Marvin Mandel, Governor                         703

RETIREMENT SYSTEM AS IT APPLIES TO JUDGES OF
THE VARIOUS COURTS IN THE STATE AND TO EM-
PLOYEES OF THE COMMISSION REVISING THE CODE
OF STATE LAWS AND TO PROVIDE FOR CREDIT FOR
PRIOR SERVICE BY STAFF MEMBERS OF THE CODE
COMMISSION.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1(3) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Supplement), title "Pensions," subtitle "In General," be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, AND THAT
NEW SECTION 9(10) BE AND IT IS HEREBY ADDED TO THE
SAID ARTICLE AND SUBTITLE OF THE CODE (1970 (RE-
PLACEMENT VOLUME), TO FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY AFTER
SEC. 9(9) THEREOF, AND ALL to read as follows:

1.

(3) "Employee" shall mean any classified or unclassified officer
or employee of the State for whom compensation is provided for
by State appropriation, or whose compensation is paid from State
funds, including all employees of the State Roads Commission,
whether classified or unclassified and whether paid on an annual,
daily or hourly basis, and shall expressly include those engaged in
work on the maintenance of county roads under the supervision of
the State Roads Commission. Provided, however, that all unclassified
persons working for the State Roads Commission or on county roads
under the supervision and control of the State Roads Commission
on an hourly basis who have not been regularly employed in such
work for a period of one year, shall not be eligible for membership
until they have been so regularly employed for a period of one year.
The term "employee" shall include any appointed or elected em-
ployee of the State, and any clerk of any court and register of wills,
and shall include the Sheriff of Baltimore City and the employees
of his office. It shall exclude any person who is a member of or
eligible to membership in the Teachers' Retirement System of the
State of Maryland or of the State Police Pension Fund or [the Judges
Retirement System] any Judge of the Circuit Courts, Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Court of Special
Appeals, and District Courts, and any class of employees whose
compensation is only partly paid by the State. The term "employee"
also shall include any person who was regularly employed by Miners'
Hospital in Frostburg and who was a member of the retirement sys-
tem at the time it was transferred from State ownership, and who
continues in employment at the hospital after the transfer, so long
as all contributions to the retirement system which are required from
both employees and employer are made when and as payable. From
and after the time the hospital is transferred from State ownership,
the State no longer has the responsibility of paying the employer's
share of the contributions. The term "employee" also shall, on and
after June 1, 1961, include any person who is regularly employed by
the State Military Department as a National Guard technician,
although paid by or from federal appropriated funds, provided the
employer's contribution to the retirement system, when and as pay-
able, shall be made by the United States, or otherwise, and provided
the State shall not be responsible for payment of such employer's
contribution. The term "employee" also includes all the several