MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             2423

board of the respective local department in the counties
and to the local commission of the local department in
Baltimore City.

All local directors shall have such other
responsibilities as may from time to time be required of
them by the State Department or by other applicable laws,
rules and regulations.

[(c)] (D) Administrative costs of the local
departments for the purpose of this section shall be paid
out of funds derived from local sources or out of
allotments from State or federal funds, or any of them,
as the State Department may prescribe. The local
governing authority in each county and in Baltimore City
is hereby empowered and directed to levy for or
appropriate such funds, from time to time, as may be
necessary for this purpose. The provisions of this
subsection are subject to the requirements of § 18A of
this article.

[(d)] (E) Each of the twenty—three local
departments in the counties AND THE BALTIMORE CITY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES shall pay to the Employees'
Retirement System of the State of Maryland annually an
amount equal to twenty per centum (2055) of the total
amount which is required for that year as the State's or
employer's contributions to the retirement system and the
system operating under the provisions of the Social
Security Act of the United States for the employees of
each county, respectively; and the contributions by the
State to the retirement system and the system operating
under the provisions of the Social Security Act shall be
accordingly reduced. These payments shall be part of
the administrative costs of the local departments in the
counties to be paid from funds derived from local
sources. If the ratio of administrative costs paid from
funds derived from local sources varies from time to time
to a percentage greater or less than twenty per centum
(20%), the payment by the county of a proportion of the
contribution to the retirement system and the system
operating under the provisions of the Social Security Act
shall be changed accordingly.

[(d—1)(F) In consideration of the membership of
the employees of the department of social services of
Baltimore City in the employees' retirement system of the
City of Baltimore, there shall be included in the State
budget each year an appropriation item to reimburse the
mayor and city council of Baltimore in an amount equal to
eighty per centum (80%) of the contribution of the City
of Baltimore for that year to the employees' retirement
system of the City of Baltimore for such positions in
Baltimore City; but the annual reimbursement by the State