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ment Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chapter 17:
Teachers' Retirement System," to remove maintenance from the
definition of earnable compensation under the Teachers' Pension
System.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 190 (14) of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chapter
17: Teachers' Retirement System," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

190.

(14) "Earnable Compensation" shall mean the full rate of the
compensation that would be payable to a teacher if he worked the
full normal working time. [In cases where compensation includes
maintenance, the Board of Trustees shall fix the value of that part
of the compensation not paid in money.]

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

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 282
(Senate Bill 433)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 9 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Mode of Issuing—General
Provisions," to provide that certain penalties provided in the li-
censing laws apply to engaging in an unlicensed business and also
apply individually to any officers or agents of a corporation found
guilty of violating these laws.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 9 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Mode of Is-
suing—General Provisions," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

9.

It shall be the duty of the sheriffs and constables of the several
counties and Baltimore City and the agents and inspectors of the
Comptroller to make diligent inquiry of all persons, firms and cor-
porations doing business in this State, and apprehend and cause
the arrest of all persons, firms and corporations found doing busi-
ness without a license, as may be required by law, to answer the
charge of selling goods without a license. Any person, firm or corpora-
tion [selling goods] engaging in business without a license as re-
quired by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $100 or imprisoned for not
more than thirty days; the penalty herein prescribed not to affect