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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 68

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 73B — Pensions

Section 21(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 21(1) 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Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed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

21.

(1) "Municipal corporation" means county,
incorporated town or municipality or special taxing area
or other political subdivision of the State, including
any public library association or organization and any
fire department receiving part or all of its funds from
or through any such county, town, municipality, special
taxing area or other political subdivision of the State,
and also including any board or commission created by an
act of the General Assembly for public purpose and not
for the profit of any private person or corporation. The
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, a
cooperative library corporation, the Upper Potomac River
Commission, [and] the Tri-County Council for Western
Maryland, Inc. AND THE HEALTH PLANNING COUNCIL OF
APPALACHIA shall each be considered to be a municipal
corporation for the purpose of participation in the
Employees' Retirement System. If a municipal corporation
ceases to meet the definition of "municipal corporation"
by virtue of any public general or public local law, any
employee thereof who has been a member of the retirement
system may continue membership in the system at the
employee's election if the employer's contribution, as
required herein, continues to be made pursuant to this
article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 1, 1975.

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