1588                                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [Ch. 392

State ownership, the State no longer has the
responsibility of paying the employer's share of the
contributions. The term "employee" also shall, on and
after June 1, 1961, include any person who is regularly
employed by the State Military Department as a National
Guard technician, although paid by or from federal
appropriated funds, provided the employer's contribution
to the retirement system, when and as payable, shall be
made by the United States, or otherwise, and provided the
State shall not be responsible for payment of such
employer's contribution. The term "employee" also
includes all the several classes of assessors, including
supervisors and assistants, for whom the State pays a
portion of annual salary under the provisions of the
subtitle "state Department of Assessments and Taxation"
in Article 81 of this Code; but the term "employee" does
not include any such assessor who is a member of a
retirement or pension system operated by a political
subdivision of this State. The term "employee" also
includes regular and full—time staff members of the
Commission to Revise the Annotated Code and of any
successor agency or agencies. In all cases of doubt, the
board of trustees, provided for in § [11] 12 of this
article, shall determine whether any person is an
employee as defined in this article, irrespective of the
method of payment. The term "employee" also includes
those "contractual service" employees of the Maryland
Racing Commission who receive salary payments from the
state subject to reimbursement to the State by licenses
of the Racing Commission under Article 78B of the Code,
provided that the employer's contribution to the
retirement system, when and as payable, shall be made by
the Maryland Racing Commission, and provided that the
State is not responsible for payment of the employer's
contribution.

(5)    "Board of trustees" shall mean the board
provided for in § [11] 12 of this article to administer
the retirement system.

(6)    "Medical board" shall mean the board of
physicians provided for in § [11] 12 of this article.]]

2.

A retirement system is hereby established and placed
under the management of the board of trustees for the
purpose of providing retirement allowances and other
benefits under the provisions of this article, for
employees of the State of Maryland. The retirement
system so created shall be established as of October
first, nineteen hundred and forty—one, and it shall be
part of the Department of Personnel. It shall have the
powers and privileges of a corporation, and shall be