2762                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 828

AN ACT concerning

Friendship International Airport Loan of 1972

FOR the purpose of providing for the continuation of
fire—rescue service protection at
Baltimore—Washington International Airport in the
same fashion as has historically been followed,
notwithstanding the termination of labor agreements
requiring those schedules and notwithstanding State
Personnel Rules.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1972
Section 12

(As amended by Section 1 of Chapter 484
of the Acts of 1973)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 12 of Chapter 180 of the Acts of
1972 (As amended by Section 1 of Chapter 484 of the Acts
of 1973), be and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

Chapter 180
12.

That as of the date of transfer of title to the land
and improvements comprising Friendship International
Airport to the State of Maryland, all full—time employees
of the Friendship International Airport Authority who
have been for a period of six (6) months or more
immediately preceding said transfer of title, regularly
employed by the Authority at the Airport shall be
transferred with no diminution of salary to the
employment of the State of Maryland, with full credit for
all purposes for prior years service with the City of
Baltimore and the Friendship International Airport
Authority and the State of Maryland and with no reduction
in retirement or other benefits or allowances earned and
accrued by such employee through prior State service,
notwithstanding the provisions of Section 53 of Article
88B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, without further
examination or qualification and shall be subject
generally to the provisions of Article 64A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland; provided further, that any
agreements between the Authority and any labor group
representative of employees at the Airport which is in
existence at the time of said transfer of title to the
State of Maryland shall become the obligation of the
State of Maryland. SHOULD ANY SUCH AGREEMENT EXPIRE, OR