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6.

(b) A claim must be filed by the claimant not later than ninety
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY days after the occurrence of the
crime upon which such claim is based, or not later than ninety
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY days after the death of the victim,
provided, however, that upon good cause shown, the Board may
extend that time for filing for a period not exceeding [one] two
years after such occurrence.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved May 5, 1970

CHAPTER 554
(Senate Bill 396)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 32 of
Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title 'Tensions," subtitle "Transfers Between Re-
tirement Systems," amending the retirement systems laws con-
cerning transfers among systems, with particular respect to the
transfer of accumulated contributions and to the rights of the
transferor thereafter.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 32 of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Pensions," subtitle "Transfers
Between Retirement Systems," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

32.

Any such person desiring so to transfer his membership shall
notify the administrative head of the retirement system of which he
is a member prior to or at the time of his withdrawal therefrom of
his intention to enter the other retirement system, and shall request
a refund of the total amount of the accumulated contributions stand-
ing to his credit in the Annuity Savings Fund, or other correspond-
ing fund, of the system of which he is a member. Upon his entry
into the other retirement system and the deposit of such accumu-
lated contributions in the Annuity Savings Fund or other corre-
sponding fund thereof, within one year of the date of such refund,
he shall receive prior service credit in the system to which he has
transferred for all service rendered prior to January 1, 1926, if
any, provided he was in the service at any time during the calendar
year 1925 and membership service credit for all continuous service
since January 1, 1926. Such membership service credit shall be equal
to the sum of the credits for (1) service credited as prior service
in the system from which he is transferring if such "prior service"
was rendered subsequent to January 1, 1926, and prior to the estab-
lishment of the system from which he is transferring, and (2)
service rendered since January 1, 1926, for which he was entitled to