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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1970.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 506
(House Bill 1084)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 33 of
Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Merit System," reducing the probationary
period of classified State employees, and to correct an error there-
in.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 33 of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Merit System," be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
lows:

33.

An employee may be permanently separated from the classified
service through resignation, rejection on probation or removal, and
may be temporarily separated through layoff, suspension or leave
of absence.

The Commissioner shall by rule prescribe what shall constitute
resignation.

The appointing authority may at any time before the expiration
of the probation period reject any person appointed to a position
in his department upon statement in writing to the Commissioner
of the cause for rejection; the probation period shall be for a period
not exceeding [six months] 90 days, except for positions higher
than the pay scale numbered 7 on January 1, 1967, in which posi-
tions the probation period shall be for a period not exceeding six
months, unless the appointing authority shall suggest and the
Commissioner shall approve a longer period, which [in no event
shall] shall in no event under any circumstances, including changes
of job classifications, exceed [one year] six months, except for
positions higher than the pay scale numbered 12 on January 1, 1967,
in which positions the period of probation shall not exceed one year,
provided that no appointing authority shall have power to remove
a probationer who has been appointed by promotion from another
class without the consent of the Commissioner. The employee so
rejected shall be considered permanently separated from such posi-
tion, but Commissioner may keep the name of the person thus re-
jected on the eligible list from which he was appointed for future
certification to another position in the class to which the list applies.

No employee who has completed his probation may be perma-
nently removed from the classified service except for cause, upon
written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own
defense. Such charges may be filed by the appointing authority