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amount to the retirement system or to place it in the next ensuing
budget for prompt payment when that budget becomes effective.
The board of trustees is authorized and directed to include any
amount due from the State in the appropriation allowed by the next
ensuing State budget.

Any such official who receives membership service credit for serv-
ice rendered to the State or to a participating municipal corporation
under the provisions of this subsection shall pay to the retirement
system by single payment, within such period of time as may be
determined by the board of trustees, the contributions, with interest,
which he would have paid had he been a member of the retirement
system but withdrew. Provided, however, that any such member may
waive the payment of any or all such contributions, in which case
upon retirement any ordinary disability retirement allowance or any
allowance due to nonreappointment or nonreelection to any office
payable to such official, shall be reduced by the actuarial equivalent
of those contributions which he had not paid, with interest to date
of retirement.

The total retirement allowance that would have been payable to
the beneficiary had he not waived his contributions shall be used as
the basis for the determination of any supplemental payment under
the provisions of Section 14 (7) of this article.

Provided further that any desk officer or employee of either house
of the General Assembly, who was receiving an annual salary as
compensation for such employment as of February 1, 1961, and who
previously served as a desk officer or employee of either house of the
General Assembly and received per diem compensation for such
previous service, shall be entitled to prior service credit equal to
four years for any four-year term of a General Assembly during
which such previous service was rendered.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, any member
of the retirement system who had previously served as an elected or
appointed official shall be entitled to receive credit for the period of
such prior service upon making in a single payment, within such
period of time as may be determined by the board of trustees, the
contributions, with interest, which he would have paid on behalf of
such service.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved April 29, 1971

CHAPTER 230
(Senate Bill 281)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 124 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Supplement),
title "Health," subtitle "Practitioners of Medicine," providing that