1234                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 578

CHAPTER 578
(House Bill 985)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3(6)
of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replace-
ment Volume) title "Pensions," subtitle "In General," and to repeal
and re-enact, with amendments, Section 192(7) of Article 77 of
said Code (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Education,"
subtitle "Chapter 17. Teachers' Retirement System," and to repeal
and re-enact, with amendments, Section 51(4) of Article 88B of
said Code (1969 Replacement Volume), title "State Police," subtitle
"State Police Retirement System," providing for former members
of the Maryland State Police Retirement System to reenter the
retirement system, providing for former members of the Em-
ployees', Teachers', or State Police Retirement Systems to enter any
of the other two systems, and relating generally to the laws con-
cerning termination, reentry, and entry of members into the
Employees', Teachers' and State Police Retirement Systems.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3(6) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1970 Replacement Volume) title "Pensions," subtitle "In General,"
and that Section 192(7) of Article 77 of said Code (1969 Replacement
Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chapter 17. Teachers'
Retirement System," and that Section 51(4) of Article 88B of said
Code (1969 Replacement Volume), title "State Police," subtitle "State
Police Retirement System," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 73B
3.

(6) Should any member in any period of six consecutive years
after last becoming a member be absent from service more than two
years, or should he withdraw all or part of his accumulated contribu-
tions, or should fee HE become a beneficiary or die, he shall thereupon
cease to be a member; provided, however, that any member who was
absent from service for more than two years on account of the trans-
fer or lease to the United States of the facility or property where said
member was employed and who continued to work at the same place
as an employee of the United States until the return of the property
to the State after the war, when he again became an employee of the
State, shall be entitled to credit for all service as an employee of the
State before he became an employee of the United States as herein-
before described and his prior service certificate shall again become
effective as if he had not ceased to be an employee of the State. How-
ever, any such person who has withdrawn his accumulated contri-
butions (other than one who has become a beneficiary or died) may
subsequently redeposit in the retirement system the amount of ac-
cumulated contributions previously withdrawn, with interest to the
date of redeposit, and regain previous service credit with the condi-
tion, however, that he may not retire within three years after the
date of reentry in the retirement system.

Any member who had terminated membership in the Teachers'
Retirement System or the State Police Retirement System may and