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shall be paid comparable salaries in accordance with the relative
value of the services to be performed. In establishing rates of
pay, the [State Employees Standard Salary Board] Secretary
shall give consideration to experience, the prevailing rates of pay
for the services performed, and for comparable services in public
and private employment, living costs, maintenance or other benefits
received by employees, and the State's financial condition and poli-
cies. Such pay plan shall take effect shall have the force and effect of
law after approval by the Governor, at the time the next State
budget takes effect, if funds for such pay plan are provided therein.
Amendments thereto may, from time to time, be recommended by
the [Board] Secretary and when approved by the Governor and so
included in the next State budget shall have the force of law in the
same manner as if they had been originally incorporated in the
schedule. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary hereinbefore,
and solely in cases of acute emergency, amendments may be made
from time to time in the pay plan to take effect at any time prior to
the effective date of the next State budget, if the amendment is
necessary in order to procure or to retain in the State service,
essential career administrative employees, performing executive
functions, or essential professional or technical employees, and upon
approval of the Board of Public Works, after recommendation by
the [Board] Secretary, shall have the force of law, in the same
manner as if they had been originally incorporated in the schedule.
[Wherever the Board shall find that there is an increase in the
market value of services performed by any class, it shall be the duty
of the Commissioner of Personnel to identify and present to the
Board for consideration at the same time all other related classes
which are affected by the same change in market value.] Each em-
ployee in the classified and in the unclassified service shall be paid
at one of the rates set forth in the pay plan for the grade or class of
positions in which he is employed. The pay plan shall be used by the
Governor in the preparation and submission of his budget. Pro-
vided, however, that positions upon the faculties of the University
of Maryland, State colleges and Morgan State College, all registrars
and librarians designated as holding faculty rank by the respective
boards of trustees of the State colleges, St. Mary's Female Seminary,
Morgan State College and University of Maryland, teachers, prin-
cipals, directors of education and supervisors of vocational educa-
tion on the staffs of Boys' Village of Maryland, Maryland Training
School for Boys, Montrose School for Girls, Maryland Children's
Centers, Victor Cullen School, and any and all other institutions
which are under the supervision, direction, control and general
management of the State Department of Public Welfare, but not the
noninstructional personnel of such institutions shall be excluded
from said pay plan [and from the jurisdiction of the State Em-
ployees Standard Salary Board].

(b)    The [said Board] Secretary shall, when necessary, visit the
various State agencies to determine whether or not an employee is
properly classified, whether or not his duties conform with his
classification, and such other information as may be helpful in pre-
paring said pay plan, and to that end the [Board] Secretary may
require any State employee to appear before [it] him and give
evidence.

(c)    The [said State Employees Standard Salary Board] Sec-
rotary SECRETARY is hereby authorized whenever in [its] his