Marvin Mandel, Governor                         707

of Employment Service shall be resumed, without loss of creditable
service which had accrued up to January 1, 1942. Any person who,
under the aforegoing provision, is restored to active membership in
the said system, shall receive credit for membership service for the
period during which the personnel of the Division of Employment
Service was taken over by the United States employment service;
provided that, within such time or times after return to the State
service as the board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System
of Maryland may by rule provide, such employee makes up the con-
tributions which would have been paid by the employee if such
employee had remained continuously in the State service; and pro-
vided further that such contribution as shall be determined by the
board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of the State
of Maryland is made to the Employees' Retirement System of the
State of Maryland to cover the employer's liability for such period by
transfer to the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Mary-
land of contributions made by the United States to any retirement
system of which the employee was a member during the period of
employment by the United States, or otherwise, or by the State of
Maryland, on such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the
board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of the State
of Maryland. Any former employee who is eligible for reinstatement
in the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland, under
the other provisions of this section, but who withdrew his accumulated
contributions after the Division of Employment Service was taken
over by the United States employment service, shall be restored to
active membership in the Employees' Retirement System of the State
of Maryland, upon paying to said system the total amount of con-
tributions withdrawn plus interest at the rate of four per cent (4%)
per annum from the date of withdrawal to the date or dates on which
such contributions are repaid, provided the total amount of such
contributions, with interest, are repaid within such period of time
as the board of trustees of the Maryland Employees' Retirement
System may provide. Such board of trustees is specifically hereby
authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out all the pro-
visions of this section.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That new Section 9(10) be and
it is hereby added to Article 73B of said Code (1970 Replacement
Volume), title "Pensions," subtitle "In General," to follow imme-
diately after Section 9(9) thereof, and to read as follows:

9.

(10) Any person who was in the employ of the Division of Em-
ployment Service while the Service and its personnel were under the
control of the United States Employment Service shall receive retire-
ment credit in the Employees' Retirement System of the State of
Maryland upon payment of his share of contributions for the period
of his Federal service, together with interest to date of payment.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 5, 1972.