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LAVS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 65

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1(3) of Article 73B - Pensions, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume
and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 73B — Pensions

1.

(3) "Employee" 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
courts. Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Court of Appeals
of Maryland, Court of Special Appeals, and District
Courts, and any class of employees whose 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" 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