Ch. 368                            MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  819

temporary employment shall not be in a regularly allocated position and shall not
in any consecutive twelve (12) month period be in excess of six (6) months of
full-time employment or its equivalence in part-time employment. THE ANNUAL
EARNINGS OF A SERVICE PENSIONER SHALL BE DETERMINED BY
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE, AT
THE TIME OF HIS RETIREMENT, AND HIS AVERAGE FINAL
COMPENSATION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 368

(Senate Bill 229)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 21 (1) of Article 73B
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Supplement), title "Pensions,"
subtitle "Employees of Municipal Corporations," to permit employees of the
Tri-County Council for Western Maryland, Inc. to [ [become retroactively
eligible for participation in the Maryland Employees' Retirement System; and
clarifying the wording of this section.]] participate in the Maryland Employees'
Retirement System.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 21 (1) of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Supplement), title "Pensions," subtitle "Employees of Municipal
Corporations," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

21.

(1) "Municipal corporation" means county, incorporated town or municipality
or special taxing area or other political subdivision of the State, including any
public library association or organization and any fire department receiving part or
all of its funds from or through any such county, town, municipality, special taxing
area or other political subdivision of the State, and also including any board or
commission created by an act of the General Assembly for public purpose and not
for the profit of any private person or corporation. The Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin, a cooperative library corporation, [and] the Upper
Potomac River Commission AND THE TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR
WESTERN MARYLAND, INC. shall EACH be considered to be a municipal
corporation for the purpose of participation in the Employees' Retirement System.
If a municipal corporation ceases to meet the definition of "municipal
corporation" by virtue of any public general or public local law, any employee
thereof who has been a member of the retirement system may continue
membership in the system at the employee's election if the employer's contribution,
as required herein, continues to be made pursuant to this article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.