MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2041

re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 73B — Pensions
1.

(3) "Employee11 shall mean any regular classified or
unclassified officer or employee of the State for whom
compensation is provided for by State appropriation, or
whose compensation is paid from State funds, including
all regular employees of the State Highway
Administration, whether classified or unclassified and
whether paid on an annual, daily or hourly basis, and
shall expressly include those engaged in work on the
maintenance of county roads under the supervision of the
State Highway Administration. The term "employee" shall
include any appointed or elected employee of the State,
and any clerk of any court and register of wills, and
shall include the Sheriff of Baltimore City and the
employees of his office. It shall exclude any person who
is a member of or eligible to membership in the Teachers'
Retirement System of the State of Maryland or of the
State Police Pension Fund or any judge of the circuit
[court] COURTS, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Court of
Appeals of Maryland, Court of Special Appeals, and
District Courts, and any class of employees whoso
compensation is only partly paid by the State or who are
serving on a temporary basis. The term "employee" also
shall include any person who was regularly employed by
Miners' Hospital in Frostburg and who was a member of the
retirement system at the time it was transferred from
State ownership, and who continues in employment at the
hospital after the transfer, so long as all contributions
to the retirement system which are required from both
employees and employer are made when and as payable.
From and after the time the hospital is transferred from
State ownership, the State no longer has the
responsibility of paying the employer's share of the
contributions. The term "employee"1 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