3294                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [Ch. 752

more than one retirement system.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 65 - Militia

Section 88

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 88 of Article 65 - Militia, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 65 — Militia

88.

The rights and status of any person inducted into
the land or naval forces of the United States for
training and service pursuant to the act of Congress
known as the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940,
or any subsequent acts of a similar nature, and any
member of any reserve component of the land or naval
forces of the United States on active duty or service
within that period or ordered or assigned to active duty
or service within that period, as well as any person who,
within that period, enlists in the armed forces of the
United States, and who may be absent in military service
shall be as follows in any pension or retirement fund or
system under the laws of the State of Maryland, or of the
City of Baltimore or any other political subdivision of
this State, including the Teachers' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland: During the period of his absence,
no such person or his estate shall have any right or be
entitled to ordinary disability benefits, accidental
disability benefits, death benefits, optional allowances
or other disability or death benefits in any fund or
system. Any such person, during such absence except as
herein otherwise specified, shall retain his status and
rights as a member of any such pension or retirement fund
or system (a) if he does not withdraw any part of his
accumulated contributions, and (b) if within one year
from the time he is relieved from active duty or service
he shall be actively employed by the State of Maryland,
or any agency thereof, or by the City of Baltimore or any
other political subdivision of the State, and (c) if he
shall not have previously taken any other employment
except temporary employment after he has applied for
reemployment in his former classification or position in
the State service, he has been refused immediate