] existing pension
systems but who has served faithfully and become permanently
incapacitated for active duty and to pay such officer of police, police-
man, detective, clerk or turnkey [retired as in this section provided,
out of the fund in his hands known and accounted for as the Special
Fund], as provided for from funds set forth in the regular budget of
the Department, a sum of money not to exceed one year's salary
allowed to him by law at the time of his said retirement, provided
the said Commissioner shall in all cases before making such retire-
ment procure and file among his records a certificate of a majority
of the police physicians of Baltimore City that the person proposed
to be retired has been thoroughly examined by them, and that he is
incapable of performing active duty.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 302
(House Bill 422)

AN ACT to repeal Section 584 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Baltimore City (1949 Edition, being Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Baltimore City," subtitle
"Police Department," subheading "Special Fund," as said section
was last amended by Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1965, repealing
an unnecessary local law concerning the sale and disposition of
certain motor vehicles or parts thereof in the custody of the
Police Department of Baltimore City.