Ch. 441                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  911

statement to that effect, it shall not be necessary to mail a notice to the address of
the voter, and his registration may be forthwith cancelled as hereinafter provided,
by removing the registration cards or forms of the voter from the original and
duplicate files and placing the same in a transfer file.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 441
(Senate Bill 851)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 149(b) of Article 26 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume, 1971 Supplement
and 1972 Interim Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "District Courts," to
provide corrective legislation confirming that probation agents of certain State
courts have been transferred to the Maryland State Division of Parole and
Probation.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 149(b) of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume, 1971 Supplement and 1972 Interim
Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "District Courts," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

149.

(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, all persons who on July 5, 1971 in the
City of Baltimore or any county were clerical, administrative or constabular
employees and full-time committing magistrates employed by a people's court, the
Municipal Court of Baltimore City, a magistrates court, or the Housing Court of
Baltimore County shall continue as employees of the District Court. A person who
became an employee of the District Court pursuant to this subsection shall be
given credit for prior service with the prior employer for purposes of determining
future annual and sick leave, provided, however, that although the persons shall
otherwise be in the State service, the person shall elect either to remain under any
county, city or municipal leave, retirement, or health system of which they are then
a part, or to transfer to the leave, retirement, or health system of the State;
provided that persons electing to transfer to the Employees' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland under the provisions of § 32A of Article 73B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, shall retain credit for past service if in
an actuarially-funded county, city or municipal retirement system. Any employee
made part of the State classified service shall not be deemed a permanent
employee unless the period of service with his prior governmental employer would
qualify the employee for permanent status if the employee had been serving in the
State service during the period; provided, however, that the prior service shall be
credited against the applicable probationary period required to be served under the
provisions of the Merit System Law. It is further provided that any clerical,
administrative or constabular employee otherwise within the provisions of this
subsection but who was hired, promoted or reclassified by his governmental
employer after January 1, 1971, but prior to July 4, 1971, shall continue as an
employee of the District Court only upon a determination by the chief judge of the
District Court that the employee's continued service in the job classification held