1202                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 560

CHAPTER 560
(House Bill 629)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 125(a), (h), and (1),
[[150(b),]] and 150A(b) of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Replacement Volume, 1971 Supplement and 1972 Interim Supplement),
title "Courts," subtitles, respectively, "Municipal Court of Baltimore City," and
"District Courts," to correct certain errors in the laws relating to the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City and the District Courts.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Sections 125(a), (h), and (1), [[150(b),]] and 150A(b) of
Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume, 1971
Supplement and 1972 Interim Supplement), title "Courts," subtitles, respectively,
"Municipal Court of Baltimore City," and "District Courts," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

125.

(a) Every judge of the Municipal Court of Baltimore City who is retired from
active service or is in office on June [3] 30, 1970, and every appointed judge in
office on June 30, 1970, if subsequently elected, including a judge who was
continued in office as a judge of the District Court pursuant to Article IV, § 41-I
(g) of the Constitution, may elect Plan A and thereby be paid, after the
termination of his active service, if he is then at least sixty years of age or when he
becomes sixty years of age, a pension or salary calculated at the rate of six
hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum for each year or any part thereof of active
service as a judge of said Municipal Court, and of the District Court, up to and
including twenty years of such active service, so that a maximum pension or salary
for such service payable hereunder to any one person shall not exceed the. sum of
twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00) per annum.

(h) Any former judge who accepts any salaried public office or position,
municipal, county, State or federal shall not be paid any pension or salary so long
as he remains in any such office or position. Upon retirement from the other
salaried public office or position, the former judge is eligible to receive benefits
from all public-supported retirement systems in which he participated, but he may
not receive benefits under more than one pension system for the same period of
service.

(1) The widow of every judge described in subsection (a) of this section who dies
in active service shall be paid one half of the pension or salary the judge would
have received if his service had been terminated by retirement and for this purpose
only, the age of the judge is not to be considered; the widow of any judge eligible
for retirement pension who dies after retiring shall be paid one half of the pension
or salary to which her husband was entitled at the time of his death. In
determining the amount which any widow is entitled to be paid after June 1, 1963,
the pension of the deceased judge shall be calculated at the rates prescribed by
[sub-subsection (1)] SUBSECTION (A) of this [subsection,] SECTION, as of
that date, notwithstanding that such judge may have died prior thereto. In each
instance the pension is to be paid to the widow until her remarriage or death. The
provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of a widow who was married
to the judge for a period less than three years and to a retired judge for a period
less than three years before his retirement.