MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2097

may only be given to members who were teachers when
entering military service;]] providing for military
service credit, not to exceed five years, to any
member of [[a]] the retirement [[system]] systems of
the State [[or any subdivision,]] after ten years of
creditable service, subject to certain conditions,
to be funded by the State or other governmental
employing agency; and precluding credit to members
who have received military service credit under
another retirement system, for which benefits have
been or will be received; and clarifying the
language.

[[BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 77 — Public Education

Section 194(2)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)]]

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 65 - Militia

Section 88

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section [[194(2) of Article 77 - Public
Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education
194.

(2) The board of trustees shall fix and determine
by appropriate rules and regulations how much service in
any year is equivalent to one year of service, but except
as otherwise provided, in no case shall more than one
year of service be creditable for all service in one
calendar year. The board of trustees, under [such] THE
rules and regulations [as] it shall adopt, shall allow
credit, however, to members absent in the military
service during World War I or within the periods and
under the provisions specified in § 88 of Article 65 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition as amended),
for the period of their absence [, provided that such
members were teachers when they entered such military