28                                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                                  [ Ch. 2

disposition of certain District Court
fines. The only other changes made are in
style.

SUBTITLE 7. JUDICIAL SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES.

SEC. 1-701. COMPENSATION NOT TO BE DIMINISHED DURING
TERM.

A JUDGE'S SALARY MAY NOT BE DIMINISHED DURING HIS
CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE.

REVISOR'S NOTE; Constitutional provisions
utilizing substantially this language are
found in Art. IV, §14 (Court of Appeals);
Sec. 24 (circuit courts of the counties);
Sec. 31 (Supreme Bench); and § 41H
(District Court). There is apparently no
similar express constitutional provision
pertaining to the Court of Special Appeals.
Art. III, §35 ("..- nor shall the salary or
compensation of any public officer be
increased or diminished during his term of
office") apparently does not apply to
judges, since it bars increases as well as
decreases. Art. III, §52(6) does prohibit
decreasing "the salary or compensation of
any public officer" during his term. Code
Art. 26, §130 does contain an express
provision with respect to the Court of
Special Appeals.

SEC. 1-702. JUDICIAL SALARIES ESTABLISHED.

(A)   SALARIES IN GENERAL.

SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF §1-701, A JUDGE
SHALL HAVE THE SALARY PROVIDED IN THE STATE BUDGET.

(B)   CHIEF JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT.

THE CHIEF JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT, DURING THE
PERIOD HE SERVES AS CHIEF JUDGE, SHALL HAVE A SALARY
EQUIVALENT TO THE ANNUAL SALARY THEN PAYABLE TO AN
ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Subsection (a) is based on the
first four lines of Art. 26, §47(a), as
enacted by Ch. 343, Acts of 1972. The
enumeration of courts contained in §47 (a)
is unnecessary because of the definition of