MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                2611

recognized testing agency to evaluate and make
recommendations concerning the qualifications of
prospective appointees.

(b)    [Said] THE commissioner shall receive [such] A
salary as may be provided in the annual Ordinance of
Estimates of Baltimore City, but in no event less than
$25,000[.00] per annum.

(c)    If a person appointed Police Commissioner is a
member of a retirement or pension system of the State of
Maryland or City of Baltimore, or any other municipality
within this State participating in the Employees'
Retirement System of the State of Maryland, he [shall
have] HAS the right to continue as a member of [such] THE
system with all the rights, privileges and benefits which
the members of [such] THE system [may] have as to
retirement or pension, or the payment of pension, or
other benefits, to his widow or other beneficiary,
provided he continues to pay the same rate of
contribution to [such] THE retirement system or pension
fund which he was paying when he became police
commissioner. If the person appointed Police
Commissioner is not a member of [such] a retirement
system, he may, at his option, become a member of the
Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System of the City
of Baltimore.

(d)    Before entering upon the duties of his office,
[said] THE commissioner shall take and subscribe to,
before a judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
or the clerk thereof, the oath or affirmation prescribed
by Section 6 of Article I of the Constitution of Maryland
and shall give bond to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore in [such] A form and in [such] AN amount as
[may be] determined [thereby] BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL.

(e)    [Said] THE Commissioner [shall be] IS subject
to removal by the [Governor] MAYOR for official
misconduct, malfeasance, inefficiency or incompetency,
including prolonged illness, in the manner provided by
law in the case of civil officers.

(f)    In case of death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification of the Commissioner, the
[Governor] MAYOR shall appoint a successor for the
remainder of the term so vacated.

(g)    The [said] Commissioner [shall] IS not [be]
eligible [to] FOR an elective or appointed office during
the term for which he was appointed, unless he resigns
six months prior to the primary election or appointment.

16-6.

The Police Commissioner may at any time, subject to
removal by him at his pleasure, designate some member of