1154                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 518

mum pension or salary for such service payable hereunder to any one
person shall not exceed the sum of twelve thousand dollars
($12,000.00) per annum.

(f)    In the case of a judge who [has been elected by the people or
confirmed by the Senate and who] may serve on the Court of Appeals
or on the Court of Special Appeals subsequent or prior to service as
a circuit court judge for any of the counties or of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, the amount of pension per annum shall be calcu-
lated according to the total years of active service not exceeding
sixteen at the pension rate fixed herein. This section shall apply to
all elected judges already retired from active service except as pro-
vided herein. Any former judge who accepts any salaried public
office or position, municipal, county, State or federal, shall not be
paid any pension or salary so long as he remains in such office or
position.

(g)    A judge who [has been elected by the people or confirmed
by the Senate and who] because of incapacitating illness resigns his
position prior to reaching his sixtieth birthday is entitled to benefits
under the provisions of this section immediately upon his resignation,
but in no event in a sum greater than was provided in this section
at the time he resigned; and except for a judge who has resigned or
who resigns because of incapacitating illness, no other judge who
has resigned or who resigns prior to reaching his sixtieth birthday
is entitled to any benefits under the provisions of this section.

(1) (1) On and after July 1, 1969, each judge subject to the pro-
visions of this subtitle and covered by the pension plan provided
for in this subsection shall receive upon termination of active service
if he is then at least sixty years of age or when he becomes sixty
years of age a pension in an amount equal to sixty per centum
(60%) of his maximum salary or one sixteenth (1/16) of that
amount for each year of service, or a pro rata share to reflect less
than a full year of service, if he served for less than sixteen years.

(2)    All judges subject to the provisions of this subtitle who are
in office as of June 30, 1969, may elect to remain under the present
pension plan or to be under the pension plan provided for in this
subsection; provided, any judge who elects to be under the pension
plan provided for in this subsection shall not be able to subsequently
select the pension provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this
section. All judges receiving initial appointments or initially elected
after June 30, 1969, shall be under the pension plan provided for in
this subsection.

(3)    Any judge who does not elect to be paid a pension under
subsections (a), (b) or (c) of this section shall be deemed to have
elected to receive a pension under the provisions of this subsection.

(4)    Each judge electing to be under the pension plan provided
for in this subsection, or who is otherwise under this pension plan,
shall contribute toward the cost of his pension an amount equal to
six per centum (6%) of his annual compensation which shall be
deducted from his compensation each pay period.

Any judge in office as of June 30, 1969, who initially does not elect
to be under the pension plan provided for in this subsection, but who
later wishes to do so must, upon such election, pay in a lump sum,