BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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Article 88A — Social Services Administration

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[(e) Each of the twenty—three local departments in the
counties and the Baltimore City department of social
services shall pay to the Employees' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland annually an amount equal to twenty per
centum (20%) of the total amount which is required for that
year as the State's or employer's contributions to the
retirement system and the system operating under the
provisions of the Social Security Act of tie United States
for the employees of each county, respectively; and the
contributions by the State to the retirement system and the
system operating under the provisions of the Social Security
Act shall be accordingly reduced. These payments shall be
part of the administrative costs of the local departments in
the counties to be paid from funds derived from local
sources. If the ratio of administrative costs paid from
funds derived from local sources varies from time to time to
a percentage greater or less than twenty per centum (20%),
the payment by the county of a proportion of the
contribution to the retirement system and the system
operating under the provisions of the Social Security Act
shall be changed accordingly.

(f)    In consideration of the membership of the
employees of the department of social services of Baltimore
City in the employees' retirement system of the City of
Baltimore, there shall be included in the State budget each
year an appropriation item to reimburse the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore in an amount equal to eighty per centum

(80%) of the contribution of the City of Baltimore for that
year to the employees' retirement system of the City of
Baltimore for such positions in Baltimore City; but the
annual reimbursement by the State shall never exceed eighty
per centum (80%) of the amount which would be contributed
for that year by the State to. the Employees' Retirement
System of the State of Maryland for such positions if they
were included in the Employees* Retirement System of the
State of Maryland. If the ratio of administrative costs
paid from State and federal funds varies from time to time
to a percentage greater or less than eighty per centum

(80%), the payment by the State of a proportion of such
expense incurred by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall be changed accordingly.

(g)    There shall also be included in the State budget
each year an appropriation item to reimburse the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore in an amount equal to eighty per
centum (80%) of the total amount of money paid by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore for that year to obtain for
the employees of the department of social services of
Baltimore City the full benefits of the system operating
under the provisions of the Social Security Act. If the
ratio of administrative costs paid from State and federal
funds varies from time to time to a percentage greater or
less than eighty per centum (80%), the payment by the State