Ch. 461                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1023

CHAPTER 461
(Senate Bill 940)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 2-106(b) and
2-108(c)(l) of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume), title "Decedents' Estates," subtitle "II. The Court,"
subheading "1. The Probate Court," to increase the length of the sessions of the
court in Baltimore City and to provide for salary increases for the chief and
associate judges in Baltimore's probate courts to take effect with the next term
of office.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 2-106(b) and 2-108(c)(l) of Article 93 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title Decedents'
Estates," subtitle "11. The Court," subheading "I. The Probate Court," are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

2-106.

(b) The sessions of the court in Baltimore City shall continue from [11 a.m. to
3 p.m.] 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M., if necessary for the transaction of the business of the
court.

2-108.

(c)(l) Compensation and Pension. The salary of each associate judge of the
court of Baltimore City shall be [fourteen] EIGHTEEN thousand dollars
[($14,000)] ($18,000) per annum, and the salary of the chief judge shall be
(fourteen] EIGHTEEN thousand five hundred dollars [($14,500)] ($18,500) per
annum. Each associate judge shall be paid after the termination of active service, if
he is then at least 60 years of age or when he shall attain 60 years of age, a
pension or salary calculated at the rate of seven hundred dollars ($700) per annum
for each year, or any part thereof, of active service; but the maximum pension or
salary for such service by any associate judge shall not exceed seven thousand
dollars ($7,000) per annum. Each chief judge shall be paid, after the termination of
active service, if he is then at least 60 years of age or when he shall attain 60 years
of age, a pension or salary calculated at the rate of seven hundred twenty-five
dollars ($725) per annum for each year, or any part thereof, of active service, but
the maximum pension or salary for such service by any chief judge, shall not exceed
seven thousand, two hundred fifty dollars ($7,250) per annum. The said pension or
salary shall be paid by the City of Baltimore in the same manner as the salaries of
the judges of the court for said city are paid.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of this Act
shall not be construed to extend or apply to the Chief Judge or Associate Probate
Court Judges of Baltimore in office on the effective date of this Act, but the
provisions of this Act shall take effect with the next term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.