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outside his district on court business, and in multiple-county districts,
for travel incurred in sitting in different counties within the district,
and shall likewise be entitled to an expense account for meals and
lodging when traveling on court business.

(b)    During his term of office, no judge of the District Court shall
practice law, maintain an office for the practice of law, or have any
interest in any such office, whether conducted in whole or in part by
himself or by others. Nor shall any judge allow his name to be used
in connection with any law office or profit directly or indirectly
from the practice of law.

(c)  [(b)] Every judge of the District Court, upon retirement
for any reason, shall be entitled to a pension computed on the same
basis and at the same rates as are applicable to a Circuit Court judge,
and the widow of any District Court judge shall likewise be entitled
to a pension computed on the same basis and at the same rates and
upon the same conditions as are applicable to the widow of a Circuit
Court judge.

(d)  [(c)] In the City of Baltimore and in those counties where
a judge who, prior to the effective date of this subtitle, has acquired
retirement and pension benefits or rights by virtue of city or county
legislation or State legislation applying to a particular local political
subdivision or subdivisions, and which judge continues in office after
the effective date of this subtitle, all pension or retirement benefits
or rights so acquired shall be continued and paid as provided under
the particular legislation creating them; but the judge or his widow,
as the case may be, may elect to receive the State pension as pro-
vided in Subsection (c)[(b)] hereinbefore described, computed on
the basis of years of full-time judicial service at the time of making
the election as well as years of judicial service thereafter, and any
judge who is ineligible to continue in office by reason of the Constitu-
tion or this subtitle, shall not lose any pension or retirement benefits
which he has acquired under any law prior to the first Monday in
July, 1971.

(e)  [(d)] Every judge of the District Court who elects to receive
the pension provided in subsection (c) [(b)] of this section 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 and paid to the State Treasurer. Contributions shall
not be retroactive with respect to those full-time judges already in
office and carried over into the District Court by the provisions of
this subtitle but shall commence for those judges on the effective date
of this subtitle. The election provided for in this subsection must be
exercised within six (6) months of the first Monday in July 1971
provided that any judge who initially does not elect to be under the
pension plan provided for in this subsection SECTION, but later
wishes to do so, must upon such election, pay in a lump sum in addition
to the annual contributions provided for in this subsection, an amount
equal to the contributions he would have made if initially under the
plan for each year after the first Monday in July 1971, plus interest of
four percent (4%). The provisions of subsections (c) [(b)], (d)
[(c)], AND (e) [(d)] of this Section [143] 144 shall apply to the
full-time judges of the People's Courts of Anne Arundel, Prince
George's, Montgomery, Wicomico and Baltimore City and the Munic-
ipal Court of Baltimore City who retired prior to the effective date of
this subtitle.