396                                 Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 124

annum, and the chief judge shall receive an additional five hundred
dollars ($500) per annum. Each judge shall also receive an expense
allowance, in addition, up to seventy five ONE HUNDRED ($100)
dollars ($75.00) per month for personal expenses incidental to his
duties, to be paid by the Comptroller of Anne Arundel County each
month upon presentation of an itemized voucher in accordance with
regulations prescribed by said Comptroller.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 124
(House Bill 231)

AN ACT to add new paragraph (13) to subsection (e) of Section 82
of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Work, Labor and Em-
ployment," subtitle "Wage and Hour Law," to follow immediately
after paragraph (12) thereof, to exempt all nonadministrative per-
sonnel of organized camps from the minimum wage compensation
laws of the State of Maryland.

Whereas, The values of organized camping to our society, to the
individual camper, and the individual camping leader have been
amply demonstrated since about 1885; and

Whereas, It is desirable to maintain a high quality of camping
experiences; and

Whereas, It is desirable that this camping experience be available
to the public at large, and not an elite few; and

Whereas, The present wage hour law considers all nonadministra-
tive personnel of organized camps (and especially counselors) as be-
ing on the job whenever they are on the premises whether it be day or
night and that this will constitute working it becomes impossible for
camps to pay on the basis of the present interpretation of the law; and

Whereas, It is felt that the present State of Maryland Wage and
Hour Law, if literally applied, could force most, if not all, of the
organized camps located in the State of Maryland to close up and go
out of business due to prohibitive labor costs; and

Whereas, There is precedent for the following proposed exemption
in other States of the Union; now, therefore,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new paragraph (13) be and it is hereby added to subsection (e)
of Section 82 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964