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or contributions are required to be made by it to or
for the account or on behalf of the employee, and the
State shall periodically reimburse the county, city,
or municipality for any of those contributions made.
Payments or contributions made by a county, city, or
municipality to the retirement or group insurance
program of an employee are not deemed salary with
respect to that employee.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This is the substance of Art. 26,
§149(c). It is a transitional provision
which will eventually become obsolete; thus,
it should not be codified.

SECTION 16. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
nothing in this Act affects the term of office of an
appointed member of any board, commission, committee
or other agency or unit. A person who is a member of
such a unit on the effective date of this Act shall
remain a member for the balance of the term to which
he was appointed, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or
is removed pursuant to the provisions of law.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is intended to make
it clear that no board, commission, or
committee affected by the Act is abolished.
Therefore, no terms of members become vacant;
instead, persons in office on the effective
date of the Act remain in office for the
balance of the term. This is consti-
tutionally required, in any event; see Art.
XVI, §2 of the Constitution.

SECTION 17. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
continuity of every department, board, commission,
agency, or other unit affected by this Act, and not
abolished by it, is retained. The personnel, records,
files, furniture and fixtures, and other properties,
and all appropriations, credits, assets, liabilities,
and obligations of each retained unit are continued as
the personnel, records, files, furniture, fixtures,
properties, appropriations, credits, assets,
liabilities, and obligations of the agency under the
laws enacted by §1 of this Act.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This is a general transitional
provision relating to agencies continued in
existence in the new Courts and Judicial
Proceedings Article.

SECTION 18. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That