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(h) Upon the termination of active service of any person who has held the
position of Adjutant General after 1966 [[and not later than 1970]] and who has
been in the military service of the State of Maryland for eight years or more,
[[he]] SUCH PERSON shall be paid, [[if he is then at least fifty-five years of
age or]] when he becomes fifty-five years of age, and for the remainder of his life,
a pension or salary calculated at the rate of eight hundred and fifty dollars ($850)
for each year of active military service for the State of Maryland; but in no event
may the total pension or salary exceed thirteen thousand six hundred dollars
($13,600). Following the [[decease of the]] DEATH OF A former Adjutant
General, whenever it occurred or occurs, his surviving [widow] SPOUSE shall be
paid two thirds of the pension or salary to which the former Adjutant General was
or would have been entitled under this subsection, if [she was] married to him for
not less than the three years immediately prior to his death and, in the case of a
retired Adjutant General, not less than the three years immediately prior to his
retirement; and the [widow] SURVIVING SPOUSE shall be paid for [the period
of her] life unless [she] HE remarries, in which event the payments are to cease.
Any pension or salary paid under the provisions of this subsection shall be in
addition to and shall not affect any benefits paid to the same person from or by
another retirement system operated by this state.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 384
(Senate Bill 329)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19 of Article 73B of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume [[and 1972
Supplement 11), title "Pensions," subtitle "In General," to provide that
restriction against more than one retirement benefit at expense of the State be
applicable to both sexes.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 19 of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume [[and 1972 Supplement 11), title
"Pensions," subtitle "In General," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

19.

No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly
at the expense of the State of Maryland for pensions or retirement benefits for
employees of the State, their [widows,] SURVIVING SPOUSES, or other
dependents, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of the retirement system
established by this article, their [widows] SURVIVING SPOUSES or other
dependents; but this section does not apply to any person with respect to whose
pension or retirement allowance established under other law the State does not
contribute, and it does not apply to the beneficiaries of such a person.

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