Ch. 545                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1183

to stand in the place of the subtitle so repealed; to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 125(1) of the same Article, Code and title, subtitle
"Municipal Court of Baltimore City,"; to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Sections 144(c) and 160 of the same Article, Code and title,
subtitle "District Courts," to eliminate references to a particular sex and to add
a new subtitle to the Article and to correct language.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 49(i), 50, 50A, and 50C of Article 26 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume, 1971 Supplement, and
1972 Interim Supplement), title "Courts," be and they are hereby repeated and
re-enacted, with amendments, and that the subtitle "Pensions of Judges and Their
Widows" be and it is hereby repealed and new subtitle "Pensions of Judges and
Their Surviving Spouses" be and it is enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place
of the subtitle so repealed; that Section 125(1) of the same Article, Code and title,
subtitle "Municipal Court of Baltimore City," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments; that Sections 144(c) and 160 of the same Article,
Code and title, subtitle "District Courts," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, all to read as follows:

PENSIONS OF JUDGES AND THEIR SURVIVING SPOUSES

49.

(i)(l) On and after July 1, 1969, each judge subject to the provisions of this
subtitle and covered by the pension plan provided for in this subsection shall
receive upon termination of active service if he is then at least sixty years of age or
when he becomes sixty years of age a pension in an amount equal to sixty per
centum (60%) of his maximum salary or one sixteenth (1/16) of that amount for
each year of service, or a pro rata share to reflect less than a full year of service, if
he served for less than sixteen years.

(2)  All judges subject to the provisions of this subtitle who are in office as of
June 30, 1969, may elect to remain under the present pension plan or to be under
the pension plan provided for in this subsection; provided, any judge who elects to
be under the pension plan provided for in this subsection shall not be able to
subsequently select the pension provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this
section. All judges receiving initial appointments or initially elected after June 30,
1969, shall be under the pension plan provided for in this subsection.

(3)  Any judge who does not elect to be paid a pension under subsections (a), (b)
or (c) of this section shall be deemed to have elected to receive a pension under the
provisions of this subsection.

(4)   Each judge electing to be under the pension plan provided for in this
subsection, 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.

Any judge in office as of June 30, 1969, who initially does not elect to be under
the pension plan provided for in this subsection, but who 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 June 30, 1969,
plus interest of four percent (4%).