Ch. 219                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 581

Approved May 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 219
(Senate Bill 330)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 2-108(b) and (c) of
Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and
1972 Supplement), title "Decedents' Estates," subtitle "II. The Court,"
subheading "Part 1. The Probate Court," to eliminate references to a particular
sex and to correct language.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 2-108(b) and (c) of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title
"Decedents' Estates," subtitle "II. The Court," subheading "Part 1. The Probate
Court," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

2-108.

(b)   The salary of the judges of the court for Anne Arundel County shall be two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per annum, and the chief judge shall
receive an additional five hundred dollars ($500) per annum. Each judge shall also
receive an expense allowance, in addition, up to one hundred ($100) dollars per
month for personal expenses incidental to his duties, to be paid by the comptroller
of Anne Arundel County each month upon presentation of an itemized voucher in
accordance with regulations prescribed by [said] THE comptroller.

(c)  (1) The salary of each associate judge of the court for Baltimore City shall
be fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) per annum, and the salary of the chief judge
shall be fourteen thousand five hundred dollars ($14,500) 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]
THE 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] THE city are paid.

(2) The [widow] SPOUSE of every elected judge of the court for Baltimore
City shall be paid one half of the pension to which [he] HIS [husband]
SPOUSE was entitled at the time of his death, or would have become entitled to
by reason of attaining sixty years of age or retirement after attaining sixty years of
age. In each instance, the pension shall be paid to the [widow] SPOUSE until
[her] HIS remarriage or death. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply in
the case of a [widow] SPOUSE who was married to a sitting judge for a period of
less than three years prior to his death, and to a retired judge for a period less
than three years before his retirement.