1324                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 629

6-I 6H. Payments Not To Be Considered As Income.

No payment received under this title shall be considered as income
for the purposes of Sections 279-323A of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on July 1, 1971, provided, however, that payments determined to be
due to persons entitled thereto under the provisions of Section 6B
and 6D, 6D AND 6E shall be retroactive to January 2, 1971.

Approved May 24, 1971.

CHAPTER 629

(Senate Bill 440)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, subsections (a)
and (c) of Section 76 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1970 Cumulative Sup-
plement), title "Work, Labor and Employment," subtitle "State
Employees," and to add new subsection (d) to Section 76 of said
Article, to follow immediately after subsection (c) thereof; to
permit limited overtime compensation to be paid to law enforce-
ment personnel of the Maryland State Police AND OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES and of the Depart-
ment of Natural Resources under certain circumstances, and to
define those circumstances and limits.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsections (a) and (c) of Section 76 of Article 100 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1970
Cumulative Supplement), title "Work, Labor and Employment," sub-
title "State Employees," be and they are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, and that new subsection (d) be and it is
hereby added to Section 76 of said Article, to follow immediately
after subsection (c) thereof, and all to read as follows:

76.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every State
employee who works in excess of the normal work week for his
department, bureau, board, commission or agency shall receive extra
compensation for such hours worked in excess of that time. The
amount of compensation for such excess hours shall be computed
in the following manner:

(1)  Any work performed in excess of the department's normal
work week but not in excess of forty (40) hours shall be computed
by dividing the weekly compensation by the number of hours in the
normal work week and multiplying the resulting quotient by the
number of hours worked in excess of the normal work week.

(2)  Any work performed in excess of forty (40) hours per week
(except fifty (50) hours for law-enforcement personnel of the Mary-