1044                             Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 458

WHICH MAY BE PAYABLE TO SUCH MEMBER UNDER ANY
RETIREMENT SYSTEM SUPPORTED WHOLLY OR IN PART
BY THE STATE, OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE SUCH MEMBER
MAY AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO HIS RETIREMENT TRANSFER
HIS CREDIT FOR SERVICE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO ANY OTHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM, SUPPORTED
WHOLLY OR IN PART BY THE STATE, OF WHICH HE IS OR
MAY BECOME A MEMBER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
SUBSECTION, "SERVICE" SHALL MEAN SERVICE AS AN
ELECTED OR APPOINTED MEMBER OF THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY AND "YEAR OF SERVICE" SHALL MEAN A YEAR
OR ANY FRACTION THEREOF DURING WHICH A MEMBER
SERVES IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR WHICH HE.
MAKES CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THIS SUBSECTION, AND
SHALL ALSO INCLUDE ALL OR PART OF SUCH SERVICE
RENDERED PRIOR TO HIS COMMENCEMENT OF CONTRI-
BUTIONS HEREUNDER BUT NOT PRIOR TO JULY 1, 1966,
PROVIDED HE HAS CONTRIBUTED ALL AMOUNTS (WITH
INTEREST THEREON) HE WAS ELIGIBLE TO CONTRIBUTE
HEREUNDER WITH RESPECT TO SUCH SERVICE. SERVICE
RENDERED PRIOR TO JULY 1, 1966, SHALL ALSO BE
CREDITED HEREUNDER PROVIDED THAT THE MEMBER
SHALL HAVE MADE OR MAKES UP THE CONTRIBUTIONS
(WITH INTEREST THERON TO DATE OF PAYMENT) WHICH
HE WOULD HAVE PAID HAD HE BEEN A MEMBER OF THE
EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM DURING SUCH SERV-
ICE BUT WITHDREW FROM THE SYSTEM AS OF JUNE 30,
1966.

(A) SERVICE RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. ANY SUCH
MEMBER WHO HAS COMPLETED SIXTEEN YEARS OF
SERVICE OR HAS ATTAINED THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE (55)
AND HAS COMPLETED EIGHT (8) YEARS OF SERVICE MAY
RETIRE AND RECEIVE A RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE
WHICH SHALL BE EQUAL TO ONE TWENTIETH (1/20) OF
HIS [LAST] HIGHEST ANNUAL EARNABLE COMPENSATION
MULTIPLIED BY THE NUMBER OF YEARS OF HIS SERVICE
NOT IN EXCESS OF TWENTY (20) YEARS.

Article 77.
195.

(5) Once each year during the first five years following retire-
ment of a member on a disability retirement allowance, and once in
every three-year period thereafter, the board of trustees may, and
upon his application shall, require any disability beneficiary who has
not yet attained age 60 to undergo a medical examination, such
examination to be made at the place of residence of said beneficiary
or other place mutually agreed upon, by a physician or physicians
designated by the board of trustees. Should any disability beneficiary
who has not yet attained the age of 60 refuse to submit to at least one
medical examination in any such year by a physician or physicians
designated by the board of trustees, his allowance may be dis-
continued until his withdrawal of such refusal, and should his
refusal continue for one year, all his rights in and to his pension
may be revoked by the board of trustees.